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21 March 2023
HQ Development Plans Altered for Dallas Company
Earlier in March 2023, CBRE made a statement saying that it would move its headquarters in Dallas from 2100 McKinney Ave to a new building...
17 March 2023
Office Block with Unconventional Exterior Rises in Los Angeles
Hayden Tract, a former manufacturing hub in Culver City, California has been undergoing a transformation over the past four decades with buildings ideated by tech...
16 March 2023
Shelter-in-Place Order Lifted after Storm Causes Glass Panes to Fall from San Francisco Skyscraper
An order to shelter in place and evacuate the area surrounding a skyscraper in San Franciso has been lifted. The order was initially put in...
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15 March 2023
An Upper East Side Hotel Fire is Under Investigation
A fire that broke up in a hotel on Manhattan's Upper East Side on 15 March, 2023, is under investigation by the FBI to determine...
14 March 2023
Renderings for What Could be the Tallest Building in Bayonne Revealed
Construction has been approved for the first phase of NY Vue, a residential tower that could be the city's tallest. The 26-story, 155,000-square-foot (14,399-square-meter) site...
07 March 2023
Construction Work Paused on Tech Giant's Arlington HQ
Construction has been paused on the Amazon HQ2 campus in Arlington, Virginia the company confirmed to News4 on Friday, 3 March, 2023. Not all phases...
02 March 2023
Preparations for Shake Table Testing of 10-Story Mass Timber Building Underway
Shake table testing preparations are underway for a 10-story mass timber building by the project team at [email protected] These will take place over the course...
27 February 2023
Graveyard in Columbus to be Excavated before High-Rise Construction
A graveyard is being excavated in anticipation of the erection of a new skyscraper with 31 stories that will include a hotel and parking garage....
23 February 2023
Chicago Condominium Property Primed for Reconversion
A 28-story Edgewater high-rise has been listed for sale in Chicago, looking to attract investors that transform condo buildings into apartments. The brokerage group, Kiser...
15 February 2023
New Mass Timber Building in Milwaukee Could Rise 28 Stories
A revised version of The Edison apartment tower in Milwaukee could rise 28 stories at a riverfront site, potentially rising higher than the 25-story Ascent...
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14 February 2023
Mixed-Use Building Rises Quickly In Chicago
North Wells Capital’s 15-story mixed-use tower at 311 W Huron Street in River North is quickly rising. The tower will stand 226 feet tall (68.8...
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01 February 2023
Austin Design Commission Asks for Plan Revisions on 80-Story Supertall
HKS and developer Wilson Capital revealed plans in December 2022 for the Wilson Tower, an 80-story high-rise in Austin that plans to benefit from a...
31 January 2023
Residential High-Rise Planned for Seabrook
A mixed-use development may soon be constructed along NASA Parkway in Seabrook. Houston-based Highland Resources plans to build apartments and more than 8,000 square feet...
25 January 2023
Multiple Hospitalized and One Fatality in Kenwood High-Rise Fire in Chicago
A high-rise fire in Kenwood, Chicago on Wednesday, 25 January, 2023 killed one resident and sent eight others to the hospital. The building has many...
13 January 2023
Residential Project Near South Shore Cultural Center Proposed in Chicago
A high-rise apartment building is being proposed for a vacant lot near the South Shore Cultural Center in Chicago. Described as an equitable transit-oriented development...
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12 January 2023
Seven-Terraced Office Tower Proposed in New York City
A skyscraper that could reach 1,350 feet (411 meters) with 51 office floors and seven terraces has been proposed in New York City. The anchor...
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05 January 2023
A Pair of Textured, Stepped Towers are Added to the Brooklyn Waterfront
A new waterfront development in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York—Eagle + West—is sited where Newtown Creek funnels into the East River. The complex's two towers, though...
04 January 2023
Transformation of Octagonal San Antonio Building to Begin in 2024
The historic 30-story Tower-Life Building will undergo a multi-million dollar transformation starting in 2024. The eight-sided building features a distinctive green-glazed roof. The building had...
03 January 2023
Developers Pitch Substantial Residential Conversions in Chicago
Many Chicago developers are collectively proposing more than US$1.2 billion-worth of projects to renovate a suite of office buildings on and near LaSalle Street into...
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27 December 2022
Excavation Underway For Hotel And Observation Tower in Midtown, New York City
740 8th Avenue is a planned 1,067-foot (325.1-meter) hotel and observation tower in Midtown, Manhattan. The 52-story supertall was designed by ODA along with SLCE...
23 December 2022
Trading Firms Adds Two Floors to Chicago Office
A proprietary trading firm is adding to its office footprint in Chicago's Loop, bucking the post-pandemic trend of releasing downtown space back onto the market. ...
19 December 2022
"15-Minute City" Master Plan is Approved in Queens
A walkable master plan, designed as a "15-minute city", for a community in Queens dubbed Innovation QNS will offer an efficient way for residents to...
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16 December 2022
Los Angeles Mandates All New Buildings Must be All-Electric
Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved an ordinance on 7 December requiring that all new buildings within city limits be constructed all-electric. With this vote,...
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12 December 2022
18-Story University Building Completed in Boston
The newly completed 93-meter-tall Center for Computing & Data Sciences at Boston University (BU) is a new addition to the Boston area skyline. The US$305...
08 December 2022
Approval Won for 30-Story Rental Building in Fort Lauderdale
A proposed 30-story apartment development near downtown Fort Lauderdale was granted approval despite some design features that differ from city standards. The city's downtown master...
08 December 2022
Luxury Building with 86 Units Proposed in Aventura
Conditional approval has been granted for Tal Aventura, a luxury living residential complex in Aventura Florida as of October 3, 2022. General contractors hope to...
02 December 2022
Proposal Announced for Mixed-Use Neighborhood In Atlantic City
Connected through two major, ongoing developments in Philadelphia, Post Brothers and Bart Blatstein are seeking to formally partner on a job in Atlantic City that...
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02 December 2022
Construction Completed at 20-Story Residential Building In Downtown Brooklyn, New York City
Work has reached completion on 22 Chapel Street, a 20-story residential building in Downtown Brooklyn. Designed by CetraRuddy and developed by Delshah Capital and OTL...
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02 December 2022
San Jose Approves High-Rise To Replace Historic Restaurant
A high-rise tower, offering hundreds of residences, is slated to rise in downtown San Jose on a less than one-acre (0.4-hectare) plot, following approval from...
01 December 2022
New Look Revealed for Fort Worth High-Rise Apartments
The latest renderings of a proposed 12-story apartment building in downtown Fort Worth show an updated look for the building's exterior. Fort Worth's design review...
01 December 2022
Commercial Skyscraper Completes Construction In Downtown Brooklyn
Construction is complete on One Willoughby Square, a 35-story commercial skyscraper in Downtown Brooklyn. Designed by FXCollaborative and developed by JEMB Realty, the 552-foot-tall (168.3-meter-tall)...
30 November 2022
Condominium Project Offering 600 Units Planned for Miami Site
A new condiminium project is being planned by Aria Development Group and Merrimac Ventures after acquiring a redevelopment site for US$17.5 million. The joint venture...
29 November 2022
Ann Arbor Streets Closing to Reconfigure Tower Crane at High-Rise under Construction
New street closures will affect Ann Arbor as construction carries forward on a 13-story high-rise that is expected to cater to University of Michigan students...
29 November 2022
Chicago Apartment Building Sells for US$10.5 million
A historic Harry-Weese designed 14-story building in Streeterville, Chicago has been sold for US$10.5 million from Brad Management to Chicago-based Altitude Capital Partners. Built in...
25 November 2022
Under-Construction University Hospital Tower Was Not Found to Have Sunk Due to Structural Damage
Earlier in the week of Nov 21st, 2022, Ohio State University temporarily stopped construction on part of its new inpatient hospital tower after cracks were...
23 November 2022
Major University Unveils a Transparent Design for Research Building Named After Henrietta Lacks
The Henrietta Lacks Research Building, named as a part of the legacy of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman from Baltimore County whose cell samples have...
22 November 2022
Seattle Apartment Building Receives Investment from Developer
Skanska starts work in December 2022 on a 31-story apartment building it’s developing in the hip Belltown neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Dubbed “Kaye,” the building will...
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21 November 2022
Construction Begins on First Two High-Rises of a Large Mixed-Use Development in Atlanta
On 17 November 2022, Centennial Yards Company announced that the groundbreaking of Centennial Yards, one of the largest city-center developments in the US, had taken...
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17 November 2022
Brooklyn Crossing Completes Construction in New York City
Construction has reached completion on Brooklyn Crossing, a 51-story residential skyscraper at 18 Sixth Avenue in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn and the tallest building in the 22-acre...
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17 November 2022
Denver Mass Timber Project will Break Ground in 2023
What could be Denver's tallest mass timber building is set to break ground in July 2023. Situated in the River North (RiNo) Arts District, the...
16 November 2022
Residents Evacuated from Miami Beach Tower Cleared for Return
A contractor has deemed the 164-unit Port 6969 Collins Avenue at 6969 Collins Avenue safe for occupancy after the shorting or reinforcement of beams in the...
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15 November 2022
Austin Announces Supertall Tower
Austin-based real estate development firm Wilson Capital announced that its redevelopment of the Avenue Lofts site will be significantly larger than previously reported. The multifamily...
11 November 2022
Excavation Begins At 300 East 83rd Street On Manhattan’s Upper East Side in New York City
Excavation is in progress at 300 East 83rd Street, the site of a 22-story residential building in the Yorkville section of the Upper East Side. Designed...
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09 November 2022
New York Penthouse Sells for US$72 Million
A penthouse on Manhattan's Billionaire's Row at 220 Central Park South has sold for US$72 million, records show. The full-floor unit is just over 5,000 square...
08 November 2022
38 Injured after Fire Breaks Out in NYC High-Rise
Injuries were sustained after a fire broke out in Midtown, New York City at a high-rise on 5 November, 2022. Dozens of people were injured...
08 November 2022
Judge Rules Against Group Suing to Stop Presidential Center in Chicago
The long-waged fight by the group Protect Our Parks to halt construction of former President Barack Obama’s Jackson Park museum and campus has reached the...
04 November 2022
Building Has Topping Off Ceremony in Portland, Maine
The apartment building at 201 Federal Street, in downtown Portland and a block away from City Hall, had its “topping off” ceremony – the last...
02 November 2022
Mass Timber Luxury Residential Development Proposed for Spokane
atelierjones led an integrated design team for the proposal of a 178,000-square-foot (16,536-square-meter) mass timber housing project in Spokane, Washington that would deliver both market...
01 November 2022
Miami Beach Condo Evacuated Due to Structural Concerns
The city of Miami Beach ordered residents of a 164-unit condo tower to evacuate the building Thursday, 27 October, 2022 after engineers found significant damage...
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31 October 2022
Downtown Jersey City Approves 60-Story Building and Redevelopment Plan
The transformation of a piece of Downtown Jersey City progress significantly the week of 20 October, 2022. The Jersey City City Council officially began the...
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31 October 2022
Office Building Structurally Tops Out in Dallas
CTBUH has just received confirmation that the 27-story No. 14 Harwood has recently structurally topped out. Located in Dallas, Texas, the design for the project...
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28 October 2022
Residential 36-Story High-Rise Gets City Council Approval in Chicago.
A US$166 million, 35-story residential tower is coming to Greektown after getting City Council approval Wednesday. The high-rise at 301 S. Green St. will replace a...
