PWV Acquisitions, of which Joseph Chetrit of the Chetrit Group and Laurence Gluck of Stellar Management, are principals, bought the Park West Village residential complex between 97th and 100th Streets west of Central Park West in 2000 and in 2007 disclosed plans to add five more residential buildings with about 710 apartments on the complex's western edge.

Park West Village had been erected in 1961 and designed by S. J. Kessler & Sons and consisted of seven red-brick slab buildings, four of which were condominium and three rental.

The new buildings that are clustered mostly about Columbus Avenue are known as Columbus Village. They are all set back on two-story bases, and four will be on Columbus Avenue and one on Amsterdam Avenue.

The first of the new buildings is 808 Columbus Avenue and Whole Foods is a major retail tenant. The building is 30 stories high, a dozen or so stories taller than the existing residential buildings in the complex and it will have a garage.

According to the Department of Buildings, Costas Kondylis & Partners is the architect for 808 Columbus Avenue, which has 359 apartments, and for three other new buildings across the avenue, a 12-story building with 56 apartments at 775 Columbus Avenue on the northeast corner at 97th Street, a 15-story building with 132 apartments at 795 Columbus Avenue between 98th and 99th Streets, and a 14-story building with 63 apartments at 805 Columbus Avenue on the southeast corner at 100th Street.

The fifth new building is a 15-story building with 100 apartments at 801 Amsterdam Avenue at 100th Street. It is being designed by SCLE.

The buildings were planned for completion in late 2008.

Whereas the balconied buildings of the original complex were typical "towers-in-a-park" structures of similar size and shape, the new buildings differ in height, fa??ade treatment and color and they have setbacks and corner windows.

The new buildings have a unified architecture style on Columbus Avenue and represent another substantial transformation of that area, which is not far from two taller residential towers nearing completion by Extell Development on Broadway between 99th and 100th Streets.

The new buildings on the east side of Columbus Avenue have covered walkways between them to provide easy access to the avenue from the rest of the complex to the east. The covered walkways also serve to create a continuous two-story high building wall between 97th and 100th Streets on that side of the avenue.

There are subway stations nearby on 96th Street and Central Park West and Broadway and there is good cross-town bus service on 96th Street.