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21 Water Street – Sag Harbor New York, New York
During 2008 an international development group failed to complete the construction of 25 super luxury loft condominiums facing the Long Island Sound in Sag Harbor. Amalgamated Bank, an investor and lender, was forced into a foreclosure preceeding. During the preceeding, the building sustained substantial weather damage and deterioration. WQB Architecture was hired by Amalgamated to restructure the project, complete construction, cure code and construction deficiencies and work with Barry Brown Construction to remarket the condominiums. Construction and sales will restart in the Summer of 2012 and should be complete in Second Quarter 2013.
8, 10 & 12, 14 E 92nd Street New York, New York
WQB Architecture provided an architectural design and project management services for the redevelopment of 4 historic brown stones in Carnegie Hill as 3 luxury cooperative buildings and a private home. Design work included redesign of all apartments, roof top penthouse, additional new facades and public spaces. WQB was a partner in the project and assisted the investors in all aspects of the project development. Many of the original coop purchasers still live in the building.
Fifth on the Park New York, New York
Designed with FxFowle Architects for Uptown Partners, Fifth on the Park is a 28‐story mixed-use building located on Fifth Avenue at Mt. Morris Park in Harlem. The building has 200 luxury condominium units, 50 apartments, and a full amenity package including a gym and swimming pool. At street level is a 2,000 seat sanctuary designed for a local church, and a 200‐space parking garage. The feasibility of the building was supported by a 421‐a tax abatement from the City of New York HPD. The building was completed in 2010.
380 Lenox Avenue New York, New York
380 Lenox is the first privately funded luxury condominium building in Harlem, built by Uptown Partners at the corner of 129th Street and Lenox Avenue. The units, 77 in all, are both one and two‐stories, and more than one third come with generous private terraces overlooking the street. 11,000 square feet of retail space lines the sidewalk, and underground is an 88‐car parking garage. The building is designed to fit in with the large classically styled masonry buildings lining the avenue, as well as the landmarked Astor Row buildings on 130th Street. The project was featured in an article in the New York Sun in August 2006. The feasibility of the building was supported by a 421‐a tax abatement from the City of New York HPD. Construction is complete and units are sold.
635 West 42nd Street NY, New York
Although West 42nd Street is one of the busiest streets in Manhattan, the blocks west of Tenth Avenue were never rezoned from their historic status as a Manufacturing District related to the docks along the Hudson River. As new development moved through Times Square westerly to the Hudson new zoning was required to incentivize development in the area. A team was organized by the original owners of the block from Eleventh to Twelfth Avenue to negotiate with the City Planning Commission, Community Board 4, and various other agencies to change the area from a low-density manufacturing district to a high rise mixed-use community. IDA (with WQB Architecture) worked with Howard Zipser of Stadtmauer Bailkin LLP to change the zoning and subsequently with Newmark Realty to resell the property for development. The property was recently completed by the Moinian Group and named The Atelier, a 50‐story luxury condominium.
Manhattan West New York, New York
Manhattan West (in red above) is a 17‐story affordable rental building between 10th and 11th Ave. and 55th and 56th St. The building was designed in response to an RFP issued by the City of New York. The project strategy was to design a larger building than the RFP requested and to spend the extra rental income on better building materials and finishes than competing teams offered. This bold strategy required WQB and their collaborator, the firm of Rothzeid Kaiserman Thomson & Bee, to prove that their design would fit the scale of its surroundings. The solution was an“I” shaped design, with a six-story street wall continuous with the Potemkin building(in light-blue above), and a midsection that spans the block and matches the height of some neighboring 17‐story apartment towers. The Kretchmer Companies, ELH MGMT, and the Dermot Company were the developers. The design was submitted in 2007 and has yet to be awarded.
Boymelgreen Development Carroll Gardens Brooklyn, New York
WQB Architecture worked with Langan Engineeringtodetermine how to maximize available benefits from “Brownfields” programs to redevelop a section of Carroll Gardens on the Gowanus Canal into a new community. WQB also combined the “Brownfields” programs with HPD Programs – New HOP and 80/20 ‐ to determine the best means for financing and redevelopment of the area.
Hyatt Regency Cabarete Cabarete, Dominican Republic
Cabarete, located on the Atlantic Coast of the Dominican Republic, has been known for years as one of the top 3 windsurfing spots in the world. An international development team has purchased a mile of pristine beach called The Miracle Mile for construction of 400 condominiums, a shopping village, and a 300 key full service Hyatt Regency Resort. The resort will feature 260 rooms and suites and 40 timeshare condominiums as well as a 15,000sf banquet/conference center with full corporate services, a Hyatt Signature Spa, Camp Hyatt, and a full complement of sports facilities and restaurant venues. As the only full service facility in Cabarete, the Hyatt is expected to be the home of major sporting events, corporate meetings, weddings and family vacations for years to come.
Manhattan Hotel and Condominium Prishtina, Kosova
This new hotel and condominium in Prishtina, Kosovo, scheduled to begin construction in 2008, will be one of the first towers to grace the skyline of this newly independent country. The building will feature 85 condominium units (1,2,3 bedrooms, and penthouses), 72 hotel rooms, and amenities including a lobby bar, sports bar, retail, spa, fitness center, indoor/outdoor pool, daycare facility, conference centers, banquet room, and a rooftop bar and restaurant. Mr. Brothers will be working with the developer, a Kosovar businessman with years of experience in New York City, to help set the standard for building luxury hotels and residences throughout the country.