Greenpoint: Mammoth waterfront makeover begins
Eye On Real Estate
The wheels are starting to turn on the construction of Greenpoint Landing – a mega-project that will fill 20 acres of the Greenpoint waterfront with about 5,000 apartments.
Greenpoint Landing Associates, an entity of Manhattan-based developer George Klein’s Park Tower Group, has filed plans with the city Buildings Department for two relatively small residential buildings – a prelude to planned towers of 30 to 40 stories at the site at Commercial and West streets.
A Buildings Department plan exam is in process for a March filing by Handel Architects to construct a six-story, 93-unit apartment building with about 2,500 square feet of commercial space at 21 Commercial St. And this week, Langan Engineering applied for a permit to build a sidewalk and curb at this location.
The desolate fenced-in parking lot has jaw-dropping views of the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building and other jewels of the midtown skyline.