25 October 2022
Office Tower in Hudson Yards Development Officially Opens in New York City
Foster + Partners has completed 50 Hudson Yards in New York City as part of the Hudson Yards major development in Midtown Manhattan. The 981-foot-tall (299...
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25 October 2022
New 43-Story Tower Breaks Ground in Booming Austin District
Construction has begun on a a 43-story apartment tower in the Rainey Street area in downtown Austin, which has recently experienced a surge in development....
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24 October 2022
Trustee Gives US$121 Million to Expand University's Biomedical Research Center
Northwestern University Trustee Kimberly K. Querrey (’22, ’23 P) and the Louis Simpson Trust have made a new US$121 million gift to Northwestern to advance...
21 October 2022
New Insurance Headquarters Building Coming to Downtown Omaha's Skyline
Mutual of Omaha’s new headquarters will be adding a proposed 44-story skyscraper in the heart of downtown. The now-completed construction plans for the US$600 million...
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20 October 2022
New York City Announces US$1.6 Billion Life Sciences Campus
Plans have been announced for a US$1.6 billion life sciences campus to be located on the east side of Manhattan and administered in partnership with...
19 October 2022
Approval Sought on 28-Story Mixed-Use Tower in San Antonio
The push to revitalize downtown San Antonio with projects like Civic Park in progress continues as plans for a 28-story residential tower are revealed next...
18 October 2022
Distressed Loop Building set for Apartment Conversion in Chicago
N.Y.-based Intersection Realty Group Intersection paid US$19.3 million last month for a 25-story office building at 65 East Wacker Place, according to Cook County property...
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17 October 2022
Another Historic Tacoma Building is Renovating to Rentals
Owners of a historic office building, originally known as the Sandberg-Schoenfeld building that was completed in 1908 and has since been called DaVita Building, will...
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14 October 2022
Solar Cell Façade is Proposed for Miami Residential High-Rise
Miami-based real estate development firm Ytech has announced The Residences at 1428 Brickell, a high-rise luxury condominium development that integrates photovoltaic glazing within the building’s...
14 October 2022
Beachside Residential High-Rise Evacuated for Safety in South Carolina
A 21-story high-rise condominium building, the Renaissance Tower, has been deemed unsafe by Horry County officials as of Friday, 7 October, 2022 leaving residents without...
13 October 2022
New Renderings For Residential Tower in Oakland Revealed
Pre-application documents were submitted by The CIM Group for a 46-story residential tower at 325 22nd Street, named Town Tower, in Downtown Oakland. The project's...
12 October 2022
Excavation Begins For 325-Meter Development in New York City
Excavation and pilings have begun at 740 Eighth Avenue, the site of a 52-story, 1,067-foot-tall (325-meter-tall) hotel and observation tower in Midtown, Manhattan offering 776,000...
11 October 2022
Multifamily Project Receives Funding in Los Angeles
A residential high-rise and four-story luxury hotel has just received development funding in downtown Woodlands Hills, Los Angeles. Existing currently on the site are a...
10 October 2022
Landmark Building in Chicago is Up for Sale
The developer that transformed the landmark 17-story Chicago Motor Club building into a Hampton Inn is looking to sell. Chicago-based Murphy Development Group has hired...
07 October 2022
Over 80-Year-Old Tower in Austin is Getting First Major Renovation
On Wednesday, 5 October 2022, the University of Texas-Austin’s Board of Regents announced plans to provide a USD$26 million lead investment that will go toward...
06 October 2022
Excavation And Pilings Underway at Residential Skyscraper in Queens, New York City
Below-grade work is underway at 27-48 Jackson Avenue, the site of a 69-story residential skyscraper in the Court Square district of Long Island City, Queens....
05 October 2022
Pharmaceutical Company Expanding, Moving HQ to Fulton Market, Chicago
A drug maker that moved its research division from California to Chicago early in the COVID-19 pandemic is continuing to invest in its office and...
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04 October 2022
Luxury Hotel Brand Coming to South Station Tower in Boston
The residences being built at South Station Tower are within walking distance of Boston public transit system the T. Famed hotelier Ritz-Carlton will be the...
04 October 2022
New Renderings Revealed for Supertall Slated for San Francisco
New renderings of 50 Main Street have been revealed for the Foster + Partners-designed project, permitting a glimpse of one of the tallest proposals for...
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03 October 2022
26 Story Building in Brooklyn has Topped Out
A 26-story residential building on 69 Adams street in Brooklyn has hit a construction milestone and structurally topped out. Located in the DUMBO neighborhood, the...
30 September 2022
Hurricane Ian in Fort Myers Traps Residents on 22nd Floor
Hurricane Ian landed in Fort Myers, Florida in the United States on 28 September, 2022 as a Category 4 hurricane. Terry Mazany, who moved to...
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29 September 2022
Investment Firm Signs 32,281-Square-Meter Lease at Madison-Avenue Development in New York City
SL Green Realty Corp an office landlord has announced that investment management firm Franklin Templeton has signed a 15-year, 347,474 square foot (32,281 square meter)...
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28 September 2022
Site of Upcoming 15-Story Building in Harlem to Host Apartments, Not Offices in New York City
Instead of an office building, developer Extell will construct a large apartment tower on the site of the former Pathmark supermarket on East 125th Street,...
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27 September 2022
Cosmeceuticals Company Relocates Headquarters from California to Houston
The Howard Hughes Corporation has announced that Obagi Cosmeceuticals LLC is relocating its corporate headquarters from California to The Woodlands®, Texas, adding to the now...
27 September 2022
Condominium Sells for US$20.5 million in Chicago
A condominium at the St. Regis tower sold Wednesday for a little more than US$20.56 million, the highest price anyone has paid for a Chicago-area...
26 September 2022
First Look Offered for Fulton Market Site in Chicago
Chicago developer Fred Latsko unveiled a rendering of the apartment tower on tap to accompany the nation’s second Guinness brewery planned for Fulton Market. The...
23 September 2022
Developers Announce the Closing of a US$176 Million Construction Loan for Salt Lake City Project
A US$176.2 million construction loan was secured for the development of Astra Tower, a 39-story, 377-unit residential project located in a qualified opportunity zone in Downtown...
21 September 2022
Potential $240 Million Land Sale Could Clear The Way For 80-Story Condo Tower In Miami
Miami’s oldest Presbyterian church has been given clearance to move forward with the US$240 million sale of 2.2 acres (0.89 hectares) of land at 609...
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21 September 2022
Residential Building Proposed to Replace 60-Meter Hotel in Chicago
CTBUH has just received confirmation that a 143-meter residential building, 1234 West Randolph, located in Chicago has been proposed to replace a 60-meter hotel. The...
19 September 2022
Coworking Company to Open in Chicago Uptown Apartment Project
The Chicago developer turning Uptown's landmark Bridgeview Bank building into apartments has enlisted WeWork to operate co-working space on the property's lower floors, the shared-office...
16 September 2022
Vote Delayed for Landmark Status of Two Chicago Buildings
The Commission on Chicago Landmarks delayed a vote on the preliminary landmark designation of the Century and Consumers Buildings during its recent monthly meeting on...
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15 September 2022
Two Commercial Office Buildings Announced in Austin
One Ladybird Lake and 901 South Congress are two new office buildings coming to Austin. One Ladybird Lake, a joint venture partnership with Christopher Investment...
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14 September 2022
Changes to Charlotte Complex Include Increased Height
A Chicago developer said Tuesday, 13 September 2022, that it has done away with plans for a third tower at its US$750 million project on...
14 September 2022
Design Revealed for Cylindrical Mixed-Use Building in Fort Lauderdale
New York-based architecture and design studio ODA reveals the design of its newest project in South Florida, located in the Rio Vista neighborhood of Fort...
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12 September 2022
Nashville Block Tower Structurally Tops Out
CTBUH has just received confirmation that a 34-story building, located in Nashville, Tennesee in the United States has structurally topped out. The project is being...
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09 September 2022
BART Board Approves TOD of Residential Towers in Oakland
The BART Board of Directors has voted to approve plans for the Lake Merritt Transit-Oriented Development that includes two towers in Downtown Oakland. The approval...
08 September 2022
Residential Construction Begins Atop Garage in Grand Rapids
CTBUH has just received confirmation that a 22-story building, located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, US, has begun construction. The project consists of 16 floors built...
06 September 2022
Further Details about Chicago Football Team's Vision for Arlington Heights Stadium Released
The Chicago Bears have opted not to seek out public funding for a new stadium in Arlington Heights, but will pursue taxpayer support in completing...
02 September 2022
Health and Human Services Headquarters Construction Begins in Raleigh
Workers have begun demolishing a former book and mail warehouse in West Raleigh to make way for a new headquarters for the state Department of...
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01 September 2022
Tower in Downtown San Jose Pauses After Unexpected Archaeological Find
Construction on a tower in downtown San Jose has been halted after a discovery that led to an archaeological assessment of the project site and...
31 August 2022
Developers Sign Utilities Deal For Luxury 55-Story High Rise in Miami
A utility deal for water and sewer connections has been signed with the City of Miami for 710 Edge, a 55-story ultra-luxury residential high-rise planned...
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30 August 2022
Developer Lands US$200M to Build a 40-Story Residential Tower in New York City
Rockefeller Group and Park Tower Group have secured a US$200 million construction loan to build a 40-story residential tower at 16 Dupont Street as part...
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29 August 2022
A Proposed Hollywood Office Complex Gets Closer to Approval in Los Angeles
A proposed Hollywood office complex, Sunset + Wilcox, would replace a Staples office supply store and similar commercial buildings at 6450 Sunset Boulevard. The proposed...
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26 August 2022
Extensive Renovation to Convert Offices to Luxury Apartments in Downtown Houston
An iconic component of the Downtown Houston skyline is set to undergo a US$50 million renovation. The developer, Cameron Management, is planning to convert the...
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26 August 2022
25-Story Residential Building in Chicago is Up for Sale
John Buck, the Chicago-based development firm has hired Jones Lang LaSalle to sell 3Eleven, a 25-story building with 245 apartments at 311 W. Illinois St....
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25 August 2022
Boston Mixed-Use Building Built to Passive House Standards
Winthrop Center, a new 691-foot-tall (210.5-meter-tall) mixed-use tower in Boston was built to Passive House standards. The structure’s 812,000 square feet (75,437 square meters) of...
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24 August 2022
Student Housing Tower Opens Ahead of Schedule in Austin
Waterloo Tower, the tallest new student-housing tower is now open. The building was delivered ahead of schedule and is already fully leased, according to a...
23 August 2022
Cincinnati's Office-and-Retail Tower Sells for US$18 Million
After months of delays, Downtown's landmark Carew Tower has been sold. Greg Power, who owns the iconic 49-story office-and-retail tower at 441 Vine St., first...
23 August 2022
Construction Tops Out on 28-Story Residential Building in New York City
Construction has topped out on 249 East 62nd Street, a 28-story residential tower on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Designed by INC Architecture & Design with...
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22 August 2022
Two Towers are Proposed for Downtown Los Angeles
Set to be built on a site between Hill Street and California Plaza in Downtown Los Angeles, a proposed development called Angels Landing will have...
18 August 2022
New Apartment Tower is Proposed for North Miami Beach
Miami-based developer BH Group is planning to build a 30-story apartment tower, that will have 400 units at 2261 Northeast 164th Street. The purchased the...
17 August 2022
Office Tower in San Antonio will Become Residential with some Affordable Housing
The historic 1929 Tower Life Building that stands at 123.1 meters (404 ft) has plans to retrofit its office spaces for condominiums and apartments, at...
