Elegran Edge
The Real Estate Blog
What is Elegran Edge? It’s the blog where we bring together the biggest and best stories from our neighborhood blogs and agent blogs. If it’s happening in Manhattan real estate, you can find it here.
Articles about "New Development"
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Extell's High-End East Village Building Attracts Luxury Renters
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Laura Schier
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May 01, 2018
Rental apartments at Extell's luxury East Village building are going fast, what is luring residents?
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Hudson Heights: NYC's Best-Kept Secret is On The Rise
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Julia Troy
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March 06, 2018
Hudson Heights is changing fast, is there still time for buyers to get great deals on a home in this exciting area?
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Developers Tapped to Build on NYC Housing Authority Land
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Laura Schier
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February 06, 2018
Two new developments will be constructed at the New York City Housing Authority’s Wyckoff Gardens. What can New Yorkers expect from them?
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Tishman Speyer Buys Potential "Hudson Spire" Site
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Kamini Ramdeen
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May 22, 2014
Tishman Speyer Properties recently purchased two parcels north of the Hudson Yards development site for a whopping $438 million. This large purchase is considered Tishman Speyer’s first major property acquisition since the market crash in 2008. The company had been buying primarily foreign real estate in Europe, Brazil and China. Their U.S. property purchases were mainly in California and Chicago, until now.
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DUMBO Heights the ‘Campus’ for All Things Tech
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Kamini Ramdeen
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May 16, 2014
Jared Kushner (owner of the Puck building located in SoHo) along with partners Aby Rosen and Michael Fuchs from the RFR firm (who have a huge Manhattan skyscraper office portfolio, which includes the Seagram Building located on Park Avenue), and Asher Abehsera (an investor from LIVWRK Holdings), have come together to purchase the Brooklyn Watchtower from the Jehovah Witnesses. The transaction cost the partners $375 million for the 1.2 million square feet property purchase.
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10 Indicators A Neighborhood Is Set To Emerge
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Kamini Ramdeen
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March 25, 2014
New York, the land of trend creation, brings about a difficult task for residents. That task is, keeping up with the latest trendy neighborhoods. New Yorkers can do one better than just keeping up, they can now spot the soon-to-be trendy stomping grounds themselves. How you ask? By keeping an eye-out for these emerging factors: 1) Neighborhood Renovations are afoot.
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Foreign Buyers' Trend Moves To Brooklyn
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Kamini Ramdeen
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March 19, 2014
Photo Source: http://world.soufun.com/ Oosten Condominium is the soon to be developed 421 Kent Avenue building in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Like many other condominium buildings in NYC, this one has a green roof, seven stories, 215-condo units, private pools, aerobics room, cafe, even an industrial design that has a glassy facade complimenting it’s exterior. What’s unique about this particular building?
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Brooklyn's Fourth Avenue: Moving On Up
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Kamini Ramdeen
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February 14, 2014
The “Park Avenue” of Brooklyn, is the name fitted for Fourth Avenue. After a 2003 rezoning and withstanding this latest recession, residential development and construction has begun and the transformation we’ve been waiting for is finally happening, according to the New York Times.
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A Shipping Container You’ll Want to Live in..No, Really!
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Bryan Gamble
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December 05, 2013
Williamsburg, a neighborhood known by many for its alternative and avant garde sentiments, is at it again with an exciting new development at 2 Monitor Street. No it’s not another luxury condominium or artisan pickle shop, but rather a private residence made entirely out of recycled shipping containers.
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It’s Alive! MoMA Tower Jumpstarted by Foreign Investment
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Bryan Gamble
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November 04, 2013
In yet another series of fortunate financial events, the vacant lot adjacent to the MoMA has received a substantial investment of about $1 billion to greenlight the MoMA Expansion Tower, also known as Tower Verre (which fancifully translates to ‘glass tower’).
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