Posted by Leonard Steinberg on July 28th, 2013 Here are my TOP 10 reasons why West Chelsea has only seen the BEGINNINGS of an upside that will only be fully realized in roughly 7-10 years: 1) A concentration of A-grade architecture that currently includes Jean Nouvel, Annabelle Selldorf, Frank Gehry, Neil Denari, Enrique Norten and… [Read More]
ZAHA HADID COMES TO WEST CHELSEA
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on July 16th, 2013 Zaha Hadid, the Pritzker-prize-winning architect is coming to West Chelsea: the 11-story condo building coming to 520 West 28th Street, developed by Related, is perched on a site that was actually quite limiting, according to Hadid, keeping her signature TWA-terminal-esque grand swooshes in check. With two wings of uneven heights,… [Read More]
500 WEST 21st STREET – WEST CHELSEA'S NEWEST ADDITION
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on June 30th, 2013 Renderings were just released for the new Sherwood Equities-developed building coming to the corner of 21st Street and Tenth Avenue in West Chelsea abutting The Highline Park, 500 West 21st Street: I am not certain if I love or loathe this building. Elements of it are somewhat… [Read More]
508 WEST 24th STREET: A BEAUTIFUL ADDITION TO WEST CHELSEA
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on June 22nd, 2013 The chic art gallery block on West 24th Street between 10th and 11th Avenues, home to Gagosian, is getting a swell new neighbor…….a facade rendering has now been revealed: Designed by Cary Tamarkin, the concrete and black steel windowed building is quite a looker and brackets the… [Read More]
LUKOIL SITE ON TENTH AVENUE SELLS
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on May 1st, 2013 The illustrious LUKOIL site at 239 Tenth Avenue at the corner of 24th Street in the heart of the West Chelsea Arts District has supposedly gone to contract after multiple bids…..and it appears the price was several million dollars over the asking of $ 18,95million. The site… [Read More]
AVENUES SCHOOL CRUISES INTO CELEBRITY STATUS!
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on August 3rd, 2012 At last AVENUE’S SCHOOL may now have that one element to get it the press it so richly deserves….a celebrity! Lets face it, without some sort of celebrity content or affiliation, the press is just not that interested anymore in our Kardashianesque world. The rumor is that… [Read More]
THE CALEDONIA SETS ANOTHER PRICING RECORD
Posted on June 13th, 2012 Matt Amico reports that another apartment has sold for a record price at The Caledonia, located at 450 West 17th Street, the full service, Taconic/Related-developed building in West Chelsea abutting the Highline Park. Closed for $ 5,35 million (that’s over $ 2,400/sf) this sale proves yet again how the high-floor mega-view… [Read More]
ONE HUDSON YARDS
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on May 29th, 2012 More exciting news from the West Side…..Another new building is being planned by Gary Barnett, developer of One 57, at the Hudson Yards, the mega development north of West Chelsea experiencing a revolution mostly because it will be connected to Times Square by the # 7 subway extension… [Read More]
NEW DIA ART MUSEUM COMING TO WEST CHELSEA’S WEST 22nd STREET
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on May 24th, 2012 DIA is about to launch an important new arts building in West Chelsea on West 22nd Street: Dia just bought the former Alcamo Marble building at 541 West 22nd Street in Chelsea for $11.5 million. That building sits between its former space at No. 545, and its existing… [Read More]
500 WEST 23rd STREET GETTING A CVS
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on May 9th, 2012 CVS is coming to the corner of Tenth Avenue and 23rd Street in the new Sam Zell rental building. This ends rumors that a Citarella was coming. While a CVS is certainly not a Citarella, I do think its addition to the neighborhood is extremely useful: Right… [Read More]