NY POST

CLINTON TO GET LUXURY HIGH-RISE

By LOIS WEISS

August 27, 2004 -- The group that just spent $675 million on the Plaza Hotel has scooped up the mid-block SIR Studios site for $43 million, where it intends to construct the first high-rise luxury condos in Clinton.

The site at 310 W. 52nd St. was bought by Miki Naftali's El-Ad Group from Vikram Chatwal's hospitality company. Chatwal combined the former SIR Studio with transferable development rights from his Howard Johnson Hotel so a larger and taller building can be constructed.

According to broker Eric Anton of Eastern Consolidated Properties who worked with partner Ron Solarz, Naftali sees the area filled with rentals as ripe for the luxury market.

"The building will have upscale amenities and wonderful views," said Anton.

oh, I thought you were talking about Hillary! and Whitewater immediately came to my mind! :lol:
they don't mention any height, do they?

Any renderings?

Nah, I don't know much about the project, it seems new, so no renderings or height mentions. I hate when they use the term "high-rise" because in NYC a highrise is supposed to be tall, in other places it could be 20 stories, so you never know.

It's 37 stories-

Check this out.
http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=208908

No renderings though

Emporis gets the lowdown quick dont it?

I hope the NIMBY's don't start crying foul against it as they always do. That would really suck. :bash:

Emporis gets the lowdown quick dont it?
Emporis seeeees you
wherever you gooooo :devil:
even right now it seeeees you

I dont deny it. I bet emporis is really the NSA.

You had to see the "Emporis World Conference 2003". The thing had such an evil atmosphere to it it was almost cliche. A bunch of maniacs (all of them, though, are like the most important people in the skyscraper survery field) sitting round a table in a skyscraper with a view of the city below, discussing plans of takeover.
By the way Emporis did dome more spying on this forum today too.

LeCom were you at the Fairleigh Dickinson University today? (nov. 9th)?

By the way Emporis did dome more spying on this forum today too.

Why? :dunno:

These are the same people whose skyline ranking has HK beating NYC by 110 thousand to 35 thousand points.

I may be going out on a limb here, but is HK's skyline that much better? OMG They're biased??....no way.... :D

I don't use skyscrapers.com (yep I'm still gonna type it in the old way :D ) unless I'm looking at what's up in NYC.

Where is emporis HQ'ed?

Rendering:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/500/2404image001.jpg

Website:

http://www.thelinknyc.com/

I'm interested. How much does the cheapest suite cost?(The website doesn't tell you).

I'm interested. How much does the cheapest suite cost?(The website doesn't tell you).

Try contacting them and asking:

http://www.thelinkny.com/welcome.htm

Or at info@thelinkny.com

Is it already u/c or is it still waiting for a final approval?

Is it already u/c or is it still waiting for a final approval?

Under construction, foundation work being done.

The building is looking quite huge these days! They are up to about 30 floors and the glass is being added on many of the lower floors as well. Weather has been optimal and they seem to be on schedule for Q1 of next year.

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r260/pianoman11686/NewYorkJanuary091.jpg