The pandemic quickly changed the way we live and build, but ultimately didn’t stop New Yorkers from doing either. This March, COVID-19 brought New York City to a standstill, from the city’s bustling street life to the plethora of construction projects that defined the prior year. It goes without saying that 2020 has been an unpredictable, challenging year. A winner will be announced on Monday, December 27.
Which do you think deserves 6sqft’s title of 2021 Building of the Year? Polls for our seventh annual competition will remain open through midnight on Sunday, December 26. Our picks are down to 16 of the most notable residential projects this year. With work-from-home culture likely not going anywhere, developers offer designer-crafted co-working spaces, libraries, and lounges. Amenities now focus on health and wellness, like stunning sky-high pools, curated fitness centers, and landscaped outdoor space. Records were broken, set, and broken again.Īs the city adapts to a new normal, so do residential projects.
The priciest private development ever built in the Bronx opened. More apartments sold in Manhattan in the third quarter of 2021 than at any point during the last 30 years. This year, we saw positive signs that the road to recovery for New York real estate has started. After New York City’s construction and real estate industries ground to a halt last year because of the pandemic, 2021 saw a flurry of activity, thanks to the arrival of the coronavirus vaccine and federal funding for states and cities. For more information or to schedule a private appointment at the sales gallery, please call 21 or visit Have a listing you think should be featured contact us or email at to tell us more! Follow Off The MRKT on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. “Central Park Tower was designed to take advantage of the spirit of the great city of New York and create an address worthy of its location on Billionaires Row and Central Park.” said Gordon Gill of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture.Īt the base of the building will be the new 320,000-square-foot, seven-story Nordstrom NYC Flagship store that represents the company’s biggest and best statement of the brand. After a 30-year search for the optimum site, the Seattle-based fashion retailer selected Central Park Tower as the location for its largest single-project investment in its over 100-year history.Įxtell is co-developing Central Park Tower with SMI USA (SMI), the US subsidiary of Shanghai Municipal Investment, a leading infrastructural investment company responsible for the esteemed Shanghai Tower, the second tallest building in the world.Įxtell Marketing Group will exclusively handle the sales and marketing for Central Park Tower, with first closings slated for late 2019.
Currently, AS+GG is responsible for the design of the next world’s tallest building, Jeddah Tower now under construction in Saudi Arabia, as well Wuhan Greenland Center and Greenland Tower Chengdu, both currently under construction in China. AS+GG has collaborated with clients across the globe to design nine of the world’s tallest and highest-performing buildings. Central Park Tower was designed by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG), a firm dedicated to the design of high-performance, energy-efficient, striking architecture on an international scale.