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16 August 2022
Construction Begins on New Affordable Housing Tower in New Rochelle
Simone Development Companies and Stagg Group have begun construction on West View Apartments, a 186-unit affordable housing development that marks Phase 2 of a mixed-use...
15 August 2022
Residents in Limbo After Evacuated Over Safety Concerns in Houston High-Rise
The City of Houston has pulled the occupancy permit of The Royalton at River Oaks condos where hundreds of residents had to be evacuated on...
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15 August 2022
New Renderings for a Proposed Downtown Oakland Tower
New renderings for a residential design have been published for the skyscraper redevelopment of 1431 Franklin Street in Downtown Oakland. The developer is applying for...
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12 August 2022
18 Story Building is Under Construction in Chicago
CTBUH has just received confirmation that the 18-story building, located at 210 North Aberdeen Street in Chicago has had a status change. The project designed...
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11 August 2022
Plans are Revealed for a Tall Timber Building in Chicago
Noted Chicago developer Sterling Bay is planning a nine-story, 130-unit apartment building at 2100 N Southport Avenue in the Lincoln Park neighborhood. The techniques utilized...
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11 August 2022
Twin Tower Condo Project has Groundbreaking in Honolulu
On 8 August 2022, a 44-story, 972 unit twin tower project had a groundbreaking ceremony at the three and a half acre site in the...
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10 August 2022
Demolition Permits Filed to Clear Site for New San Francisco Tower
Plans for a new development in the Bay Area outside of San Francisco have passed a new milestone. Demolition permits have been filed to remove...
09 August 2022
New Building Height is Filed for New York City Tower
On 5 August, 2022, developer Boston Properties filed new plans for the building at 343 Madison Avenue. The building's new height is listed at 237.7...
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09 August 2022
New Tower is Proposed for Downtown Los Angeles
At 700 South Flower Street in downtown Los Angeles, the Bloc is a proposal for a 53-story tower at a heigh of 216.4 meters (710...
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08 August 2022
Design Team Selected to Lead Port Authority Bus Terminal Replacement in NYC
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has revealed the that Foster + Partners and the Chicago-headquartered design and engineering firm, Epstein will...
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05 August 2022
Financial Firm will Occupy other Miami Towers Prior to Building Their Own
Citadel, a hedge fund firm headed by Ken Griffin, is in the process of completing deals for new office space as it prepares to expand...
04 August 2022
Chicago Loop Office Tower Put for Sale with Hopes to be Bought by Tech Giant
Developer John Buck is putting his LaSalle Street office tower up for sale, testing whether investors will clamor to own property on the corridor now...
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03 August 2022
Tower in Pittsburgh May be Converted into Luxury Hotel
Gulf Tower, a 44-story skyscraper that opened 90 years ago, could be converted into a luxury hotel and condominiums or apartments under a plan being...
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02 August 2022
41-Story Residential Tower Tops Off in Chicago
The Reed, a 41-story, 440-unit residential tower at 234 W. Polk, has officially topped off at 136.2 meters (447 ft.). Perched along the Chicago River,...
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01 August 2022
25-Story Hotel and Arts Tower Proposed in Harlem, NYC
According to new plans that appeared on a city website the week of July 27, 2022, a 25 story tower containing a 305-room hotel could...
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29 July 2022
Mixed-Use Building in Chicago Tops Out
The 160 N. Elizabeth Street building has reached its full height of 89.4 meters (293 feet) and 27 floors in July 2022. This mixed-use project...
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28 July 2022
Global Real Estate Firm Acquires New Office Building in Houston
Hines, the global real estate firm, today announced that Hines Global Income Trust (“HGIT”) has acquired 200 Park Place for $145 million. As one of...
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27 July 2022
Large Tech Company Announces Plan to Buy Chicago’s Thomson Center
In a surprise deal that gives new life to an iconic but aging downtown office building, Google plans to buy the James R. Thompson Center...
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26 July 2022
48-Story Hotel in Times Square is Completed and Opened
Construction is complete and occupancy has begun at the RIU Plaza Hotel, a 48-story skyscraper at 145 West 47th Street in Times Square. Designed by...
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22 July 2022
Mexico-Based JV Developers Plans 22 Story Apartment Tower in Miami
Menesse International bought the development site in Miami's financial district of Brickell at 143 Southwest Ninth Street from an affiliate of Miami-based Habitat Group. The...
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22 July 2022
High-Rise in Milwaukee Takes Title of World’s Tallest Mass Timber Hybrid
On July 20, 2022 New Land Enterprises welcomed the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) and the Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional...
21 July 2022
Houston's Parkside Residences at Discovery Green is Completed
CTBUH has just recieved confirmation that 43-story Parkside Residencies at Discovery Green in Houston, Texas has reached CTBUH's base-level criteria for completion. Several units are...
20 July 2022
Three-Year-Old Boy Dies After Fall From Chicago Building
Officials say that a three-year-old boy has died after he fell more than 15 stories from a window of an Uptown residence on the evening...
20 July 2022
Global Architecture Firm Opens New Office in Denver
Global architecture firm Goettsch Partners (GP) has opened a new office in Denver, Colorado. As of July 1 2022, the firm has taken space in...
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19 July 2022
Demolition Begins for 741 N Wells Street in Chicago
Following up on a demolition permit article, partial site clearing has begun for a 21-story mixed-use tower at 741 N Wells Street in River North....
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19 July 2022
Residential Building in Miami Beach Anticipated to Complete in 2024
Japan-based Kengo Kuma and Associates has unveiled the design for what will become the firm’s first residential tower in the United States. The 18-story building,...
18 July 2022
New Tenant for Redeveloped Marshall Field Building in Chicago
Parsippany, New Jersey-based Ferrero North America announced they will open a 45,000-square-foot (4,180-square-meter) facility next year in the landmark Marshall Field building at 24 E....
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15 July 2022
Mixed-Use 425 Grand Concourse Completes Construction in the Bronx, New York
The 86.9-meter, 26-story mixed-use building in Mott Haven, Bronx in New York City has completed construction. Designed by Dattner Architects and developed by Trinity Financial...
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13 July 2022
Construction Breaks Ground at 28-Story Residential Building in New York City
Excavation has begun at 126 East 57th Street, site of a 28-story residential tower on Billionaires’ Row in Midtown East, Manhattan. Designed by ODA Architecture...
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12 July 2022
Developers Celebrate the Grand Opening of Residential Building in Brooklyn
Developers recently celebrated the grand opening of Magnolia DUMBO, a 21-story residential building at 160 Front Street in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Designed by Morris Adjmi Architects...
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12 July 2022
Miami Office Tower Tops Out at 55 Stories
In Miami, construction of OKO Group and Cain International’s 830 Brickell office tower is nearing completion. The building’s general contractor, Civic Construction, recently topped off...
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11 July 2022
NYC Tower Completion Date Updates and New Tenants
The 58-story commercial tower developed by Brookfield Properties is slated for completion in 2023 and recently confirmed that the international law firm Clifford Chance has...
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08 July 2022
High-Rise Building Condemned After Fire in Revere
Residents of the Water's Edge Apartments at 370 Ocean Ave. learned on 6 July 2022 that the 16-story building has been condemned two weeks after...
07 July 2022
Developer of Chicago Office Towers Expands into Residential
A developer that has built three trophy office towers near the Chicago River in recent years is planning its first apartment project in the city,...
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06 July 2022
Progress Continues on Mandarin Oriental Residencies in Manhattan
Work is continuing to progress on the Mandarin Oriental Residences Fifth Avenue, a 29-story building at 685 Fifth Avenue in Midtown and the first east...
05 July 2022
St. Louis Tower Passes Key Milestone Toward Final Approval
A St. Louis board approved a series of variances for a new 30-story apartment tower in the Central West End, bringing the US$135 million project...
01 July 2022
Miami Tower Featured in Music Video Sold
Oak Row Equities announced that it has closed on the acquisition of a 2.1-acre (0.8-hectare) site on one of the last remaining undeveloped city blocks...
30 June 2022
Luxury Condominium Development Breaks Ground in Downtown St. Petersburg
Florida-based real estate development and investment firm Kolter Urban has broken ground on Art House, a 42-story luxury condominium development located at 200 Central Avenue...
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28 June 2022
Demolition, Excavation Continue For Potential Supertall At 570 Fifth Avenue In Midtown, New York City
Demolition is progressing at 570 Fifth Avenue, the site of a potential supertall skyscraper in Midtown, Manhattan. Developed by Extell, the tower could reach an...
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27 June 2022
Mixed-Use Tower Proposed in Fort Lauderdale
Plans for a new 48-story mixed-use tower named 11 Andrews have been submitted to Fort Lauderdale’s Design Review Committee (DRC) for review. The project is...
24 June 2022
Brutalist Building Converted into "Passive House" Hotel
Architecture studio Becker + Becker has converted a 1970s brutalist building in New Haven, designed by Hungarian-American architect Marcel Breuer, into a Passive House hotel. Connecticut-based...
23 June 2022
Future Orlando Skyscraper Makes Progress Towards Breaking Ground
A building that is expected to become among downtown Orlando’s new tallest skyscraper just took a big step toward breaking ground. Developers of the property...
23 June 2022
Rhode Island Supreme Court Clears Way for Skyscraper in Providence
The proposed US$300 million Hope Point Tower project at 250 Dyer St. in the city’s Jewelry District was approved by the city more than three...
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23 June 2022
Excavation Underway for 51-Story Residential Tower in New York City
Excavation has begun for The Brook, a 51-story residential skyscraper at 589 Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn. Designed by Beyer Blinder Belle and developed by...
22 June 2022
Laboratory Company Opening Office in Chicago's Tallest Building
Abbott Laboratories is opening a big new office at Willis Tower that could bring as many as 450 jobs downtown, a move meant to provide...
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22 June 2022
Two-Building Residential Complex Breaks Ground in Jersey City, Signs Anchor Tenant
On June 16, 2022, principals of Kushner hosted Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop and other dignitaries to mark the true beginning of their 1,723-unit One...
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21 June 2022
Construction to Start Summer 2022 on 27-Story Durham Skyscraper in Place of 1970s Bank
Construction is poised to begin in June 2022 on a glassy 27-story skyscraper that will transform the Durham skyline and bring a wealth of residential...
21 June 2022
Downtown Salt Lake City Office Skyscraper to be Converted to Housing
The global development company Hines announced it has acquired the 24-story South Temple Tower building with the intention of renovating the building and converting 217,000...
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20 June 2022
Over 2,200 Apartments Proposed Near Casino Site in Chicago
One of Fulton Market District's most prolific developers wants to build more than 2,200 apartments and a hotel on a series of sites between the...
16 June 2022
Foundation Permit Issued For 47-Story Residential Tower in Miami
A phased foundation permit has been issued to Miami-based real estate developer Related Group for a 47-story residential tower at 77 Southeast 5th Street in...
15 June 2022
Milwaukee Office Building Could be Redeveloped
The 100 East office tower in Milwaukee could be partially converted to apartments, condominiums, or a hotel as part of resolving the foreclosure case facing...
13 June 2022
Proposal for 524 New Homes in San Francisco Progresses
Trada has filed a request for a project review meeting with city staff for 395 3rd Street, a 36-story mixed-use infill proposed in SoMa, San...
13 June 2022
Second-Highest Condo at St. Regis Sells in Chicago
A condominium nearly at the top of the new St. Regis sold for US$9.2 million, the highest recorded sale price so far in the Studio...
