Millennium gets in the mix.Millennium Partners, which in recent years has developed a major portfolio of luxury residences in tandem Adv. 1. in tandem - one behind the other; "ride tandem on a bicycle built for two"; "riding horses down the path in tandem" tandem with The Ritz-Carlton Hotels and Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts The creator of this article, or someone who has substantially contributed to it, may have a conflict of interest regarding its subject matter. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. , has found a new partner for its latest high-rise residence in lower Manhattan Lower Manhattan is the southernmost part of the island of Manhattan, the main island and center of business and government of the City of New York. Lower Manhattan is generally defined as the area delineated on the north by Chambers Street, on the west by the Hudson River (North : itself. The developer's new 35-story project, with 236 condominium apartments, will be called Millennium Tower Residences, Battery Park. A groundbreaking ceremony for the new project occurred on April 14, attended by New York New York, state, United States 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 Governor George Pataki, who welcomed Millennium's Battery Park residence as a major milestone in green design for lower Manhattan and New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . Offering more than 340,000 s/f of residential space, Millennium Tower Residences will be located on West Street, adjacent to The Ritz-Carlton New York, Battery Park, another Millennium property that has become a downtown anchor since it opened in 2001. Millennium Partners reports that its new project has received extraordinary pre-sale interest, with a waiting list of more than 1,000 potential buyers. It arrives as lower Manhattan continues to rebound as one of the city's prime residential areas. Construction on Millennium Tower Residences, with panoramic views of the Hudson River, the Statue of Liberty Statue of Liberty great symbolic structure in New York harbor. [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 284] See : America Statue of Liberty perhaps the most famous monument to independence. [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 284] See : Freedom and the Financial District, is expected to be completed at the end of 2006. Units range from 875 s/f 1-bedroom apartments starting at $705,000, to 2,400 s/f 4-bedroom homes starting at $1.8 million. The average 3-bedroom unit, one of the hardest configurations to find these days in New York, will start at $1.37 million, below market average. Prices are expected to increase soon after sales commence. The project promises to hit an especially high bar in environmental sensitivity, in keeping with a pledge by the Battery Park City Authority The Hugh L. Carey Battery Park City Authority is a New York State public benefit corporation whose mission is to plan, create, co-ordinate and maintain a balanced community of commercial, residential, retail, and park space within its designated 92-acre site on the lower west side to create a sustainable community. Millennium Tower Residences will be LEED gold-certified as a green building, close to the highest category in the emerging field of environmental design. The Millennium Tower Residences are being designed by Handel Architects, which is also the designated designer for the World Trade Center Site Memorial. |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion