There’s a rule of thumb that applies to the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission: The agency shouldn’t try to designate a building a landmark against its owner’s will unless the commission’s ready for a loud public skirmish. And, generally in the Bloomberg administration, the commission has steered clear of such battles, making for relatively few such Read More
Extell Development chief Gary Barnett continues to pump projects into the development pipeline, economic concerns apparently no more than a vague nagging feeling at the back of his mind.
On June 26, Extell filed plans to build a 24-story, 175-unit hotel at 30 West 46th Street, just a block over from Mr. Read More
The developer that in 2006 bought the site of the longstanding flea market known as the Antiques Garage for $42.7 million has filed plans with the city to build a hotel.
On June 16, Extell filed plans with the Department of Buildings for a 233,544-square-foot, 29-story hotel at 112 West 25th Street. The site is Read More
Gary Barnett still believes in the New York City condo market.
On April 3, Mr. Barnett’s Extell Development filed plans with the city for a 13-story, 54-unit residential building at 147 West 21st Street. Then, on April 8, Extell filed plans for an 18-story, 58-unit building at 225 West 58th Street.
The moves demonstrate a Read More
Extell‘s Gary Barnett sure is keeping himself busy.
Last week, he disseminated nothing less than a manifesto to rescue the economy, and today, he filed plans with the Buildings Department for an 830,000-square-foot, Costas Kondylis-designed tower for the empty crater at 157 West 57th Read More
Long in the planning stages, Gary Barnett and his Extell Development Co. have finally let loose images of Riverside Center, their planned 3.3 million-square-foot mostly residential complex at the base of the West Side development once known as Trump City. The Department of City Planning put on its Web site today an environmental Read More
Marc Shaw, a former deputy mayor in the Bloomberg administration and now a vice president at Gary Barnett’s Extell Development, is headed to work for Governor Paterson. The Paterson administration announced this afternoon that Mr. Shaw had been appointed as an adviser to the governor for a six-month period.
We’re waiting to Read More
Gary Barnett and his Extell Development Co. are plowing forward with their plans for five new glass towers at the base of the Riverside South mega-development on the Upper West Side, and the company now says it plans to kick off early public review in December.
The plan, presented at an Upper West Read More
Gary Barnett’s Extell Development Co. is seeking to build a 15-story apartment tower on West 20th Street, a planned project that will be heard by the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission tomorrow.
The site, 19-25 West 20th Street, is in the Ladies’ Mile Historic District, and any new construction would need consent of the commission. The Read More
