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January 17th, 2005, 07:10 PM
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NY Daily News
Plan luxury condos near Ground Zero
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Artist's rendering of 30-story tower and seven-story companion building at 200 Chambers St. to house 260 luxury condos.
Here's a first look at a rare Tribeca South high-rise development - which will start coming out of the ground very soon.
It will be an elegant 30-story tower with a seven-story companion building, as a rendering by Costas Kondylis' architecture firm shows. It will house 260 luxury condos.
Developer Scott Resnick has cleared the site - a parking lot at West, Chambers and Warren streets next to PS 234. Construction will begin Feb. 1, and is to be finished in fall 2006, Resnick told the Daily News.
The development - three blocks north of Ground Zero - will use 200 Chambers St. as its address.
The property was a city urban-renewal site known as Site 5C. For two decades, area residents successfully opposed plans there for big projects, saying that they'd overwhelm the surrounding low-rise neighborhood.
Last fall, a compromise was reached, as The News first reported, in negotiations between Community Board 1 chairwoman Madelyn Wils and City Councilman Alan Gerson (D-Manhattan), on behalf of community residents, and Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff.
They agreed that the height of the building will be cut to 30 stories. Originally it was to be 40 floors tall, then 36 stories.
They agreed that the property will have an Olympic-size swimming pool in a community center, and a pre-K and kindergarten feeder school for PS 234.
"I and my family are so proud to have come this far," said Resnick, who has devoted five years to the project. "Everybody wins."
Initially, celebrity architect Sir Norman Foster was involved in its design. But last summer, Lord Foster - whose London office tower for Swiss Re is nicknamed "the Erotic Gherkin" - quit the project. Kondylis, who'd been collaborating with Lord Foster, took charge.
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NY Daily News
Plan luxury condos near Ground Zero
http://www.nydailynews.com/ips_rich_content/470-realestate.JPG
Artist's rendering of 30-story tower and seven-story companion building at 200 Chambers St. to house 260 luxury condos.
Here's a first look at a rare Tribeca South high-rise development - which will start coming out of the ground very soon.
It will be an elegant 30-story tower with a seven-story companion building, as a rendering by Costas Kondylis' architecture firm shows. It will house 260 luxury condos.
Developer Scott Resnick has cleared the site - a parking lot at West, Chambers and Warren streets next to PS 234. Construction will begin Feb. 1, and is to be finished in fall 2006, Resnick told the Daily News.
The development - three blocks north of Ground Zero - will use 200 Chambers St. as its address.
The property was a city urban-renewal site known as Site 5C. For two decades, area residents successfully opposed plans there for big projects, saying that they'd overwhelm the surrounding low-rise neighborhood.
Last fall, a compromise was reached, as The News first reported, in negotiations between Community Board 1 chairwoman Madelyn Wils and City Councilman Alan Gerson (D-Manhattan), on behalf of community residents, and Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff.
They agreed that the height of the building will be cut to 30 stories. Originally it was to be 40 floors tall, then 36 stories.
They agreed that the property will have an Olympic-size swimming pool in a community center, and a pre-K and kindergarten feeder school for PS 234.
"I and my family are so proud to have come this far," said Resnick, who has devoted five years to the project. "Everybody wins."
Initially, celebrity architect Sir Norman Foster was involved in its design. But last summer, Lord Foster - whose London office tower for Swiss Re is nicknamed "the Erotic Gherkin" - quit the project. Kondylis, who'd been collaborating with Lord Foster, took charge.
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