Alchemy Construction is planning a 334-foot-high mixed-use tower at 31 West 15th Street, according to an article by Jill Colvin today at DNAinfo.com.
Much of the space on the lower six floors will be used by Xavier High School, a Jesuit school for boys, which sold its air rights to Alchemy, the article said, adding that the remainder of the 25-story tower will be residential.
"With no street level setback and standing at 334 feet tall, these plans confirm our fears that this building will be three times the height of almost every other building in the neighborhood," a spokeswoman for the Lower Chelsea Alliance, a community group that formed to fight the plans, told DNAinfo.com.
The article said that "short of cutting off 15 stories, there is nothing that will make this building appropriate for the surrounding community," she said.
The building's zoning plans were approved earlier this month, a Department of Buildings spokeswoman said, and demolition is underway.
FXFowle is the architect for the project.
Much of the space on the lower six floors will be used by Xavier High School, a Jesuit school for boys, which sold its air rights to Alchemy, the article said, adding that the remainder of the 25-story tower will be residential.
"With no street level setback and standing at 334 feet tall, these plans confirm our fears that this building will be three times the height of almost every other building in the neighborhood," a spokeswoman for the Lower Chelsea Alliance, a community group that formed to fight the plans, told DNAinfo.com.
The article said that "short of cutting off 15 stories, there is nothing that will make this building appropriate for the surrounding community," she said.
The building's zoning plans were approved earlier this month, a Department of Buildings spokeswoman said, and demolition is underway.
FXFowle is the architect for the project.
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Since 1997, Carter B. Horsley has been the editorial director of CityRealty. He began his journalistic career at The New York Times in 1961 where he spent 26 years as a reporter specializing in real estate & architectural news. In 1987, he became the architecture critic and real estate editor of The New York Post.
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