Four Seasons Hotel New York Downtown
99 Church Street | also 30 Park Place | Tribeca | built 2016
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- 1951
An 11-story office building goes up at 99 Church Street
An 11-story office building of about 441,000 square feet went up at 99 Church Street in 1951. It became the headquarters of Moody's Corporation and stood on the lot until the present tower replaced it. Demolition of the old building began in November 2007.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2006
Silverstein Properties buys 99 Church Street from Moody's for $170 million
Larry Silverstein's company bought the site from Moody's Corporation, whose headquarters there was an 11-story office building from 1951. Moody's had agreed to relocate to 7 World Trade Center, another Silverstein tower, leaving the Church Street building empty in 2007. The developer and the pension fund CalSTRS first planned to replace it with a 58-story residential tower.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2007
Silverstein unveils a 60-story tower with a boutique hotel, replacing a 58-story residential plan
After buying 99 Church Street from Moody's in late 2006, Silverstein Properties and CalSTRS first planned to replace the old offices with a residential tower of 58 stories. In March 2007 Silverstein formally presented a different scheme, a 60-story mixed-use tower with a boutique hotel occupying the lowest 20 stories. The architect had not yet been announced.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2007
Robert A. M. Stern is named architect as demolition of the Moody's building begins
In 2007 Silverstein unveiled a 60-story mixed-use tower with a boutique hotel in its lower floors, and in November he named Robert A. M. Stern, the 2011 Driehaus Prize winner, as its architect. Demolition of the old office building started the same month. By January 2008 the design had grown to 80 stories, Four Seasons was announced as hotel operator, and the address was set as 30 Park Place.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2008
The tower's 80-story design is shown, with Four Seasons as hotel operator
In January 2008 an 80-story, 912-foot design by Robert A. M. Stern was shown for the Church Street site. The presentation also named Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts as the hotel operator and gave the project its street address, 30 Park Place. Stern had been revealed as architect two months earlier.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2010
Silverstein sets a new 2012 start date after the project stalls
By March 2009 the tower was on hold because Silverstein could not obtain financing during the 2008 financial crisis. Speaking at the Bloomberg Real Estate Briefing in November 2010, Larry Silverstein said work would now start in 2012 and wrap up in 2014. Construction actually began in the fall of 2013.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2013
After a financing freeze, a $660 million loan lets construction begin in the fall
The project stalled by March 2009 because Silverstein could not raise financing after the 2008 financial crisis. In May 2013 Silverstein Properties secured $660 million in construction financing from the hedge fund The Children's Investment Fund. Tishman Construction managed the work, which began that fall, and the tower topped out in early 2015.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2015
Robert A. M. Stern's tower is fully sheathed with nine floors to go
Curbed reported in late August 2015 that the exterior of 30 Park Place was fully sheathed, with windows in up to the first setback and only nine of its 82 floors remaining. Designed by Robert A. M. Stern, the tower looked on track for its targeted 2016 completion. It was expected to contain 157 condominium units and 185 hotel rooms.
Source: Internet Archive
- 2016
The tower's 157 residences have a private Park Place entrance and are mostly sold
The condominiums above the hotel have their own entrance and lobby at 30 Park Place. There are 157 residences, some as large as 6,500 square feet, and residents share an indoor pool 75 feet long, a fitness center, a lounge and a children's room. Silverstein Properties reported at the hotel's October 2016 ribbon cutting that it had sold more than 75 percent of them.
Source: Internet Archive
- 2016
The Four Seasons Hotel New York Downtown has its grand opening
The hotel opened on September 19 with 189 rooms in the lower floors, under its own Barclay Street lobby. Above it rise 157 residences, reached through a separate entrance at 30 Park Place. At 926 feet and 82 stories, the tower was then the second-tallest residential building in Downtown Manhattan, behind 70 Pine Street.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2016
CUT by Wolfgang Puck, the chef's first New York restaurant, opens off the hotel lobby
Just off the lobby is CUT, the first New York City restaurant from the celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck. The hotel also has a lap pool 75 feet long and a spa with seven treatment rooms, along with a gym and business services that run around the clock.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2016
Stern's design is a slim square shaft rising from a four-story base with Neoclassical and Art Deco details
A Tribeca neighborhood news site describes the tower as a thin square column on a wider four-story base, with chamfered corners at the bottom and notches and setbacks higher up. Granite and limestone clad the lowest level, with precast concrete panels colored to look like limestone above it. Bay windows, Juliet balconies, iron railings, Neoclassical touches and Art Deco grilles decorate the facade. The hotel and the residences have separate entrances, and a three-story annex holds parking and mechanical equipment.
Source: tribecacitizen.com
Further reading
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