Sheldrake chosen for last Battery Park site.The Hugh L. Carey 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 Board of Directors designated a group including The Sheldrake Organization, Plaza Construction Corporation and RW Consultants, Inc., to erect another "green" residential tower on its last waterfront site. The building will be approximately 30 stories tall and contain more than 300 residential units. The new 537,400 s/f building, slated for Site 16/17, is located on the Hudson River Hudson River River, New York, U.S. Originating in the Adirondack Mountains and flowing for about 315 mi (507 km) to New York City, it was named for Henry Hudson, who explored it in 1609. Dutch settlement of the Hudson valley began in 1629. , bordered on the north by Murray Street Murray Street may refer to:
"We received a record number of proposals from some of the nation's most prominent developers." said Timothy S. Carey, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of the Hugh L. Carey Battery Park City Authority. "The wide appeal for this innovative project is further evidence of both the resilience of the 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 real estate market, and the attractiveness of building in Battery Park City." Site 16/17 will be the fifth site developed under the Authority's "green" development guidelines, and with a 45,000 square foot footprint, it represents the largest remaining residential site in Battery Park City. The future residential tower will sit between the acclaimed Irish Hunger Memorial The Irish Hunger Memorial, designed collaboratively by artist Brian Tolle, landscape architect Gail Wittwer-Laird, and 1100 Architect, is located on a one-quarter acre site at the corner of Vesey Street and North End Avenue in the Battery Park City neighborhood of Manhattan in New and the nearly completed Teardrop Park Teardrop Park is a public park in downtown Manhattan, in Battery Park City near to the site of the World Trade Center. It was designed by Michael Van Valkenburg Associates, a leading firm of landscape architects. . "We are delighted to award this site to Sheldrake, Plaza Construction, and RW Consultants for development. They are a top-flight group that I know will rise to the challenge and exceed all of our expectations for this unique project," said James Gill, Chairman of the Hugh L. Carey Battery Park City Authority. "We are very excited to be able to develop this site in Battery Park City," said J. Christopher Daly, President of The Sheldrake Organization. "We are particularly eager to match, if not exceed the high level of sustainable development established by the Authority." The building at Site 16/ 17 will also include a courtyard, which will serve as a continuation of Teardrop Park. |
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