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10 June 2022
Developer Proposes Residential San Diego Tower
A developer is proposing a 37-story residential tower in downtown San Diego, adding to a growing list of new projects. San Francisco-based Cresley Homes, which has...
09 June 2022
Launch of Sales Announced for West Palm Beach High-Rise
Palm Beach-based real estate investment firm, Frisbie Group, and global real estate company, Hines, today announced the launch of sales for South Flagler House located...
09 June 2022
Luxury Residential Development Nears Completion in Chelsea, New York City
Work is wrapping up on The Cortland, a 26-story residential tower at 555 West 22nd Street in West Chelsea. Designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects...
07 June 2022
Construction Completed At 368 Third Avenue In New York City
Construction is complete on VU, a 36-story residential tower at 368 Third Avenue in the Midtown, Manhattan neighborhood of Kips Bay. Designed by SLCE Architects...
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06 June 2022
Nashville Venue Owner Purchases Austin Hotel
The Nashville company that owns the Grand Ole Opry has purchased a large piece of the Austin music scene. Stratus Properties sold Block 21, site...
06 June 2022
Luxury Hotel Brand Signs on to Downtown Phoenix Property
Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, a global chain of luxury hotels, has signed a definitive agreement for the development and management of a new hotel and...
03 June 2022
Proposal for Pair of Terrace-Wrapped Residential Towers Revealed in Fort Lauderdale
New York City–based design and architecture studio ODA has proposed a sizable mixed-use project with a duo of sculptural, 43-story residential towers topping a nine-story...
03 June 2022
Sprawling Multi-Use Development Approved in Dallas
Spanning four acres (1.6 hectares) north of Downtown Dallas, the District development will include luxury residences, retail spaces, offices, and a boutique hotel. A public...
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01 June 2022
Limestone-Clad Skyscraper in New York City Reaches Completion
Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza has revealed the 611 West 56th Street skyscraper in Manhattan, which is the architect's first building in the United States. The 440-foot-tall...
31 May 2022
Person Dies After Falling from West Palm Beach High-Rise Under Construction
A South Florida flooring company employee died after she fell from the 13th floor of a high-rise condominium under construction in West Palm Beach, police...
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27 May 2022
Foundation Permits Issued For Hotel and Residences in Miami Skyscraper
Foundation permits have been issued for 300 Biscayne Boulevard, the site of the upcoming 98-story Waldorf Astoria Hotel & Residences. The project’s developers, Property Markets...
26 May 2022
Demolition Underway For Residential Skyscraper In Hell’s Kitchen, New York City
Demolition has begun at 550 Tenth Avenue, the site of a 47-story residential skyscraper in Hell’s Kitchen. Designed by Handel Architects and developed by Gotham...
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23 May 2022
Plaza Transformation Moves Forward with Plans for a 60-Story High-Rise in Jersey City
A 60-story tower with a new supermarket could join an area that is already set for a massive transformation right across from the Sixth Street...
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23 May 2022
New Luxury High-Rise Coming to Henderson
The City of Henderson has approved a new high-rise condo development. Construction will soon begin on the Pinnacle Residencies, located inside Macdonald Highlands. This will be...
19 May 2022
New Renderings Released for Mixed-Use Project in Detroit
Dan Gilbert's real estate firm has released updated renderings of what its ambitious Hudson's site development will look like once construction finishes in a few...
19 May 2022
Surfside Condo Collapse Tentative Settlement Reaches Nearly US$1 Billion
A nearly US$1 billion tentative settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit brought by families of victims and survivors of June’ 2021's condominium collapse...
18 May 2022
Demolished Upper East Side Block Being Replaced By Apartment Building in New York City
A stretch of Upper East Side walk-up buildings that were torn down in recent months will be replaced by an 18-story apartment tower, according to...
17 May 2022
Developer Plans 20-Story, 139-Unit Multifamily Project in Miami
Developer Blue Road won conditional approval to build a 20-story, 139-unit multifamily project in North Miami. Emblem Tower Apartments is planned for a site just west...
17 May 2022
Rental Project Completes Construction In Jersey City
Construction is complete on 351 Marin Boulevard, a 38-story rental tower in the Powerhouse Arts District of Jersey City. Designed by Hollwich Kushner and HLW...
16 May 2022
Grand Opening of New High-Rise Apartment Building Takes Place in Dallas
Toll Brothers Apartment Living®, the rental subsidiary of Toll Brothers, Inc. has announced the grand opening of Aster, the company’s new 22-story, 270-unit luxury high-rise...
13 May 2022
Excavation Underway at Residential Tower on Manhattan’s Upper East Side in New York City
Excavation is progressing at 250-252 East 83rd Street, the site of a 23-story residential tower in the Yorkville section of the Upper East Side. Designed...
13 May 2022
High-Rise Complex Planned for Landmark Los Angeles Mall
Primestor Development, which owns the approximately 20-acre (8-hectare) Panorama Mall at 8401 N. Van Nuys Boulevard, filed plans in April of 2022 with the City...
12 May 2022
27-Story Uptown Apartment Tower Hits the Market in Chicago
The developers of a 27-story apartment tower in Uptown have decided to sell the property, one of the biggest residential buildings in the North Side...
12 May 2022
131-141 East 47th Street Tops Out Over Midtown East in New York City
Construction has topped out on 131-141 East 47th Street, a 35-story residential skyscraper in Midtown East. Designed by Ismael Leyva Architects and developed by Lex...
11 May 2022
Demolition Permits Issued To Make Way For 44-Story Miami Residential Building
Full demolition permits have been issued by the City of Miami for the removal of a 20,000-square-foot (1,858-square-meter) structure located at 99 Southwest 7th Street,...
11 May 2022
Minneapolis Public Service Building to be Designed with a Gridded Façade
Global firm Henning Larsen Architects prioritized openness and connectivity to create a Minnesota government building that is part of a "new coalition of civic architecture...
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10 May 2022
Casino Details for Downtown Chicago Revealed
Mayor Lori Lightfoot has picked a winning casino for the City of Chicago: It's Bally's, which will get the right to build and operate the...
09 May 2022
Chicago Apartment Developer Eyes Another Massive Riverfront Project
The Canadian developer planning to build almost 2,700 apartments on the southern tip of Goose Island has a deal to buy another big development site...
09 May 2022
Historic Theatre Lifted Nearly 10 Meters During Construction of New York City Hotel Tower
Construction on TSX Broadway has reached a significant milestone with the completion of the historic Palace Theatre’s lift to its new position 30 feet (9.1...
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06 May 2022
Retail Giant Executive Buys Condo in News Tower Development in Chicago
A Walmart executive is the latest buyer at the renovated Tribune Towers condo development. Judith McKenna, president and CEO of Walmart’s international division, and her...
06 May 2022
Construction Begins on Carbon Efficient Denver Hotel
As construction begins on Populus, a Denver hotel designed by architecture firm Studio Gang, developer Urban Villages has announced that it has aspirations to be...
03 May 2022
Delayed River North Condo Building in Chicago Tries a New Name
Giving an Erie Street building the appellation of a wine region is part of the effort to uncork sales at the 31-unit building, where one...
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03 May 2022
Upscale Apartment Planned for Former High-Rise Site in Houston
A luxury apartment building is in the works at the former site of the planned Ashby high-rise at 1717 Bissonnet St., Houston. El Paso-based Hunt...
02 May 2022
Residential Tower Climbs Beyond Halfway Mark In Jersey City
Construction has passed the halfway mark on 413 Summit Avenue, a 19-story residential tower in the Journal Square section of Jersey City. Designed by Uforma...
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29 April 2022
Hard Rock Hotel Opens For Business in Time Square in New York City
The Hard Rock Hotel at 159 West 48th Street is the newest hotel to open in Midtown, Manhattan’s iconic Times Square district. Designed by SLCE...
28 April 2022
Tech Giant HQ Gets Permission to Build in Arlington
The spiral-shaped glass tower designed by architecture studio NBBJ for Amazon's second headquarters has been given permission to be built in Arlington, Virginia. Called The...
28 April 2022
New York City Developers Propose 44-Story Mixed-Use Skyscraper For Downtown Jacksonville’s Riverfront
American Lions LLC, a joint venture between New York City-based residential developers Fetner Properties and the Lions Group, have proposed to develop a 44-story mixed-use...
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26 April 2022
Foundations Underway For Third Tower in Residential Complex In Jersey City
Foundations are progressing for Journal Squared Tower 3, a 60-story residential skyscraper and the final component in the three-building complex in Journal Square, Jersey City....
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25 April 2022
Mixed-Use Building at Downtown Brooklyn Campus Reaches Completion
Construction is complete on The Willoughby, a 34-story mixed-use tower at 196 Willoughby Street on Long Island University‘s Downtown Brooklyn campus. Designed by Perkins Eastman...
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22 April 2022
U.S. West Coast Firms to Build an Office Tower in Austin
Two real estate firms on the West Coast are teaming up on a new Downtown Austin skyscraper. Lincoln Property Company and its equity partner DivcoWest announced...
21 April 2022
Developer Breaks Ground on 32-Story Downtown Apartments in San Antonio
Weston Urban's next big skyline-altering project in San Antonio is underway, kicking off the Frost Tower developer's refocus on the residential market. Dallas-based builder Rogers-O'Brien...
21 April 2022
Harrisburg University Finishes Construction on US$100 Million Tower
Harrisburg University is nearing completion on the outside portion of its new US$110 million Science Education Center in downtown Harrisburg. The last days for final lifts,...
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21 April 2022
Former Bank Building in Detroit Redeveloped as Mixed-Use Project
A long-vacant bank building in Southgate has been sold, with announced plans for a major redevelopment project. On Monday, 19 April, 2022, Friedman Real Estate announced...
20 April 2022
Two High-Rise Buildings Planned for Dallas
A New Jersey developer is planning a 27-story high-rise in Dallas’ Design District as part of a complex it is developing. A real estate development...
19 April 2022
Construction of Vertical Medical City Announced in Orlando
Ponte Health Global Corporation has announced the establishment of the Vertical Medical City Foundation, in Florida, to promote the progress of Geriatric Medical, Geriatric Biomedical,...
19 April 2022
Condo in Chicago's Gold Coast Sells for US$17.4 Million
A condo at super-luxury building No. 9 Walton sold in March, 2022 for US$17.4 million, the second-highest price so far in a year where the...
18 April 2022
Downtown Chicago Office Buildings Slowly Bounce Back in Year Three of the Pandemic
Demand for Chicago offices is starting to emerge as the pandemic wanes. The conundrum resulted in a new record-high vacancy rate of 21.2 percent in the...
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15 April 2022
First Official Renderings Revealed for New Bank Headquarters in New York City
Foster + Partners has been announced as the architect for JPMorgan Chase‘s 60-story headquarters at 270 Park Avenue, and has released the first set of...
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13 April 2022
Stalled New York City Complex Set to Resume Construction
Construction is set to resume on The XI, with a revised completion date of “Winter 2024” posted for the stalled two-tower mixed-use project at 76...
11 April 2022
Water Tower Place Lender Taking Over Chicago Mall
About a year after losing Macy’s, its largest tenant, the owner of big North Michigan Avenue shopping mall, Brookfield Property Partners, has decided to hand...
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08 April 2022
Residential, Hotel, and Theater Harlem Development to Move Forward
A development that will bring apartments, retail and more arts to an uptown New York City cultural center is moving forward. Lam Group and Exact Capital...
