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New Public Park Included In Long Island City Tower: See It

LONG ISLAND CITY, QUEENS — The new 67-story apartment tower recently completed at Queens Plaza will also include a small public park, developers revealed Thursday Sven, a 762-foot-tall luxury rental building, stands complete at the corner of Queens Plaza and Northern Boulevard, featuring a distinctive design that curves around the landmark Chase Manhattan Bank building. Right behind the building, facing Northern Boulevard, will be a half-acre public park with a playground, dog runs, workout equipment and swinging benches, according to The Durst Organization, which built the tower. It is expected to open in early 2023. Designed by the landscape architecture…

Publication Patch
Date 2022-03-11
Author Nick Garber

See renderings of the new public park coming to Long Island City

While Long Island City has gorgeous views of the East River and Manhattan skyline, many of its residents are subject to views of construction and industrial activities. Every bit of green space is needed in LIC, and thankfully, more of it is on the way Sven Park is a new half-acre public park located next to Sven, The Durst Organization’s newest luxury residential tower that launched leasing in November. Technically, the park will be in the Dutch Kills neighborhood, which has the smallest amount of park space per capita of any neighborhood in Queens, according to The Durst Organization. "In…

Publication TimeOut New York
Date 2022-03-11
Author Shaye Weaver

American Equity Investment Life and Robert W. Baird & Co. sign leases at 1155 Avenue of the Americas

A pair of 17,000-square-foot leases were signed recently at 1155 Avenue of the Americas, The Durst Organization’s 42-story office building in Midtown Manhattan that recently underwent a $120 million capital improvement program American Equity Investment Life of West Des Moines, Iowa, signed a 10-year lease for 17,000 square feet on the 35th floor of the building, which will be its first New York City office. Financial services firm Robert W. Baird & Co. of Milwaukee, which first signed for a full floor at the building in 2017, signed a 12-year deal for an additional 17,000 square feet on the 36th…

Publication New York Business Journal
Date 2022-03-07
Author Ben Miller
Date 2022-03-04
Author The Durst Organization

American Equity, Robert W. Baird Each Sign for 17K SF at 1155 Avenue of the Americas

American Equity Investment Life Insurance Company and financial services company Robert W. Baird & Co. each inked a deal for 17,246 square feet at 1155 Avenue of the Americas, Commercial Observer has learned American Equity signed a 10-year lease for space on the 35th floor of the Durst Organization’s 42-story building, according to the landlord. The firm was founded in West Des Moines, Iowa, nearly three decades ago and the 1155 Avenue of the Americas office will be its first office in New York City, which it expects to move into in the fourth quarter of the year, Durst said.…

Publication Commercial Observer
Date 2022-03-04
Author Nicholas Rizzi
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