YIMBY Today: Details For Five-Story Building Coming To 89 South Street In Seaport District, More
89 South Street [Curbed]: At a recent Special Landmarks Committee meeting, SHoP revealed a five-story mixed-use affordable housing and retail building — to be clad in “real brick” — at the vacant lot of 89 South Street, in South Street Seaport. The proposal, along...
Day in the Life of: Eran Polack
Eran Polack (credit: Dominique Pettway) Eran Polack is CEO and co-founder of HAP Investment Developers, best known for its collaborations with architect/designer Karim Rashid in northern Manhattan. Polack, 41, launched HAP in the 1990s with investments in Kiev,...
The most attention-grabbing renderings from 2014
A stark-white building with magenta-rimmed balconies will take shape on a century-old block in East Harlem. In Brooklyn, a hotel appearing like something out of “Star Trek” will rise 20 stories above the neighborhood of Williamsburg. These are just a few projects in...
Leasing Is Healthy All Around Town
LEASING NEW YORK CITY—Jack Resnick & Sons has attracted another media tenant to 315 Hudson St. Intent Media, an online advertising company, has signed a four-year, 34,942-square-foot lease at the nine-story, 481,184 square-foot building. The firm is currently...
New Look: HAP Tower, 500 Summit Avenue, Journal Square
Update: Per HAP, both versions depict “different design studies for the site, and are simply conceptual at this time. They may not reflect the final approved design which is not expected for several years.” Back in August, YIMBY featured a first look at HAP’s plans...
NEW DEVELOPMENT: Paris-inspired Greenwich Village homes begin leasing, HAP announces newest project
●Edward J. Minskoff Equities Village gets its own French quarter Edward J. Minskoff Equities has introduced the first luxury homes at its Paris-inspired conversion at 37 East 12th Street. Douglas Elliman’s Madeline Hult Elghanayan, Dennis Mangone and Kirk Rundhaug...
NEW DEVELOPMENT: HAP unveils newest uptown project, Sutton place rental starts leasing
● Prodigy Network Downtown crowd pleaser Prodigy Network has tapped Woods Bagot to turn design ideas into reality at its 17John development. The firm will test-fit the crowdsourced winning designs from the first Prodigy Design Lab competition, held this past spring....
Design AIDD to design new rental
New York-based LEED-accredited architecture firm Design AIDD Architecture, DPC, has been awarded the contract to design a six-story multi-family market rate rental project at 284 Wadsworth Avenue in Washington Heights, which will be known as HAP 4.1. Developed by HAP...
HAP’s East Harlem project hit with stop-work order
UPDATED, 6:06 p.m., June 23: The city ordered that HAP Investment Developers halt construction of an eight-story rental building in East Harlem, citing damage done to nearby homes and the decapitation of a statue of Buddha. The Department of Buildings found that HAP’s...
HAP Investments to Develop 10-Unit Residential Building in Washington Heights
NEW YORK CITY — New York City-based HAP Investments LLC is developing a new project at 284 Wadsworth Ave. in Washington Heights. Known as HAP 4.1, the six-story, 11,000-square-foot development will offer 10 one- and two-bedroom apartments and basement space. The...