07 April 2022
Retired Airplane to be Suspended Between a Seattle Complex
Japan-based architecture firm OSO has released a plan to suspend a Boeing 747 aircraft between two towers in a downtown Seattle complex designed by Henriquez...
07 April 2022
Hotel Nears Halfway Mark in Manhattan, New York City
Construction is nearing the halfway mark on H Hotel W39, a 29-story hotel tower at 58 West 39th Street in Midtown. Designed by Peter F....
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05 April 2022
Developer Buys Uptown Museum Site With Plans for High-Rise Apartment Building in Charlotte
The Levine Museum of the New South has sold its uptown building for US$10.75 million to a New York developer that plans to build luxury...
01 April 2022
Chicago Investor in Megadeal for Wacker Drive Tower
Chicago real estate investor Tim Callahan has returned to the downtown office market, partnering with a New York firm to buy the 55-story tower at...
31 March 2022
Lobby and Atrium of Denver Tower Revamped
Design studio MAWD has redone the interiors of an IM Pei tower in Denver, Colorado, including the lobby and an adjoining Philip Johnson-designed atrium. The...
30 March 2022
San Francisco’s Iconic Transamerica Tower to Receive Retrofit
Foster + Partners is set to give San Francisco’s landmark Transamerica Tower its biggest overhaul in the building’s 50-year history. The US$250 million scheme for developer...
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25 March 2022
Social Media Company Nears Deal for Larger Office in Chicago's Fulton Market
After its deal to lease a new office in the Fulton Market District fell through, social media app company Snap has set its sights on...
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25 March 2022
57-Story Apartment Building to Rise Across from Seattle City Hall
A permit was issued Wednesday, 16 March, 2022 to allow shoring and excavation work on unfinished lot on Third & Cherry, across from Seattle City...
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24 March 2022
Atlanta Residential Building Continues Unit Sales
Seven88 West Midtown, a high-rise residential condominium in West Midtown, brings sales in-house with agents from McKinley Homes. The condo building is now open seven...
23 March 2022
Firm Announces Sales for their First Miami Beach Condo Tower
The Perigon has just launched sales in Miami Beach, becoming the first ever condo tower in the city designed by Rem Koolhaas’s OMA. The 17-story tower...
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23 March 2022
New York City University Expansion Nears Completion
Construction is nearing completion on NYU‘s campus expansion at 181 Mercer Street in Greenwich Village. Designed by Davis Brody Bond and KieranTimberlake, the 735,000-square-foot (68,283-square-meter)...
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22 March 2022
Finalized Plans for Louisville Complex Unveiled
Seven years and 17 public meetings later, finalized plans for the last portion of the controversial One Park plaza project near Cherokee Park have been...
21 March 2022
Construction Permits Filed for 73-Story Residential Condo Tower In Miami
New construction permits have been filed for Baccarat Residences, a 73-story residential skyscraper located at 99 Southeast 5th Street in Brickell. The permit filing has...
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18 March 2022
Third Ward Board Approves New Tower in Milwaukee
The Historic Third Ward Architectural Review Board gave final approval Wednesday, 16 March, 2022 to a plan to construct a 31-story apartment tower at the...
18 March 2022
Architect Tapped for Major Hoboken Waterfront Redevelopment Plan
In Hoboken, New Jersey, a waterfront redevelopment may soon bring new housing, offices, retail, and public space to an area surrounding the city's major interstate...
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16 March 2022
Latest Addition to Austin's Skyline to be 58-Story Skyscraper
Joining a recent spate of new tower announcements, a partnership between two developers says it has started work on a 58-story, 675-foot-tall (205-meter-tall) skyscraper that...
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16 March 2022
Cancer Care Tower to Rise 31 Stories in New York City
The medical tower boom on the Upper East Side will continue with a new 31-story pavilion planned by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the organization...
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15 March 2022
15-Story Affordable Housing Coming To East Harlem in New York City
A 15-story affordable apartment tower will soon replace a row of buildings on an East Harlem block, according to new plans. Developer Elie Fouerti filed plans...
15 March 2022
Major Brands Fill Fulton Market Office Building in Chicago
The company that makes White Claw and billionaire Lukas Walton's philanthropic and investment venture have leased new Fulton Market District offices, helping fill the remaining...
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11 March 2022
Boston Hotel and Residences Tops Out at 35 Stories
Raffles Boston Back Bay Hotel & Residences, part of world hospitality group Accor, topped off on 3 March, 2022, reaching 35 floors and raising a...
10 March 2022
Downtown San Francisco Complex Officially Opens
After years of planning and development, the 5M project celebrated its official opening. Located on a 4-acre (1.6-hectare) site in the heart of Downtown San Francisco,...
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10 March 2022
Developer Closes on Site in Jersey City for Residential Development
A developer has acquired a series of parcels on the west side of Jersey City for US$25.5 million, with plans calling for a large residential...
09 March 2022
This Cannabis Firm Lease in Chicago Would Mark a New Trend
One of Chicago's publicly traded marijuana companies is close to leasing space for a new headquarters in River North, a potential breakthrough for cannibis firms...
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08 March 2022
Former John Hancock Center Seeking Medical Tenants in Chicago
Chicago-based real estate firm Hearn is looking for medical providers to move into the former John Hancock Center, now formally known as 875 North Michigan...
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07 March 2022
Brooklyn Residential High-Rise Tops Out
Exterior work is finishing up on One Bell Slip, a 30-story residential tower in Greenpoint, Brooklyn‘s Greenpoint Landing waterfront master plan. Designed by Handel Architects...
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07 March 2022
Chicago Mixed-Use Supertall Makes its Highest-Priced Sale to Date
A condominium on the 80th floor of the new St. Regis tower, formerly known as Vista, sold for nearly US$8.85 million. The condo, about 6,400 square...
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04 March 2022
Residential Renderings Revealed in Fort Lauderdale
300 West Broward, in Fort Lauderdale's Downtown comprises two 38-story volumes on top of a shared 10-story podium, bringing together a mixed use program of...
02 March 2022
Agreement Announced to Preserve Affordable Housing At New York City Tower for 30 Years
Inwood Tower, a New York State-supervised Mitchell-Lama cooperative, will remain an affordable housing property for the next 30 years following an agreement forged by Governor...
28 February 2022
Mutual of Omaha Seeking Funding for New Skyscraper
Mutual of Omaha is requesting up to US$68.6 million in tax-increment financing to help with construction of a new skyscraper in downtown Omaha. If the city...
25 February 2022
Major Hotel Brand Ends Partnership with Chicago High-Rise Hotel
As they stare down a US$70 million foreclosure lawsuit, the owners of the Conrad Chicago hotel have split with Hilton Worldwide as the shuttered inn's...
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24 February 2022
Developer Offers First Look at 43-Story Houston Tower
Developers of a new 43-story skyscraper rising near Discovery Green Park have named the luxury apartment building Parkside Residences and expect to complete the 309-unit...
21 February 2022
New York City Upper West Side Tower Secures Sizable Construction Loan
After some legal issues, Gary Barnett’s Extell Development is beginning to make progress on an Upper West Side condo tower. Extell landed US$967 million in...
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21 February 2022
311 West Huron Interiors Revealed in Chicago
CTBUH has just received an update on the interiors of 311 West Huron in Chicago, US. The project is being designed by NORR Group Consultants...
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18 February 2022
Offer Placed on $30 Million Unfinished Penthouse in Chicago
The unfinished penthouse at the top of Trump International Hotel & Tower is tentatively under contract to a buyer. The unit, more than 14,200 square feet...
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18 February 2022
Planned Tower Stalled Over Neighborhood Concerns
A developer has said that an Upper East Side synagogue is unfairly blocking the construction of a 20-story tower next door—but the synagogue contends that...
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17 February 2022
Company Proposes 45-Story Tower for Site of Famous Seattle Car Wash
It’s been almost a year and a half since the Elephant Super Car Wash was demolished and the historic pink signs were dismantled at Denny...
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17 February 2022
Long Island University Student Center Could be Supplanted with a 29-Story Residential Tower
The designers behind a Brooklyn luxury building want to build an apartment tower where a Long Island University student center currently stands, permits show.The new...
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16 February 2022
Downtown Durham YMCA set for Major Transformation
The downtown Durham YMCA is set for a radical transformation in the coming years, after agreeing to a deal with a developer to build a...
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14 February 2022
Plans in the Works to Demolish Raleigh Hotel for 20-Story Building
The iconic circular Holiday Inn in downtown Raleigh is still open for now. The days are winding down before it is demolished and replaced by...
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11 February 2022
Mixed-Use Building Tops Out in New York City
Construction has topped out on TSX Broadway, a 46-story mixed-use hotel tower at 1568 Broadway in Times Square. Designed by Perkins Eastman and Mancini Duffy...
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10 February 2022
New York-Based Developers Propose Residential Project in Fort Lauderdale
A pair of New York-based developers have filed plans with the Development Review Committee of the City of Fort Lauderdale seeking approvals for the construction...
09 February 2022
Exterior Begins to Take Shape on Topped-Out New York City Complex
Façade installation has begun on 595 Dean Street, a two-building mixed-use development in the Pacific Park complex in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Designed by Handel Architects...
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08 February 2022
Mixed-Use Building Proposed for Chicago's Fulton Market
CTBUH has just received confirmation that a tall building has been proposed for the Fulton Market neighborhood in Chicago, US. 170 Green is a mixed-use...
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08 February 2022
Residential Building Reaches Completion in New York City
The certificate of occupancy was released to 102 Charlton Street on 12 January, 2022, which is a 22-story residential building in Hudson Square. Designed by...
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07 February 2022
Talent Agency to Move to New Headquarters in Los Angeles
Los Angeles talent and sports agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA) has announced that it will be moving from its current Century City offices at 2000...
04 February 2022
Updated Plans Revealed For Mixed-Use Development in Chicago's West Loop
Updated renderings and plans have been revealed for a mixed-use development at 640 W Washington Boulevard in West Loop Gate. Located just east of the...
03 February 2022
Redevelopment Project to Deliver Housing, Offices, and Retail to Los Angeles Site
Plans to redevelop a storage facility next to Metro's La Cienega/Jefferson Station with housing, offices, and retail are moving forward, with the publication of a...
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02 February 2022
Groundbreaking for Luxury Car Residences to Take Place Soon
Luxury carmakers Aston Martin and Porsche have initiated architectural design projects and now Bentley Motors is following suite with a Bentley-branded residential tower in Sunny...
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01 February 2022
Proposal for New Residential Development in Arlington Moves Forward
After years of delays, plans for half of an undeveloped parcel of land in Potomac Yard, called Land Bay C East, are taking shape. Two...
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01 February 2022
Applications will be Accepted for New Affordable Housing Units in Honolulu
The Hale Kalele affordable rental housing project is projected to be completed in May, 2022. The project is currently architecturally topped out. The Kobayashi group...
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31 January 2022
Rhodes State Office Tower Renovation Wraps Up in Columbus
The largest Ohio state renovation project in quite some time has reached completion, US$5 million under budget and a few hours before deadline. Workers finished...
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28 January 2022
Fire in Honolulu High-Rise Ruled Accidental
A two-alarm fire at a high-rise building in Kakaako on Sunday, Jan 23, 2022 was started by accident, the Honolulu Fire Department says. Nearly 45...
28 January 2022
Plan Revealed for Downtown Omaha Skyscraper Along Streetcar Line
Downtown Omaha may see a new high-rise corporate headquarters and a new midtown streetcar line—with no projected tax increase—under a new development plan announced by Mutual...
