DAB Investments recently completed a top-down restoration and condominium conversion at 51 White Street, an 1850s-era cast-iron building in Manhattan’s Tribeca Historic District. Scope of work included a commercial-to-residential conversion, an extensive façade restoration, a new mezzanine level, and a two-level expansion above the fifth floor.
Exterior work is progressing on Olympia, a 26-story residential building at 30 Front Street in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Designed by Hill West Architects and developed by Fortis Property Group with Workstead leading the interior design, the 401-foot-tall structure will yield 76 condominiums marketed by Fredrik Eklund and John Gomes of the Eklund Gomes Team at Douglas Elliman and Karen Heyman at Sotheby’s. Urban Atelier Group is managing construction, Manhattan Concrete created the reinforced concrete superstructure, and King Contacting Group is in charge of the CMU work, exterior insulation finish systems, and roofing for the project, which is bound by Front Street to the north, Washington Street to the east, and York Street to the south.
This week, C3D Architecture unveiled a trio of new renderings for 618 Pavonia Avenue, a 27-story mixed-use tower in Jersey City. Now under construction, the tower will join Homestead Place, a seven-building master development from Namdar Group that will eventually comprise over 2.1 million square feet, one of the largest ongoing construction projects in the city.
Permits have been filed for an 11-story mixed-use building at 11 Ocean Parkway in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn. Located between Coney Island Avenue and East 8th Street, the interior lot is one block east of the Fort Hamilton Parkway subway station, serviced by the F and G trains. Morris Jerome of JEMB Realty is listed as the owner behind the applications.
The proposed two-skyscraper development River Ring, designed by Bjarke Ingels Group and developed by Two Trees Management, is closer to fruition after Community Board 1 approval. The 3.5-acre project would bring 1,050 homes with 263 affordable housing units, a six-acre circular waterfront park designed by James Corner Field Operations, a YMCA community facility, 2,000 construction jobs, and more than 500 permanent jobs to the Brooklyn waterfront in Williamsburg.
