Date: 12/3/2005 10:40:01 AM Eastern Standard Time
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Extell's Broadway towers. 25-OCT-05
Renderings of the two condominiuim apartment towers that Extell Development Company has begun constructing facing one another on Broadway between 99th and 100th Streets indicate that they are very dissimilar.
The projects are known as Ariel East and Ariel West. Extell names it projects after stars.
Ariel East is a 37-story, 64-unit tower at 2628 Broadway designed by Cetra/Ruddy Incorporated and it features 7 setbacks facing Broadway and many corner windows.
Ariel West is a 31-story, 73-unit tower at 245 West 99th Street and 2633 Broadway designed by Cook & Fox and it has few setbacks and its slab from recalls that of 30 Rockefeller Plaza. It is a mid-block site that was formerly occupied by a Gristede's store that collapsed during demolition injuring several pedestrians.
The two towers will significantly alter the northern skyline of the Upper West Side that heretofore has been dominated by the Riverside Church at 120th Street and Riverside Drive, the Master Apartments on Riverside Drive at 103rd Street and the Columbia Apartments at 275 West 96th Street.
Gary Barnett, a principal of Extell, was a principal in the recent purchase of a large property at the southern end of Riverside South, the huge development by Donald Trump.
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1 comment:
Talk about non-contextual!
And to think Bloomberg and his billionaire friends went virtually unopposed in this election!
This section of NY is carpeted with small service oriented housing facilities for the mentally ill, the formerly homeless and people who desperately need gov't help with life's needs. The service agencies provided customized care that cannot be duplicated in larger (non-existant) institutions.
So how long will it take Extell to start ridding the community of these facilities when they gentrify (ie "sanitize") the West Side?
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