Castellano pays it Forward on the Lower East Side.The Forward Building, former home of the preeminent Jewish Daily Forward newspaper, is being converted into new luxury condominiums by owner, developer and architect, Ronald T. Castellano, founder of Studio Castellano. Castellano is the sole developer of the property, and sales will be handled exclusively by Michael Bolla of Forward Marketing, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control . The sales office will open in March 2006, and final construction will be completed by early summer. Situated in Manhattan's Lower East Side at 175 East Broadway between Jefferson and Rutgers Streets on the southeast corner, the 10 story building, which faces historic Seward Park Seward Park may refer to:
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City's first municipal playground dating from 1903, remains a towering presence within the context of its surrounding neighborhood. The property's new conversion will make way for 29 studios, one and two-bedroom lofts and one of downtown's most exquisite penthouses. Four commercial spaces situated in the lobby and mezzanine levels will offer luxury work space in one of the last authentic corners to remain in this rapidly burgeoning neighborhood. Castellano's new con version undertakes the most extensive restoration work in the building's 96-year history. Architect John D. Nakrosis faithfully refurbished the facade. Nakrosis' firm also provided architectural and engineering services for the replacement of the terra cotta cot·ta n. pl. cot·tae or cot·tas A short surplice. [Medieval Latin, of Germanic origin.] cladding and repairs to the structural steel. The facade's magnificent neo-classical stucco stucco (stŭk`ō), in architecture, a term loosely applied to various kinds of plasterwork, both exterior and interior. It now commonly refers to a plaster or cement used for the external coating of buildings, most frequently employed in terracotta features will be highlighted with a sophisticated exterior lighting configuration designed by Fisher Marantz & Stone whose award winning technology illuminates New York's Grand Central Station and the new wing of the American Museum of Natural History American Museum of Natural History, incorporated in New York City in 1869 to promote the study of natural science and related subjects. Buildings on its present site were opened in 1877. . |
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