Sven
29-59 Northern Boulevard | Dutch Kills | built 2021
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- 2015
Developers plan a 930-foot tower over the East Side Access tunnel
In March 2015 developers PMG and the Hakim Organization proposed a 77-story, 930-foot tower on the block around the old Manhattan Company bank building. Air rights came from the MTA's East Side Access project, whose tunnel runs under the site, and from the bank building; without them the tower would have been limited to 38 stories.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2016
The Durst Organization buys the Queens Plaza site for $175 million
In 2016 the Durst Organization paid PMG $175 million for the site. PMG's Kevin Maloney and Kamran Hakim of the Hakim Organization said they lacked the "horsepower" to finish the job. Durst kept the Queens Plaza Park name at first and in April 2018 unveiled a smaller 63-story plan wrapping around the bank building.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2020
The curved glass residential tower tops out at Queens Plaza
The tower topped out in June 2020. At 762 feet it is today the third-tallest building in Queens. Handel Architects gave it an all-glass facade whose southern face curves inward toward Queens Plaza, a shape compared to London's 20 Fenchurch Street, and the 1927 bank building and clock tower became its retail base.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2021
Sven begins leasing its 958 apartments
Renamed Sven, the development held an opening ceremony in early 2021, but Durst only started renting its 958 apartments, 288 of them affordable, that November. In 2022 Finback Brewery became the first commercial tenant, and in mid-2024 Affinius Capital bought a stake valuing the building at over $700 million.
“…the developer did not begin leasing the 958 residential units until that November…”
Source: Wikipedia
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