Extell Development has created a website for the 3.2-acre lower section of its properties overlooking the Hudson River in the lower section of the Upper West Side.
It had acquired the lower half of Donald Trump's Riverside South project whose northern boundary is 72nd Street and has already completed several residential towers that are somewhat similar to those in the Trump section and has plans for a couple more. All those towers have been designed by Costas Kondylis. Extell's acquisition in 2005 consisted of the then undeveloped land from 59th to 65th Streets. In the past three years, Extell has completed The Avery condominium on 65th Street and is nearing completion of The Rushmore condominium at 64th Street. Construction started about a year ago on its next two buildings at 63rd Street and it is finishing its design for another tower at 62nd Street.
The Riverside Center section, which is bounded by 59th and 61st Streets, Riverside Boulevard and West End Avenue, will consist of five towers designed by Christian de Portzamparc and they are not conventionally shaped and some have angles and bumps and bulges. The original 1992 approved plan called for two residential buildings and a 1.8 million-square-foot television studio building and had no provision for publicly accessible open space and neighborhood amenities.
The new website maintains that "This transitional area, located between midtown and industrial uses across 59th Street and residential areas to the north and east of the site, presents an incredible opportunity to anchor Riverside South with neighborhood retail and amenities."
"Riverside Center will provide this thriving community with much-needed infrastructure, 3.2 acres of publicly accessible open space to connect area residents to the Hudson River Waterfront, and space for a public elementary school," it added.
The 8.2 acres of Riverside Center is now a parking lot but the website maintained that when completed it will "include 5 residential buildings with both market rate and affordable housing, 3.2 acres of open space with connections to Riverside Park and the Hudson River, neighborhood storefront retail, outdoor dining, a movie theater and an underground parking garage," adding that "Extell is working with the city to include a new public elementary school" that will have 97,000 square feet and "will be in one of the first buildings built on the new site."
With 39 percent publicly accessible open space, the site will have the same percentage of open space as Battery Park City and the landscape being designed by Matthews Nielsen "will continue the 60th Street corridor with interactive fountains and a thin scrim of water for all to enjoy."
It had acquired the lower half of Donald Trump's Riverside South project whose northern boundary is 72nd Street and has already completed several residential towers that are somewhat similar to those in the Trump section and has plans for a couple more. All those towers have been designed by Costas Kondylis. Extell's acquisition in 2005 consisted of the then undeveloped land from 59th to 65th Streets. In the past three years, Extell has completed The Avery condominium on 65th Street and is nearing completion of The Rushmore condominium at 64th Street. Construction started about a year ago on its next two buildings at 63rd Street and it is finishing its design for another tower at 62nd Street.
The Riverside Center section, which is bounded by 59th and 61st Streets, Riverside Boulevard and West End Avenue, will consist of five towers designed by Christian de Portzamparc and they are not conventionally shaped and some have angles and bumps and bulges. The original 1992 approved plan called for two residential buildings and a 1.8 million-square-foot television studio building and had no provision for publicly accessible open space and neighborhood amenities.
The new website maintains that "This transitional area, located between midtown and industrial uses across 59th Street and residential areas to the north and east of the site, presents an incredible opportunity to anchor Riverside South with neighborhood retail and amenities."
"Riverside Center will provide this thriving community with much-needed infrastructure, 3.2 acres of publicly accessible open space to connect area residents to the Hudson River Waterfront, and space for a public elementary school," it added.
The 8.2 acres of Riverside Center is now a parking lot but the website maintained that when completed it will "include 5 residential buildings with both market rate and affordable housing, 3.2 acres of open space with connections to Riverside Park and the Hudson River, neighborhood storefront retail, outdoor dining, a movie theater and an underground parking garage," adding that "Extell is working with the city to include a new public elementary school" that will have 97,000 square feet and "will be in one of the first buildings built on the new site."
With 39 percent publicly accessible open space, the site will have the same percentage of open space as Battery Park City and the landscape being designed by Matthews Nielsen "will continue the 60th Street corridor with interactive fountains and a thin scrim of water for all to enjoy."
Architecture Critic
Carter Horsley
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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