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28 January 2022
New York City Office Set for US$100M Redevelopment
Nearly two years after Brookfield Properties and WatermanClark took control of the Lever House at 390 Park Avenue, the developers are ready to put their...
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27 January 2022
Investors Near Deals to Buy Office Towers in Chicago's Downtown
A pair of investors backed by foreign capital are poised to take over two prominent downtown office buildings in deals totaling US$400 million, deals that...
27 January 2022
Midtown Skyscraper Tops Out in New York City
Two Manhattan West, a 58-story commercial tower, has officially topped out in Midtown West. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the 935-foot-tall (285-meter-tall) 2-million-square-foot (185,806...
26 January 2022
Rooftop Fire Sends Smoke Billowing Over Center City Philadelphia
Heavy smoke could be seen billowing from a high-rise in Center City Philadelphia on Sunday, 23 January, 2022. The flames broke out around 11:30 a.m....
25 January 2022
Dual-Brand New York City Hotel Opens
Construction is complete and occupancy has begun at 140 West 28th Street, a 46-story dual-brand Marriott Hotel tower in Chelsea. Designed by Gene Kaufman Architect...
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25 January 2022
Renderings Revealed For Proposed Twin Towers in Fort Lauderdale
Renderings from Sieger Suarez Architects have been revealed for two identical towers of 40 and 45 stories proposed as a mixed-use development at 300 and...
24 January 2022
One Injured in Fire at Downtown Los Angeles High-Rise Building
Firefighters extinguished a fire that broke out on the ground floor of a multi-story, high-rise building in downtown Los Angeles Monday morning, 24 January, 2022. The...
24 January 2022
Office Tower Renovation Completed in New York City
ABS Partners Real Estate has completed a US$50 million renovation of LX57, a 20-story office tower at 695 Lexington Avenue in Sutton Place, Manhattan. Led...
21 January 2022
A Historic Miami Beach Hotel May Get Demolished
When the Beatles stayed in Miami Beach in 1964, they stayed at the Deauville Beach Resort on Collins Avenue, and it was their live “Ed...
20 January 2022
Charlotte Office Tower to Break Ground
Construction of a 23-story office tower in South End will begin in January, adding another high-rise to the fast-growing neighborhood. Developers out of Florida and...
20 January 2022
Housing Lottery Launches For 143 Units in Downtown Brooklyn
The affordable housing lottery has launched for The Willoughby, a 34-story mixed-use building at 196 Willoughby Street in Downtown Brooklyn. Designed by Perkins Eastman and...
19 January 2022
NYC Project's Superstructure Climbs Above Midtown East
Construction has reached the halfway point on 131-141 East 47th Street, a 34-story residential skyscraper in Midtown East. Designed by Ismael Leyva Architects and developed...
17 January 2022
Work Begins on Salt Lake City Skyscraper
Developers from Boston are moving forward with the construction of a new luxury residential building on State Street that could be among Salt Lake City’s...
17 January 2022
Pre-Application Initiated For Miami Development
A pre-application has been initiated for an administrative site plan review with the Miami-Dade County Department of Regulatory and Economic Resources for 700 North Miami...
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14 January 2022
Houston Hotel Officially Opens
The Laura Hotel, Autograph Collection has officially opened its doors in Houston's lively central business district. Featuring 223 contemporary guest rooms, a restaurant and a...
14 January 2022
Downtown Los Angeles 24-Story Residential Project Planned
A 13 January 2022 meeting of the Glendale Design Review Board unveiled renderings for Lucia Park, a residential high-rise planned just south of the 134...
14 January 2022
Massive Fulton Market Mixed-Use Project Proposed in Chicago
A Chicago developer is preparing to unveil plans for a US$600 million mixed-use project in the Fulton Market District, the biggest real estate development to...
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13 January 2022
US$127 Million Loan Obtained for Office Campus in The Woodlands
A fund managed by CIM Group has provided a US$127 million loan to The Howard Hughes Corp. to refinance a 649,406-square-foot (60,331-square-meter) Class A office...
11 January 2022
Group Secures US$72 Million Financial Package To Construct New Development in New York City
The Rabsky Group recently closed on a US$72 million construction loan to complete a new high-rise residential building at 240 Willoughby Street in Fort Greene,...
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11 January 2022
Bronx High-Rise Apartment Fire Kills 17, including Nine Children
A malfunctioning space heater sparked a fire that filled a high-rise Bronx apartment building with thick smoke Sunday morning, 9 January, 2022 killing 19 people...
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10 January 2022
San Francisco Tower Leaning at Rate of 3 Inches Per Year
The engineer responsible for the troubled fix of the Millennium Tower acknowledged that the building is continuing to tilt about 3 inches a year since...
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07 January 2022
Rendering Unveiled for Cooper Park Commons in New York City
A rendering has been unveiled for 89 Maspeth Avenue, a 100-percent affordable development in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn with 311 residences. The design architect is Architecture...
07 January 2022
New Renderings of Miami Triple-Tower Project Revealed
Developer Kushner Companies has revealed new renderings of a three-tower project called Edgewater Collective. According to a recent update to Kushner’s website, Edgewater Collective will...
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06 January 2022
New Renderings Revealed of San Francisco University Layered Hospital
UCSF has released the latest renderings of a new hospital that will be built at its Parnassus Heights campus in San Francisco. Designed by Herzog...
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05 January 2022
Permits Issued For Auction House Overbuild in Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square
Permits have been issued for a multi-family overbuild above the historic Freeman’s Auction House, located at 1810 Chestnut Street in Rittenhouse Square, Center City. Designed...
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04 January 2022
Chicago Office Tower Valued at Over US$1 Billion in Purchase by Oak Hill Advisors
A venture led by Oak Hill Advisors has agreed to buy a controlling interest in a new 55-story office tower in Chicago. Oak Hill has...
03 January 2022
High-Rise Revealed For Lot in Sacramento
New plans have been revealed for a multi-structure development with a 30-story tower at Lot X, overlooking the yellow Tower Bridge in Downtown Sacramento. The...
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23 December 2021
Permits Filed For A 68-Story Skyscraper in Midtown, New York City
Permits have been filed for a 68-story mixed-use building at 100 West 37th Street in Midtown, Manhattan. Located between Broadway and Sixth Avenue, the lot...
23 December 2021
Permits Issued For 40-Story Tower in Miami
Construction permits have been issued for 697 North Miami Avenue, a 40-story mixed-use building planned to rise behind the 43-story Caoba tower at the 27-acre...
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22 December 2021
City Council Approves Williamsburg Project
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is officially getting a bookend to the East River after New York’s City Council gave its final approval to the Two Trees Management-developed...
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21 December 2021
City Council Approves Hotel Redevelopment at 175 Park Avenue in New York City
The New York City Council voted on Wednesday to allow the proposed development at the site currently occupied by the Grand Hyatt Hotel at 175...
21 December 2021
New York City Moves to Ban Gas in New Buildings in Growing Trend
On Wednesday, New York City, became the largest city in the country to agree to phase out fossil fuels in all new building construction after...
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20 December 2021
Three Skyscrapers in Atlanta's Midtown Advance
As 2021 draws to a close, Midtown’s status as a densifying boomtown within the city shows few signs of abating. Indications are that three more...
17 December 2021
Height Revealed of San Francisco Residential Tower
Hines has announced that 50 Main Street will rise 1,066 feet tall (324 meters tall) potentially becoming among the tallest structures in San Francisco. If...
17 December 2021
Ascent, Milwaukee Structurally Tops Out
New Land Enterprises and development partner Wiechmann Enterprises celebrate milestone as mass timber construction is structurally topped out. Earlier this week, the final mass timber beams,...
16 December 2021
Iconic Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Being Sold
GM Resorts announced Monday that it had agreed to sell the iconic Mirage Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, to Hard Rock International for...
13 December 2021
In Exchange for Constructing New Subway Elevators, Taller New York City Skyscraper Approved
A developer will get to build a taller skyscraper in exchange for constructing elevators at a Midtown subway station, officials announced Tuesday, 7 December, 2021...
13 December 2021
A New 18-Story Residential Tower to Replace Two Masonry Buildings in Chicago, US
Demolition permits have been issued for a long-anticipated West Loop site in Chicago USA, clearing the way for a new 18-story residential tower. Addressed at...
10 December 2021
Property Group Planning Four 60-Story Towers in Miami
Developer Melo Group is planning to redevelop an entire city block at 1700 Biscayne, Miami with four towers rising to 60 stories. The preliminary plans...
10 December 2021
New Loan Acquired to Resume Construction of Helmut Jahn’s South Loop Tower in Chicago
Construction is set to restart at a 74-story Helmut Jahn-designed building in downtown Chicago after developers secured a US$305 million loan and changed plans to...
09 December 2021
Plans Submitted to Build 197-Meter (649-Foot) Towers in Downtown Miami
Developer Crescent Heights has submitted plans to build a giant mixed-use complex next to downtown Miami’s under-construction Signature Bridge. Rafael Viñoly is designing the new towers...
08 December 2021
Renderings for Two Proposals Have Been Revealed for 1431 Franklin Street in Oakland
New renderings have been published ahead of a public meeting for 1431 Franklin Street, a high-rise project in Downtown Oakland. The San Francisco-based Tidewater Capital...
07 December 2021
Miami’s First Supertall Skyscraper is Confirmed For 300 Biscayne Boulevard
Demolition permits have been issued for 300 Biscayne Boulevard, the development site of the upcoming 317-meter tall (1,041-foot) Waldorf Astoria Hotel & Residences—Miami’s first skyscraper...
06 December 2021
A New Tall Building Has Just Been Announced in Miami on Brickell Avenue
Earlier this week, the Major Food Group (MFG) team behind restaurants like Carbone and the Grill announced a partnership with JDS Development Group to conceive,...
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03 December 2021
Residential Skyscraper in Miami Structurally Tops Out
The Aston Martin Residences in Miami has structurally topped out. This milestone was celebrated as part of Design Miami 2021. This sail shaped building is...
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01 December 2021
Second Proposal Submitted for 845 South Olive Street in Los Angeles
Real estate firm, Relevant Group, has filed an application to the Los Angeles Department of City Planning for 845 South Olive Street. The firm is...
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30 November 2021
Insurance Giant Plans to Sell Their Northbrook Headquarters
Allstate is planning to sell their corporate headquarters campus located in Northbrook, a suburb of Chicago. Currently the Nevada-based warehouse developer, Dermody Properties, is offering...
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29 November 2021
A 19th-Century Flour Mill in Chicago Makes Way for New Apartments and Offices
Developer Sterling Bay is planning to redevelop the site of the former Archer Daniels Midland flour mill, at 1300 West Carroll Avenue in Chicago, with...
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26 November 2021
Austin Mixed-Use Project Hits Two New Milestones
Sixth and Guadalupe, a mixed-use high-rise under construction in Austin at 400 West 6th Street, has recently hit two milestones: the topping out of the...
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24 November 2021
Leasing Activity Gains Momentum in Chicago’s Fulton Market
The maker of John Deere tractors has recently leased more than 38,000 square feet at 800 West Fulton Market in Chicago as it expands its...
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18 November 2021
Revised Design for Arlington's Proposed Corporate Campus
Amazon originally revealed plans for the Second Phase of the PenPlace complex in February 2021. Now after receiving public feedback, the masterplan for the project...
