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Essex Crossing conceptual rendering. SHoP Architects.
This morning, preliminary plans were filed with the city for the building that will become the centerpiece of the Essex Crossing project. Next March, developers are scheduled to begin the first phase of the nearly 2-million square foot development in the former Seward Park Urban Renewal Area.
The building, 115 Delancey St./80 Essex St., is on the site of the southernmost Essex Street Market building. The filing indicates the building will be 26 stories and encompass 300, 547 square feet.
However, the developers told The Lo-Down recently, and again today, that the tower will actually be 24, not 26 stories, and that the total square footage will be 380,000 square feet.
Essex Crossing Site 2; view from the intersection of Delancey and Essex streets. Credit: Handel Architects.
Tonight at University Settlement’s Houston Street Center, developers of Essex Crossing are unveiling their designs for the first four buildings of the large residential and commercial project coming to the former Seward Park urban renewal site.
Thanks to a press briefing held earlier today, we’re able to bring you a condensed version of what members of the public are seeing this evening. Delancey Street Associates, the consortium building the nearly 2-million sq. ft. project, asked us to wait until the meeting of Community Board 3’s land use committee got underway before we published the renderings you see here.
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