Permits have been filed for a four-story residential building at 368 Leonard Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Located between Meeker Avenue and Withers Street, the lot is near the Metropolitan Avenue-Lorimer Street subway station, serviced by the G and L trains. David Halberstam of Bruklyn Builders Inc. is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Construction has topped out and façade work is underway on 15 Beckman Street, Pace University’s 27-story campus expansion in the Financial District. Designed by Manish Chadha of Ismael Leyva Architects and developed by SL Green Realty, the 338-foot-tall tower will yield 213,084 square feet with classrooms, dorm rooms, a dining facility, library, and a learning center. New Line Structures & Development is the general contractor for the property, which is alternately addressed as 126-132 Nassau Street and is located at the corner of Beekman and Nassau Streets.
Exterior work is progressing on 139 Bowery, a 14-story mixed-use building in the Bowery section of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Designed by Raymond Chan Architects and developed by Global Joint Venture, the structure will yield 16 residential units as well as ground-floor retail space, a 550-square-foot medical facility, and office space on floors two through five. Mandarin Enterprises is the general contractor for the property, which is located on a relatively narrow plot between Broome and Grand Streets.
Demolition permits have been filed for two single-story commercial buildings at 53-55 Avenue D in Manhattan’s East Village. The 5,054-square-foot lot is owned by Manny Ashourzadeh, under the Rash LLC.
On the 21st anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the final component of the rebuilt 16-acre World Trade Center site is coming to a close as work nears completion on the Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center, a new performance hall in the Financial District. Designed by REX with Davis Brody Bond Architects as the executive architect and developed by The Perelman, the 138-foot-tall structure stands on a plot bound by Vesey Street to the north, Fulton Street to the south, Greenwich Street to the east, and Skidmore Owings & Merrill‘s One World Trade Center to the west.
