Google Earth aerial of a 700 foot tall massing model at 606 West 30th Street. We left out much of the Hudson Yards plan for clarity (too damn big); CityRealty
Manhattan development continues to move towards its last remaining pockets of waterfront areas. The former no man's land past Eleventh Avenue is now lucrative game for luxury development. Last week, Politico via The Real Deal reported that Jeffrey Levine’s Douglaston Development is positioning itself to build a two-building, 1.1-million-square-foot development at 606 West 30th Street in West Chelsea. The site is located directly west of their 2010-finished rental, Ohm, and south of Related/Oxford’s Hudson Yards. The site currently holds a gas station and several small industrial buildings. In November, we included the site in our round-up of new developements sweeping through West 29th Street.
Douglaston is looking to build a 62-story building with 990 units at 601 West 29th Street, and a 32-story mixed-use building at 606 West 30th Street with 206 units. Twenty percent of the 1,230 new apartments will be reserved as affordable housing. Similar to the air rights transfer approved for St. John's Center in the West Village/Hudson Square, Douglaston is looking to buy more than 150,000 square feet of air rights from the Hudson River Park Trust.
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The transfer will need to be approved by local City Councilmember Corey Johnson. One concern of the lot’s development is that is that the proposed Gateway Project would tunnel under the site. The City Planning Commission is scheduled to deliberate the scheme on May 17.
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Ondel Hylton
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