$600 million hotel and condominium tower at 50 West Street Back To Life

Thursday, 07 July 2011 22:05

Hotel Real Estate News NYC

$600 million hotel and condominium tower at 50 West Street Back To Life

139-room hotel

The big and shiny Helmut Jahn hotel/condo combo at 50 West Street is back from the dead and

getting ready to rise just south of the World Trade Center site. The plan from West Street Development LLC, 65 stories growing 714 feet into the downtown sky above the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, first came to light back in 2008, but it skidded to a stop along with the economy.

Now a permit for the new building ( http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/WorkPermitDataServlet?allisn=0002250551&allisn2=00 00607607&allbin=1087661&requestid=2 ) has been issued to the architect of record, Gruzen Samton Architects. But this is still Helmut's baby and his design, described by some as a ginormous silver sex toy, can be seen on the Murphy Jahn website, where it's tagged as the "Time Equities Tower." But don't let the mundane name fool yo

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