Ground broken on $14M condo project

Real Estate Weekly, Oct 31, 2001

York Hunter has broken ground on the new Greenwich Street apartments, a $14 million loft condominium project in Greenwich Village featuring a large, architecturally detailed glass curtain wall facade.

Designed by Archi-tectonics, the project includes the adaptive reuse of a former six-story warehouse with the addition of a four-story penthouse, and a new 1 1-story building next door. A central lobby and elevator bank will serve the entire building. The glass curtain wall steps back at intervals and wraps around the side and top of the renovated brick warehouse structure, creating an architecturally unique building.

To foster a more active street and ease the transition from a former industrial neighborhood to an integrated residential neighborhood, an art gallery and retail space will be incorporated on the ground floor.

When completed in the Spring 2002, the building will have 26 open or "raw" loft units ranging in size from 1,500 to 4,000 SF. Residents at the Greenwich Street apartments will enjoy Hudson River views from their loft, or from the landscaped rooftop garden. The four-story, glass and steel penthouse was designed to feel particularly open, with large tree-like columns on the inside supporting the space.