131-139 W 45th St - New Extell Development

**londonlawyer** · July 14th, 2007, 02:11 PM

Originally Posted by lofter1

In the last weeks a couple of storefronts on the west side of Eighth between 43rd / 44th have shuttered their doors (formerly souvenir / porn shops).

It will be interesting to see if this is the start of the clearing the northside of that block (which has been discussed as a tower development site) ...

One of the blocks on 8th that I desperately want to see developed is the stretch on the west side between 44th and 45th that houses two contiguous, short, dirty, brown brick P's OS that house, among other things, a Charlie O's pub. Also, there's an empty parking lot behind one of them that could make accomodating a decent-sized building easier. It's my understanding that some union owns both of these P's O S. I am not that eager to see the 43rd St. site redeveloped because some of those buildings, like the Playpen, are quite nice. There are also a bunch of horrible residential buildings in the 50's, like the Westerly, that have no character. I want to see them razed.

**Derek2k3** · September 8th, 2007, 01:26 PM

Permit says 55 stories, 599', 304,831 Sq. Ft.. SLCE are at the least architects of record. I'm hoping Extell hired some foreign architect for the design.

http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/Jo...hous=&allstrt=

**lofter1** · September 20th, 2007, 11:22 PM

The gang here was demo-ing like crazy today ...

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**lofter1** · January 23rd, 2008, 10:26 PM

Gary's gang have dug themselves a pool here ...

131 w 45

**BrooklynRider** · January 27th, 2008, 01:22 AM

Doesn't look very methodical.

**londonlawyer** · January 27th, 2008, 08:35 PM

The DOB website lists a stop-work order for this project. I assume that it will be the typical Extell garbage though there's a remote chance that Gershon will hire Holl to design a nice building.

**lofter1** · January 27th, 2008, 10:24 PM

DOB also shows that the SWO for this site has been RESOLVED -- which is undoubtedly why the crew was busy digging out the hole last week.

Applications still show Architect = SLCE

**londonlawyer** · January 27th, 2008, 10:28 PM

Thanks. I guess 366 11th Ave. is an anomaly, and Gershon remains cheap and Macklowe-esque.

**londonlawyer** · March 6th, 2008, 04:32 PM

Originally Posted by londonlawyer

The DOB website lists a stop-work order for this project....

Although the DOB still has a stop-work order posted on its website, I walked by on 3-6-08 and noted a lot of activity.

**econ_tim** · March 6th, 2008, 06:32 PM

it will be interesting to watch several large projects rise in this area. in addition to the hotel, there is the 40-storey diamond district tower on 45th and a 40-storey condo on 44th between, both between 5th and 6th. i think the condo project has finised excavation and moved on to foundation work, so maybe it will start rising soon. the diamond district tower still has move excavation to do, although the hole appears to be 4 storeys deep in parts.

**hey19932** · March 6th, 2008, 08:04 PM

I wish there were renderings for this one! I hope its glassy.

**Derek2k3** · July 5th, 2008, 11:11 AM

Notice it says 68 stories, not 55 as reported. Hard to judge its height in comparison to other towers from this model. It looks like it could be taller than the Americas Tower next door, which is 692'.

From the ESB, most of the view of tower will be blocked by the Bank of America Tower. The best place to see it rise into the skyline will probably be from Top of the Rock.

Taken yesterday.

A pretty deep hole.

**lofter1** · July 5th, 2008, 11:45 AM

I walked by this site on Thursday -- the perimeter of the foundation is nearly complete.

Same for TEN Arquitectos hotel project site on the block to the east, so they could rise in tandem

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