RESIDENTIAL

steinway tower (Est. Compl. 2022)

Address: 111 West 57th Street, New York, NY
Project Type: Residential Development
Architect: Shop Architects
Developer: JDS Development Group

Project Summary: 111 West 57th Street, also known as the Steinway Tower, is an 82-story, 1,428-foot (435 meter) supertall residential project. Located along Billionaire’s Row on 57th Street near Sixth Avenue, the development consists of the original landmarked Steinway Building designed in 1925, and a new tower. When completed, the tower will be one of the tallest buildings in the United States, as well as the thinnest skyscraper in the world.

DIME SAVINGS BANK BUILDING (Est. Compl. 2022)

Address: 9 Dekalb Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Project Type:Residential Development
Architect: Shop Architects
Developer: JDS Development Group

Project Summary: The building will include approximately 150 condominiums and 425 apartments. The residences will encompass roughly 466,000 square feet (43,300m2). There will be 140,000 square feet (13,000 m2) of commercial space, and the Dime Savings Bank will e converted to upscale retail and possibly an entrance to the new building. The fifth floor will include an outdoor terrace.

625 Driggs Avenue (Est. Compl. TBD)

Address: 625 Driggs Avenue, Brooklyn NY
Project Type: New Mixed-Use Building
Architect: Morris Adjmi Architects
Developer: RedSky Capital, LLC

Project Summary: A six-story, 19-unit mixed-use building located on the corner of North 4th Street in northern Williamsburg. The project would encompass 35,432 square feet and rise 73 feet to its rooftop. The building will feature 2,839 square feet of retail space on the ground floor, followed by a 16-car parking garage on the second floor. Residential units will be located across the third through sixth floors and should average 796 square feet apiece.

Address: 658 Driggs Avenue, Brooklyn NY
Project Type: New Mixed-Use Building
Architect: Morris Adjmi Architects
Developer: RedSky Capital, LLC

Project Summary: five-story, 20-unit mixed-use project, located on the corner of Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg. The new building will measure 26,826 square feet and rise 60 feet to its rooftop.Residential units will spread across the second through fifth floors. The apartments will average 744 square feet apiece, indicative of rentals. There would also be 4,088 square feet of ground-floor retail space.

HOSPITALITY

MARGARITAVILLE HOTEL AND RESORT, TIMES SQUARE, NEW YORK, NY, (Compl. 2021)

Address: 207 West 40th Street, New York, NY
Project Type: Hotel
Architect: Stonehill Taylor
Developer: SOHO Properties

Project Summary: Jimmy Buffet brings the Caribbean lifestye to NYC Time Square. The 29 story, 300 Million dollar project brings all of this lifestyle into one building, allowing for a complete immersion in the perfect escape from New York’s hustle and bustle, without the need for travel. As a destination-style hotel and resort, it offers a wide variety of activities in addition to the rooms, such as numerous bars, restaurants, public spaces and a swimming pool. A notable feature is the suspended airplane hanging from the ceiling. Margaritaville is the first hotel in NYC to open during the Covid-19 Pandemic.

City Club of New York (Est. Compl. 2021)

Address: 55 West 44th Street, New York, NY
Project Type: Hotel Vertical Enlargement
Architect: Stonehill Taylor
Developer: City Club Hotel

Project Summary: City Club Hotel pampers guests with genuine comfort and luxury, offering a subtly chic sanctuary yet also easy proximity to Times Square, the theater district, and Fifth Avenue’s finest jewelry and boutiques stores. City Club Hotel, once a stately private political club, has been reborn as a small luxury hotel, epitomizing personal service, a central location, and the feeling on check-in that you’ve come home.

COMMERICAL

Former Tribeca Film Festival Building (Compl. 2020)

Address: 13 Laight Street, New York, NY
Project Type: Conversion to Class A Office
Architect: ​Gensler Architects
Developer: ​Vanbarton Group

Project Summary: The former home of the Tribeca Film Festival is moving ahead with plans to convert the 100,000 square foot building into boutique offices. The building will be a “rare opportunity for a tenant to potentially occupy an entire building or floor with direct elevator access, private lobby branding and an intimate work environment” in one of Manhattan’s most sought-after neighborhoods.

437 Madison avenue (ongoing capital improvement)

Address: 437 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
Project Type: Existing Class A Office Building
Property Management: Sage Realty

Project Summary: A Class A office building, 437 Madison Avenue was built in 1967, with 850,000 square feet of prime commercial office space. A $60 million dollar capital improvement program has completely transformed the building, featuring fully modern environments, including a redesigned lobby and plaza area, upgraded interior corridors and bathrooms, new building systems and mechanicals, and restored exteriors, among other improvements.

HEALTHCARE

Bellevue Hospital medical Center (COVID-19 PANDEMIC OF 2020-2021 - emergency response filings)

Address: 462 First Avenue, New York, NY
Project Type: Healthcare

Project Summary: Bellevue Hospital is one of the oldest and largest hospitals in the United States. It handles nearly 460,000 non-ER outpatient clinic visits, nearly 106,000 emergency visits and some 30,000 in-patients each year. MBE team was hired in May 2020 to help strategize filings with relation to the Covid-19 pandemic. We worked on initial emergency response filing as well as the sequencing of post- Covid-19 filings with renovating and relocating multiple floors of in-patient/out-patient and surgical wards.

