Extell Inches Forward with Hotel at Antiques Garage Site

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

Extell Believes! Plans 112 New Condos

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

Marc Shaw Leaves Extell for Albany

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 hear Read More

Extell Plans 15-Story Apartment Building on West 20th

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

Extell ‘Earning Goodwill’ by Nixing West Side Costco

Extell Development has dropped its push to bring Costco to its planned "Riverside Center" site on the Upper West Side, part of the larger Riverside South development by the West Side Highway.

The developer told elected officials this morning that the planned store was off the table, dropping a controversial element of their plan, which Read More

Remember Trump City?

It’s been 23 years since the Upper West Side first gasped at Donald Trump’s plans for a series of soaring towers that would contain 7,600 apartments and a 150-story headquarters for NBC on the 75-acre Penn Central rail yards.

The battle that followed was an epic one—Mr. Trump this week recalled Read More