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17 November 2021
Supertall Skyscraper Planned for Miami
Foundation permits have been filed for Waldorf Astoria Hotel & Residences in Miami. If approved, the project team is hoping that this building will be...
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16 November 2021
Supertall Skyscraper Structurally Tops Out in New York City
The Brooklyn Tower, formerly known as 9 Dekalb, has structurally topped out. It stands at 324.9 meters (1,066 feet) and has 74 stories. The project...
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15 November 2021
Construction Starts on Mountain Inspired Project in Denver
Construction has begun on One River North in Denver. This would be the third completed or under-construction project MAD Architects have in America and their...
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10 November 2021
New Addition to the University of Pennsylvania Campus Opens in Philadelphia
The Pavilion, an inpatient facility on the University of Pennsylvania medical campus is now open. Designed by the architects Foster + Partners, with the architect of...
08 November 2021
Proposed World Trade Center Residential Supertall Caught in Battle Over Affordable Housing
A proposed residential supertall at Site 5 of the World Trade Center in New York City would include 300 below-market value units, as well as...
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05 November 2021
Interest Increases for Office Buildings with Small Floor Plates in Cities Post-COVID
Smaller floor plates in office buildings are becoming more popular for cities, like Chicago, post-COVID. For the last decade, buildings with larger floor plates have...
03 November 2021
After a Decade of Preparation, New York City Medical High-Rise Announced
Plans for a medical office high-rise on Manhattan’s Upper East Side have been announced. To be located at 403 East 79th Street, Extell Development Company...
02 November 2021
Los Angeles Koreatown High-Rise Project Clears City Council
The Los Angeles City Council has approved the general plan amendment and zone change required for a 40-story high-rise in Koreatown to move forward. The...
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27 October 2021
New Proposal Plans a 507-Meter High-Rise for New York City
A 507- meter (1,663-foot) building has been proposed for New York City. Affirmation Tower’s design is composed of a series of stepped cantilevers. If its...
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26 October 2021
Oil Company Vacates Two Suburban Houston Office Buildings
In 2013, Exxon signed a lease for two buildings in the Hughes Landing complex located in The Woodlands, Texas. Now, the company is looking to...
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25 October 2021
Groundbreaking Ceremony for Chicago Project
After five years of planning, the Lincoln Yards’ groundbreaking ceremony was held to signal the start of construction for the first building on the site,...
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22 October 2021
High-Rise Office Project Proposed for Fulton Market in Chicago
Paperwork has been filed with the City of Chicago for a new project in Fulton Market, Chicago. 360 North Green is currently a parking lot,...
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21 October 2021
New Renderings Revealed for St. Petersburg Residential Project
New renderings have been released of the upcoming project, The Nolen. The project will be located in downtown St. Petersburg, Florida. This residential building is...
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20 October 2021
Claremont Hall Structurally Tops Out in New York City
A high-rise adjacent to the Columbia University campus in New York city just structurally topped out. Claremont Hall’s concrete superstructure is now finished, and the...
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19 October 2021
Groundbreaking Ceremony for New Fort Worth Project
The Deco 969 project just had its groundbreaking ceremony. It will be a high-rise residential building in downtown Fort Worth. This project will be part...
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18 October 2021
Biomorphic Project Proposed for Los Angeles
A new project is planned for Hollywood Sunset Boulevard called The Star. The US$500 million building will be designed by MAD Architects and developed by...
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15 October 2021
New Construction Codes in New York City Allow Taller Mass Timber Construction
A major update to the New York City Construction Codes just approved the use of mass timber, including cross-laminated timber, as a structural material for...
14 October 2021
Energy Company Headquarters in Charlotte Progressing on Schedule
In Charlotte, Charlotte Metro Tower is structurally topped out and the building’s unitized curtain wall is well underway. The 40-story office building reaching to 191...
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11 October 2021
High-Rise Addition to Nashville's YMCA
The YMCA of Middle Tennessee in Nashville will soon get a high-rise addition on its site. Located at 1000 Church Street, the building will be...
08 October 2021
Nashville Hotel and Residential Complex Design Revealed
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill have released renderings of their upcoming project in Nashville, a Ritz-Carlton Hotel and Residences complex. The project will consist of two...
07 October 2021
New York City Project Showcases Art Deco-Inspired Façade
A residential building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, 200 Amsterdam Avenue, just completed its façade. Designed by Elkus Manfredi Architects, the façade uses...
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06 October 2021
New York City Art Deco Landmark Renovation Complete
Resolution Real Estate has completed a major renovation of the historic McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Building at 330 West 42nd Street in Manhattan. Designed by Raymond...
05 October 2021
Chicago Addition to “Millennium Mile” Tops Off
In Chicago, 300 NMA has reached its final height of 47 floors and 157.6 meters (517 feet). Located at 300 N. Michigan Avenue, the project...
04 October 2021
Office Buildings in Reston Complex Reach Substantial Completion
After 35 months of construction, Clark Construction Group has reached substantial completion on 1950 and 2000 Opportunity Way, the first two office buildings to be...
01 October 2021
Austin Condo Project Tops Out
In downtown Austin’s Rainey Street District, the condo tower at 44 East Avenue by developers Intracorp has officially celebrated its topping out. The 49-floor project...
30 September 2021
Philadelphia Residential Building Tops Off
The topping off of The Laurel Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia was celebrated by architect Solomon Cordwell Buenz (SCB) and developer Southern Land Company on 28...
29 September 2021
San Francisco’s Leaning Tower Risks Massive Plumbing Failures
In San Francisco, the beleaguered Millennium Tower, which has been tilting and sinking despite efforts to correct the situation, just added plumbing challenges to the...
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28 September 2021
Next Stop on Minneapolis Skyway Tops Out
In Minneapolis, the RBC Gateway building has topped out at 37 floors and 158 meters. Project completion is anticipated in the second quarter of 2022....
27 September 2021
Developers Sued Over Manhattan Residential Building's Defects
The residents at 432 Park Avenue in New York City have sued the developers, CIM Group and Macklowe Properties, over a list of 1,500 alleged...
24 September 2021
Residential Building in Austin’s Museum District Breaks Ground
The Linden, a 28-story residential tower in Austin's Museum District just north of the state capitol, broke ground 15 September. Located at 313 W. 17th...
23 September 2021
Minneapolis Office Building Gets Big Makeover
Built in 1985, the Minneapolis building formerly known as Campbell Mithun Tower recently wrapped up a US$20 million renovation. After a year of construction, Two22...
22 September 2021
Chicago Residential Project Along the Chicago River Underway
Lendlease recently celebrated breaking ground on The Reed, a 41-story, 440-residence community at 234 W. Polk St. in Chicago’s Printers Row neighborhood. The Reed is...
21 September 2021
Seattle Mixed-Use Tower Has Welcomed Residents
The Residences at Rainier Square have started welcoming their first occupants as of this summer. Located in downtown Seattle, the mixed-use project from Wright Runstad...
17 September 2021
Dramatically Cantilevered Residential Building In New York City Well Underway
On Manhattan’s Upper West Side a visually striking residential building is architecturally topped out at 19 stories and installation work of the windows nearly complete...
16 September 2021
Chicago Condo Building Converting to Apartments in Record-Breaking Sale
A 51-story condominium building in Chicago is being sold and turned into apartments. Strategic Properties of North America plans to convert Ontario Place, a 467-unit...
15 September 2021
Winners Named in Design Competition Re-envisioning Chicago's Thompson Center
Three winners have been named in the 2021 Chicago Prize Competition, which sought new visions for the James R. Thompson Center, an iconic 17-story civic...
14 September 2021
Twisting Condo Next to Brooklyn Bridge Tops Out
A twisting 26-story tower has topped out alongside Brooklyn Bridge. Located at 30 Front Street, the façade at Olympia Dumbo has reached about midway up...
13 September 2021
Masterplan Revealed for New District in Raleigh
Kane Realty Corporation has revealed the design of its masterplan for Raleigh’s Downtown South. Designed in collaboration with 10 Design, the mixed-use 13-hectare (32-acre) development...
10 September 2021
Dual-Branded Hotels in Los Angeles Top Out
National real estate investor and developer Lightstone announced the topping out of construction on the dual-branded Moxy Los Angeles Downtown and AC Hotel Los Angeles...
09 September 2021
Third Phase of Multi-Tower Development in Jersey City Begins Work
Pile driving work has begun on the third phase of the Provost Square complex in Jersey City’s Powerhouse Arts District. Toll Brothers has officially begun...
08 September 2021
Chicago Mixed-Use Complex Working Towards Approval
In Chicago, the developer for a proposed US$20 billion mixed-use complex on the South Side says he is ready to finalize deals with the city...
07 September 2021
Texas Medical Center Launches Life Science Campus Expansion
Texas Medical Center (TMC) in Houston, Texas, has launched a 15-hectare (37-acre) life science campus, TMC3. Construction has begun on Phase One, which is backed...
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06 September 2021
Atlanta Residential Building in Mixed-Use Development Tops Out
In Atlanta, the Mira apartment complex has topped out in the Midtown Union mixed-use development. Developed by MetLife Investment Management and StreetLights Residential, the 26-story...
02 September 2021
New York City Building Repositions with New Ground Level Experience
The redesigned ground level experience at 60 Wall Street in New York City aims to attract a variety of top-tier tenants. The building had long...
01 September 2021
Work to Solve San Francisco Residential Building’s Sinking Makes It Sink Faster
Foundation retrofit work was halted at Millennium Tower in San Francisco after it was found the project to prevent further sinking was in fact causing...
31 August 2021
Portland Residential Project Proposed at 18 Stories
In downtown Portland, Maine, an 18-story apartment building delivering more than 260 apartments has been proposed. Redfern Properties’ project at 200 Federal Street would require...
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26 August 2021
Housing Development Proposed Near Tech Giant's San Jose Village
A new housing tower could sprout in downtown San Jose, a project that would add several hundred residential units near Google’s transit-oriented neighborhood. Apollo, the...
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25 August 2021
Renderings Revealed for 40-Story Tower Redevelopment in New York City
An Environmental Assessment Statement reveals plans for a 40-story tower designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill at 415 Madison Avenue in Midtown East, Manhattan. The...
24 August 2021
New Permits Filed for 26-Story Tower in New York City
Permits have been filed for a 26-story mixed-use building at 69 Adams Street in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Located between Front and York Streets, the lot is...
23 August 2021
Detailed Massing Renderings Revealed For Two Miami Residential Towers
A new batch of detailed-massing and aerial renderings have been revealed for two new towers at the MiamiCentral complex, a three-million-square-foot (278,709-square-meter) mixed-use railroad station...
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20 August 2021
Residential High-Rise Breaks Ground in Booming Austin District
In Austin’s Rainey district, a 41-story condo building has broken ground, starting construction after demolishing existing structures on its .2-hecatre (.4-acre) site. Developed by Pearlstone...
19 August 2021
Towering New Hospital Opens in Loma Linda
A 16-story hospital has opened in Loma Linda. At 81.7 meters (268 feet) in height, the US$1.5 billion Dennis and Carol Troesh Medical Campus houses...
18 August 2021
Old Chicago Main Post Office Gets a Major New Tenant
The 601W Companies has landed a major new tenant for its property at 433 W. Van Buren St., the Old Chicago Main Post Office building....
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17 August 2021
Sailboat-Inspired Office Building Tops Out in Austin
Block 185, a 35-floor downtown Austin office tower, has topped out at 179.5 meters. Located at 601 West Second Street, the building with a silhouette...
