Barclay Tower @ 10 Barclay Street - by Costas Kondylis

[NoyokA]

nothing special about any of these buildings.

[Rich Battista]

well the DGA building does look quite intricate and should turn out to be one of the better constructions of the past few years, just as long as they keep the plans they have as of now. 9-12 Barclay should be another interesting building that will pop up downtown, i cannot wait.


CAN ANYONE PLEASE GIVE US HEIGHT ESTIMATES!!!!!!!!

800 sixth looks like nothing really that special, i would guess 400 to 550 feet.

DGA looks to be quite tall, allthough cannot guess from the surrounding buildings. I am going to say 500-750.

[zilla]

http://www.aiany.org/designawards/20...t/254_proj.htm

[Evan]

Great picture. *When is it getting built?

[Derek2k3]

800 Sixth Avenue is now under construction and the buildings at 9-12 Barclay are being demolished for the ~60 story tower.

[NoyokA]

There is more activity Downtown now, post 9-11, than the last decade total.

[JerzDevl2000]

Loved this thread - but it seems that the links to the pictures of the proposals/construction don't work anymore. Any way we can get these back up? These are pretty cool projects!

[web dvd guy]

Hi, I'm the owner of orthographics. I did some work (non-architectural) for Costas Kondylis & Partners and those pdf's are pretty old. There are some more recent images on the Kondylis website so feel free to check them out.

[Gulcrapek]

Where on the site?

[NyC MaNiAc]

I am very excited about 9-12 barclay street, actually. Downtown needs to see this kind of construction to get back on track...this is a good, first step.

[billyblancoNYC]

800 6th in 6th and what street?

[Derek2k3]

between 27th and 28th Streets


It's 6-12 Barclay by the way, I made a mistake.

[billyblancoNYC]

Thanks. *It'll be a nice addition to that booming corridor. *It's a shame about the flower market, though. *That was nice to walk through.

I hope they find one large, central location to relocate to. *It would be a real shame if all those businesses had to move to Jersey.

[NyC MaNiAc]

Quote: from billyblancoNYC on 3:42 pm on April 28, 2003
Thanks. *It'll be a nice addition to that booming corridor. *It's a shame about the flower market, though. *That was nice to walk through.

I hope they find one large, central location to relocate to. *It would be a real shame if all those businesses had to move to Jersey.

That would be *very* harmful to Lower Manhattan. Let's hope Downtown can get back on it's feet and go ahead with business as usual.

[NoyokA]

NEW SKYLINE TO RISE AROUND WOOLWORTH

By LOIS WEISS
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July 23, 2003 -- DOWNTOWN's historic Woolworth Building will get an equally tall neighbor when a roughly 50-story residential tower rises at nearby 10 Barclay St.
Glenwood Management had been planning the tower, near St. Peter's Church, since 2000. It was nearly ready with air rights and other agreements in place when the area was devastated on Sept. 11 and residents fled downtown.

Now, with politicians pushing to create more housing and renters raring to watch Larry Silverstein's "Freedom Tower" rise above ground zero, financing is on the way to jump-start nearby residential projects.

Originally planned at about 300,000 square feet, 10 Barclay's design is still getting tweaked by architect Costas Kondylis. It has a budget of around $135 million and is among nine projects now seeking Liberty Bond financing.

The first five projects approved will be subject to the new 20 percent affordable housing component, so people making $50,000 to $85,000 - such as firefighters, police and teachers - would be eligible for the apartments.

Will the builders hold back on their applications to the city's Housing Development Corp. to let competitors contend with the 20 percent affordable housing component?

"We're pushing for our project as fast as we can," said one developer. "We love [80 percent market rate/20 percent affordable] projects.


"The [downtown] community knew these projects would not work as 80/20s without extra subsidies, and they promised us they would come up with more - and they did."

Along with 10 Barclay St., the residential rental projects in line for the Liberty Bonds now include $90 million for Brack Realty Capital's saving of the landmarked historic, Cass Gilbert terra cotta building at 90 West St., which was burned on Sept. 11, 2001; $140 million for Jack Parker Organization's project on the Ponte properties at 273-279 West St.; $200 million for the Jack Resnick & Sons project at Chambers St.; $114 million for the Manocherian family's long-litigated vacant parcel at 15 William St.; $140 million for Metro's conversion of the former Brown Brothers Harriman offices at 63 Wall St.; $145 million for Witkoff to convert the Goldman Sachs office at 10 Hanover St.; $45 million for Cammeby's International to create a small project at 5 Beekman St.; and $80 million for Witkoff and Cammeby's to convert the top portion of the landmarked Cass Gilbert-designed Woolworth Building.