30 East 23rd Street (Icon Realty Management)
We’ve been wondering about the vacant 12-floor office building at 30 East 23rd Street for some time now. Now renderings posted on Icon Realty Management’s website show what’s in store for the slender Flatiron tower. The 25-foot-wide brick building, built the same year that the Titanic sank, seems remarkably out of place now that the upscale spires of One Madison Park and Madison Square Park Tower loom on either side of it. Its prime location catty-corner to Madison Square Park is within the city’s nebulous Silicon Alley area popular with tech tenants.
(CItyRealty)
According to The Real Deal, Extell acquired the 32,500-square-foot building in 2013 through the $450 million portfolio sale of F.M. Ring’s properties. Three years later, Extell sold the building to Icon for $26.5 million or $815 a foot. Now Icon is moving ahead with a major capital redevelopment program that they say will “provide the most desirable amenities required of today’s modern high-end work environments.”
New entrance and facade (Icon Realy Management)
New lobby and entrance designed by DXA Studio
Alteration permits were approved earlier this year and the marketing page shows the gut rehab entails a brand-new entrance and lobby designed by DXA Studio, a full elevator modernization program, new windows and a full cosmetic upgrade of the façade. The building enjoys three exposures and views over Madison Square Park. Additionally, there are column-free floorplates measuring 2,500 square feet apiece, 12-foot-high ceilings and higher, and tenant controlled HVAC.
Conceptual office layout (Icon)
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