The limestone-clad, 15-story, mid-block, residential condominium building at 985 Park Avenue between 83rd and 84th Streets is nearing completion.

Its avenue facade is now nearly complete.

The building has been designed by Costas Kondylis for The Icon Group, which is headed by Michael Miller, who lives at 960 Park Avenue, Todd Cohen and Terrence Lowenberg. Its fenestration pattern is somewhat similar to that of the Gainsborough at 222 Central Park South, which was designed in 1908 by C. W. Buckham.

The Park Avenue views of St. Ignatius Loyola Roman Catholic Church across the avenue are very nice, albeit not as impressive as the Gainsborough's Central Park vistas, but they will not be from double-height living rooms. Although the windows give the appearance from the outside that there is one big double-height space behind them, there will actually be two floors.

French doors open onto narrow balconies on the lower floors of each unit facing the avenue.

The building, which abuts the building directly south of it but is separated by several feet from the building just to the north, will have 5 duplex and 2 triplex apartments.

Occupancy is anticipated for spring next year.

The garden triplex is priced at $6,750,000 and has three bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths, a library/4th bedroom with 2,903 square feet plus a 580-square-foot terrace, a 14-square-foot balcony and 57-square feet of storage space.

Three-bedroom-three-bath apartments with 2,469 square feet are priced from $5,300,000 to $5,700,000.

Geoffrey Bradfield is doing the interior designs.

The lobby will be attended 24 hours a day and the entrance doors are etched glass. Windowed kitchens have Poliform cabinetry with under-cabinet lighting, and stone countertops and backsplashes, SubZero refrigerators, Miele cooktops, speed ovens and dishwashers and expresso and cappuccino makers and Blanco sinks with Dornbracht fixtures. Windowed bathrooms have radiant heated floors and heated tower racks, fog-free mirrors, Kashmir onyx and Thassos inlaid borders, double vanities and Kohler "Tea for Two" tubs and separate showers.

Until the late 1970's, the small building formerly on the site was the home of the Florence Market, an upscale grocery store run by Anthony Tucciarone, who bought the building in 1948 and held onto it until his death in 2004. Since 1986, the ground floor was occupied by Portraits Inc., a well-known gallery with a distinctive green and gold sign whose walls were decked, according to Sam Knight in a May 23, 2004 article in New York Times, "with the visionary stares of chief executives and the soft smiles of their children."