Harlem Renaissance
Once Blighted Neighborhood Now Home to Building Boom.
With retail development paving the way, the upper Manhattan
neighborhood of Harlem is home to numerous construction projects,
including apartments and condominiums, a health care facility,
auto mall and the first hotel the neighborhood has seen in
a generation. And with available land becoming increasingly
scarce for developers, the building boom has shown few signs
of abating.
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The Flatiron of
125th Street
Harlem
Health Center Has Space to Spare.Construction was
completed in November on a $30 million health center that
serves about 17,000 New York Hotel Trades Council and Hotel
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The High Life
in Harlem
Neighborhood's First New Hotel
Will Be Its Tallest Tower.
A diverse group of investors break ground recently on a 29-story,
mostly glass tower in Harlem that will house a 208-room Marriott
Courtyard hotel, catering spaces, jazz club and 250,000 sq.
ft. of office space.
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Bradhurst Court
Project Marries Supermarket
With Apartments.
A Pathmark grocery store and an apartment building are not
a match made in heaven, but it's a match that can be made.
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Strivers Gardens
Two
Towers Rising on Frederick Douglass Boulevard.
Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington aren't just jazz legends.
They're also the namesakes of two new luxury condominium towers
in Harlem . Full Story >>
Development Revs
Up
General Motors, Potamkin to
Build Harlem Auto Mall.
East Harlem is soon to be home to the largest auto sales and
service center in New York City. Full
Story >>
East to West
Brooklyn College Continues
Its Transformation.
It will take some shuffling of student services to accomplish,
but Brooklyn College has taken the first steps in its $76.3
million West Quad project. Full
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Tradition With
a Twist
RPI Combines Experimental
Media With Performing Arts.
When designing the new Experimental Media and Performing Arts
Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, architects faced
the task of combining the transient elements of experimental
media with the more traditional aspects of performing arts.
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Reading Between
the Lines
School Capital Plan Could
Face Challenges.
From funding shortfalls to labor disputes, the New York City
Department of Educations capital plan could face some pitfalls
on the road to implementation. Full
Story >>
Putting Children
First
NYC Department of Education
Proposing $13.1B Capital Plan.
The New York City Department of Education is proposing an
ambitious $13.1 billion capital plan designed to improve 671
struggling schools and build 76 new ones.
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