REDEVELOPMENT

FULTON STREET REDEVELOPMENT

Address: 547-589 FULTON ST., BROOKLYN, NY
Project Type: DEMOLTION/SITE REDEVELOPMENT
Developer: RedSky Capital

Project Summary: After more than two years of dealmaking, RedSky Capital assembled the Downtown Brooklyn redevelopment site. All existing properties are low-rise, mixed-use buildings that have a retail component. RedSky will build a single structure exceeding 500,000 square feet.

430 East 58th Street a/k/a 3 Sutton Place (Est. Compl. 2021)

Address: 430 East 58th Street, New York, NY
Project Type: New Development - Luxury Condominium
Architect: Stephen B. Jacobs Group
Developer: Gamma Real Estate

Project Summary: After several years of legal battles between developers involved with the project, construction on 430 East 58th Street, aka 3 Sutton Place, is finally now rising above street level. The residences “will offer some of the finest views in Manhattan.” The tower will be 65 stories tall. Its 121 units will be spread across 300,000 square feet.

american copper building, New york, ny

Address: 626 1st Avenue, NY
Project Type: New Development, Luxury Condominium
Architect: SHoP Architects
Developer: JDS Development

Project Summary: This remarkable pair of copper-clad luxury residential towers, notably linked by a skybridge, add a unique appearance to the eastern skyline of NYC. The total amount of square footage is 840,000 sq. ft., with 761 residential units. The skybridge contain a hot tub and swimming pool. The west tower is 540 ft. in height, the east tower is 470 ft. in height.

53 huron street, brooklyn (Est. Compl. 2023)

Address: 53 Huron Street, Brooklyn, NY
Project Type: New Development, Luxury Condominium
Architect: Morris Adjmi
Developer: Quadrum

Project Summary: 53 Huron Street is a waterfront property consisting of two 13-story luxury condominiums. The buildings are equipped to include parking and retail establishments on the First Floor. This development encompasses over 177,000 square feet, having 173 residential units.

Marriott Renaissance Hotel & Apartment Tower (Est. Compl. 2022)

Address: 228-238 West 125th Street, New York, NY
Project Type: New Hotel and Residential Development
Architect: Aufgang Architects
Developer: Lam Group

Project Summary: Planned within the 417,366 square foot, two winged project are 211rental apartments, of which 50% will be offered at “affordable” rents to middle and low income households; a 210-key Renaissance Marriott Hotel; 30,000 square feet of retail; 25,000 square feet of art and cultural institution space and a 60-car parking garage. The tower will be the first hotel built in Harlem in nearly 85 years and will be topped by a rooftop bar with spectacular views over the neighborhood to Central Park and the Midtown Skyline.

virgin hotel (EST. completion date 2021)

Address: 1227 Broadway, New York, NY
Project Type: Hotel
Architect: Stantec
Developer: Lam Group

Project Summary: As NoMad flourishes as a hot spot for hospitality, dining and nightlife, Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group combined all three with a four-star Virgin Hotel at 1227 Broadway.

747 third avenue (renovation completion date 2019)

Address: 747 Third Avenue, New York, NY
Project Type: Office Building
Owner/Developer: William Kaufman Organization

Project Summary: 747 Third Avenue has repositioned itself as the premier Class A office building in the Grand Central District. The building’s newly completed renovation has transformed the lobby, including a state-of-the-art visitor access system, concierge desk and digital art. Design elements from the entrance carry throughout the lobby, extending to new common corridors, and feature striking, high-end materials and finishes. A signature green wall was installed echoing the same design language from the front entrance through the new plaza, a trademark of William Kaufman Organization buildings.

77 water street (Ongoing)

Address: 77 Water Street, New York, NY
Project Type: Existing Class A Office Building
Property Management: Sage Realty

Project Summary: Built in 1970 by the William Kaufman Organization, 77 Water Street is a 26-story office tower that sits at the epicenter of New York’s Financial District. Widely considered one of Wall Street’s most recognizable buildings, 77 Water Street is the quintessential expression of the Kaufmans’ vision that office buildings, and lobby areas in particular, should be welcoming places for workers and the larger community to mix and mingle.

CULTURAL

American Museum of Natural History

Address: 415 Columbus Ave., New York, NY
Project Type: Museum
Architect: ​Studio Gang
Owner’s Representative: ​Zubatkin

Project Summary: The American Museum of Natural History’s Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education and Innovation (Gilder Center) will invite visitors to experience the Museum not only as a place of public exhibitions but as an active scientific and educational institution. Designed by architect Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang and set into the Columbus Avenue side of the Museum complex at 79th Street, the project will add exhibition galleries, state-of-the-art classrooms, an immersive theatre, a redesigned library, and a Collections Core that will reveal more of the Museum’s scientific collections. At a time of urgent need to enhance the public understanding of science, the Gilder Center will expand access to a broader range of the Museum’s resources for students, teachers, and families, offering new learning opportunities and inviting all visitors to share in the excitement of discovery.

SPECIALTY PROJECTS

SEAGRAM BUILDING - PLAZA SCULPTURE entitled “what party?" - (CHUM CHARACTER) - placed october 2020

Address: 375 PARK AVE., NEW YORK, NY
Project Type: SPECIALTY ARTS & CULTURE, SIDEWALK PLAZA PROJECT
Artist: KAWS Owner: RFR Property Management: RFR

Project Summary: This 20-foot tall character, a notable trademark of the Brooklyn-based artist KAWS, is made of bronze, and is appropriately backdropped by the iconic Mies Van Der Rohe landmark skyscraper.