Marketing has started for the 27-story residential condominium building under construction at 200 West End Avenue on the southeast corner at 70th Street.

The building will have 191 apartments, 27,000 square feet of retail space and a 76-car garage.

The developer is Clarett Capital LLC, a joint venture between the Clarett Group and Prudential Real Estate Investors and ING/Clarion.

The site is close to Donald Trump's recently completed residential towers along Riverside Boulevard and to recently announced new projects by Extell further south.

Occupancy is anticipated for early 2008.

Costas Kondylis & Partners is the architect. It has also designed many of the nearby towers along Riverside Boulevard for Donald Trump.

The Clarett Group's projects include the 55-story Sky House condominium tower under construction at 11 West 29th Street, Place 57, which is under construction at 207 East 57th Street, Chelsea House at 130 West 19th Street, 2770 Broadway, the Montrose at 308 East 38th Street, the Post Toscana at 389 East 89th Street and the Post Luminaria at 385 First Avenue.

The new building will have on-site valet parking, a bicycle room, private storage facilities, 24-hour concierge and hotel-style concierge service provided by Abigail Michaels.

It will also have a children's playroom designed by Peter Sis, a children's book author and illustrator, a wine tasting room designed in collaboration with Wine Enthusiast Magazine, a landscaped community terrace, and amenity spaces designed by Celerie Kemble.

Apartments have floor-to-ceiling windows and Brazilian Cabreuva hardwood flooring, washers and dryers, and kitchens have Shaker-style, white-oak cabinetry, Absolute Black granite countertops with Bianco Lasa marble backsplashes, Viking appliances, and master baths are clad with Bianco Verde marble and have walnut vanities and Waterworks fittings and Zuma tubs.

Alcove studios range in size from 597 to 637 square feet, one-bedroom units range in size from 699 to 968 square feet with a 300-square-foot terrace, two bedrooms range from 1,313 to 1,657 square feet and some have terraces ranging in size from 77 to 1,109 square feet, and three-bedroom units with 1,627 square feet and either 216- or 322-square feet of terrace space, and 3-bedroom penthouses with 1,763 or 2,256 square feet and 98 or 255 square feet of terrace space.

Initial pricing for alcove studios range from $655,000 to $751,000, one-bedroom units range in price from $865,000 to $1,199,000, two-bedroom units range in price from $1,525,000 to $2,275,000, and three-bedroom units start at about $2,624,000.