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16 August 2021
Modeling Explores How the Surfside Condo Collapse Could Have Occurred
Investigation continues into the cause of the collapse of the Champlain Towers South building in Surfside, which collapsed on June 24, killing 98 people. The...
13 August 2021
Residential High-Rise Proposed in Austin
Austin-based firm Urbanspace Real Estate + Interiors has proposed a 55-story high-rise with 345 market-rate residences. The Modern Austin Residences would be located at 610...
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12 August 2021
Residential High-Rise in Nashville Evokes Rippling Flag
A curved residential high-rise is being considered for downtown Nashville. Proposed for the SoBro roundabout, 800 Lea would reach 45 stories at 186 meters (610...
11 August 2021
Residential Building Proposed As Part of Buffalo Hotel Repositioning Project
In a continued effort to bring residences to a hotel repositioning project in Buffalo, developer Stinson Hospitality Real Estate is proposing a 20-story residential building...
10 August 2021
Updated Atlanta Master Plan Details Revealed
An updated proposal for the 20-hectare (50-acre) master site plan for the Centennial Yards site in Atlanta provides increased walkability and access, and is designed...
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06 August 2021
Chicago Residential Building Drops Condos from its Mix
The pandemic is influencing behavior among potential condo owners in Chicago’s downtown. With the availability of a vaccine and the effects of the Delta variant,...
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05 August 2021
Brooklyn Mixed-Use Development Moves into Construction
New visuals have been released for The Alloy Block, a mixed-use development in construction at 80 Flatbush Avenue and 100 Flatbush Avenue on the border...
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04 August 2021
Residential High-Rise Proposed in Columbus
A 13-story apartment building is being proposed for downtown Columbus, as part of a redevelopment of the Ohio capital’s North High Street / Gay Street...
03 August 2021
Residential High-Rise in Miami Tops Out
The Missoni Baia condominium high-rise in Miami has topped out at 198 meters. The 57-story building from OKO Group and Cain International has most of...
02 August 2021
Multifamily High-Rise in Phoenix Breaks Ground
The Skye on 6th 26-floor multifamily project has broken ground in Phoenix. The project will deliver 309 units with approximately 604 square meters (6,500 square...
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30 July 2021
New High-Rises Planned in Austin
On a full city block near the Austin Convention Center downtown, Cielo Property Group proposes to build two office buildings, which could add up to...
29 July 2021
Multiple High-Rises Proposed in Boise
Three different high-rises have been proposed for the Boise metro, but the projects are facing some community pushback. Vida Properties plans to build a three-structure...
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28 July 2021
Brooklyn Complex Project Achieves Milestone
The 14-floor residential building on Calyer Place has architecturally topped out. Located at 37 West Street, it is part of a 92,903-square-meter (1 million-square-foot) waterfront...
27 July 2021
Massive Lakefront Redevelopment Wins Approval in Chicago
The US$3.8 billion redevelopment of the former Michael Reese Hospital site in Chicago was approved by the Chicago City Council. The only one of three...
26 July 2021
Proposed Salt Lake City Residential Project Clears Planning Hurdle
The Salt Lake City Planning Commission voted 6-1 to approve the design review application for a 390-foot mixed-use residential building at the site of the...
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23 July 2021
High-Rise Planned for Lafayette
Twin 20-story towers distinguish a high-rise planned for Lafayette. Seven16 Lafayette Tower would reach 79 meters (260 feet) and cover 22,297 square meters (240,000 square...
22 July 2021
Construction Starts on Student Housing High-Rise in Columbia
In Columbia, construction has begun on a 17-story student housing building located nearby the University of South Carolina. The Standard at Columbia will deliver 247...
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21 July 2021
Passive House Mixed-Use High-Rise Coming to New York City
The 26-story apartment building at 425 Grand Concourse in the Bronx, which is 75 percent complete, is targeting Passive House designation. The project topped out...
20 July 2021
Burst Water Line Floods Tampa High-Rise
The cause of a burst water line which flooded 27 floors of the 35-story Element residential high-rise in Tampa is still unknown four days after...
19 July 2021
Boston High-Rise Tops Out
One Congress in Boston completed vertical construction at 182.9 meters. Project completion for the 43-story building is anticipated by January 2023. The project broke ground...
13 July 2021
Chicago Mixed-Use Project Starts Site Prep
Work has begun at 410 S Wabash Avenue in Chicago where developer LMC has planned a 25-story mixed-use tower. Crews have begun removing the site’s...
12 July 2021
Church in New York City to Become Office Tower
After a year-long delay due to a construction lender pulling out of the project in March 2020, the redevelopment project at 125 West 57th Street...
08 July 2021
Insurance Company Sues City of Chicago After Skyscraper Floods
The insurer for the Willis Tower in Chicago is suing the City of Chicago in an attempt to recoup some of its costs in paying...
07 July 2021
Parisian Sensibility Brings Out the New York in Residential Building
Having opened late 2020, New York City’s first tower designed by a French female architect only has 8 residences left for sale of the original...
06 July 2021
Surfside Building Demolished to Aid Search Efforts
The death toll has risen to 28 with 117 people still missing at the site of the collapsed Champlain Towers South building in Surfside. The...
02 July 2021
Penthouse Details Revealed of Luxury Residences in Miami
The Aston Martin Residences in Miami are being designed to recall the form of a sail. Toward the interior, the residences open outward with floor-to-ceiling...
01 July 2021
Office Project in Houston Slated for 2024 Completion
Skanska is investing US$225 million in an office development project, 1550 on the Green in Houston, with construction beginning in June 2021 and scheduled to...
30 June 2021
Additional Details Revealed about Surfside Condo Prior to Collapse
Just weeks before Champlain Towers South collapsed, town officials in Surfside, Fla., were demanding immediate changes on the property—but all of their requirements focused on...
29 June 2021
New Rendering Reveals New York City Development's Height
OMA has released a new preliminary rendering of 41-47 West 57th Street. About 237,100 square feet (22,027 square meters) will be devoted toward residential usage...
28 June 2021
Mixed-Use Building in Brooklyn Opens
One Willoughby Square, a 34-story, 46,451-square-meter (500,000-square-foot) tower in Brooklyn has opened. The building includes office space, retail, and a public school for 300 students....
24 June 2021
Partial Collapse of Building in Surfside Kills at Least One
Part of a 13-story residential building collapsed early 24 June, 2021 in the South Florida community of Surfside, killing at least one person and sparking...
18 June 2021
Atlanta BeltLine Mixed-Use Development Underway
Redeveloping the site of a former Georgia Power operations center, a new mixed-use high-rise development currently under construction along Atlanta’s BeltLine covers 102,193 square meters...
17 June 2021
San Jose Project Builds on Area’s Agricultural Heritage
The Orchard residences on the Westbank campus in San Jose will span two distinct buildings including an accompanying workspace in an L-shaped plan. Sited at...
16 June 2021
Carbon-Neutral Mixed-Use High-Rise Wins Chicago Design Competition
An affordable mixed-use carbon-neutral high-rise designed by The Community Builders and Studio Gang has been selected as the winner of the City of Chicago’s C40...
15 June 2021
Timber Project Proposed in Madison Incorporates Historic Building
A 15-story residential timber building has been proposed in Madison. Baker’s Place will consist of three volumes that range in height from 9 to 14...
14 June 2021
A Competition to Give Chicago's Thompson Center New Life Opens
A competition open to the general public to re-envision the State of Illinois “Thompson” Center has been launched by the Chicago Architecture Center and the...
11 June 2021
Seattle Net-Zero Project Using Modular Construction
A 15-story apartment building in Seattle designed to be a net-zero energy development is being constructed with panels manufactured at a plant in Tacoma, Wash....
10 June 2021
Hotel and Residential High-Rise Now Open in Downtown Coeur d'Alene
A long-anticipated US$20 million high-rise is now open in downtown Coeur d'Alene. The 15-story One Lakeside opened in May 2021 at 201 N. First St.,...
09 June 2021
Proposed Slender Tower in Allentown Receives Planning Extension
It’s been 75 months since the Allentown Planning Commission blessed Bruce Loch’s plan to build the 33-story Landmark Tower on a small South Ninth Street...
08 June 2021
Plans for Chicago Mixed-Use High-Rise Moving Forward
The Chicago City Council has approved a 47-story mixed-use tower, located at 640 W Washington Boulevard in West Loop Gate. The development will replace an...
04 June 2021
Jersey City Skyscraper Has Launched
The second rental skyscraper at Journal Squared has opened. Located at 537 Summit Avenue in Jersey City, the 68-story building stands 230 meters (754 feet)...
02 June 2021
Lantern House Completes Construction in New York City
Construction is now complete on Lantern House, a pair of residential buildings straddling the High Line at 515 West 18th Street in Chelsea. The 10-...
01 June 2021
Final Hurdle Cleared for Megadevelopment in Chicago
The Chicago City Council has approved the 3.3-hectare (8.1-acre) North Union megadevelopment in the Near North Side. Planned by JDL Development, the project site is...
28 May 2021
High-Rise Apartment Building in Suburban Chicago Tops Out
The 17-story One Oak Brook Commons rental apartment development in the Village of Oak Brook has topped out. One Oak Brook Commons will be a...
27 May 2021
Conceptual Approval Granted for Milwaukee Residential High-Rise
A proposed 32-story apartment high-rise was granted conceptual approval by Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward Architectural Review Board, which did an initial review of the US$140...
25 May 2021
Excavation Underway for Proposed Brooklyn Skyscraper
Excavation work has begun at 625 Fulton Street, site of a proposed 942-foot-tall (287-meter-tall), 79-story mixed-use skyscraper in Downtown Brooklyn. The 167,225 square-meter (1.8-million-square-foot) project...
24 May 2021
Los Angeles Skyscraper Slide Won't Reopen
A renovation will do away with a slide that gave thrill-seekers a brief ride on the outside of a downtown Los Angeles skyscraper. The new...
21 May 2021
Downtown Los Angeles High-Rise Moving Closer to Construction
A new residential high-rise in downtown Los Angeles has been approved by Los Angeles City Planning nearly five years after being first proposed. Located at...
20 May 2021
New Life Coming to Louisville CBD With Repositioning
In downtown Louisville, Kentucky, the 30-story office tower at 5th and Jefferson streets is undergoing a significant repositioning under new ownership. The US$16 million plan...
19 May 2021
New Skyscraper Planned for Dallas Arts District
A 38-story 520,000-square-foot (48,310-square-meter) skyscraper is coming to Dallas, Texas. The Field Street Tower office building will be located at the southeast corner of Field...
18 May 2021
Chicago Skyscraper Getting a Big Makeover
Accenture Tower in Chicago will undergo a US$22 million renovation, including indoor and outdoor amenities and the addition of 90,000 square feet (8,361 square meters)...
17 May 2021
Miami Area Residential Complex Tops Out
The 52-story Boutique North Tower of The Estates at Acqualina, a US$1.8 billion residential development, has topped out in Miami’s Sunny Isles Beach. The building...
14 May 2021
High-Rise Lab Planned for Chicago’s Fulton Market
Chicago developer Mark Goodman wants to build a 19-story life sciences lab building along the western edge of the Fulton Market District, a project that...
13 May 2021
New York City Observatory Set to Open Fall 2021
Summit One Vanderbilt, a four-level 6,039 square meter (65,000 square foot) observatory including an outdoor summit terrace, will be located in the crown of One...
12 May 2021
Major Retailer Skyscraper Project Expands to Invest in Surrounding Neighborhood
The proposed scope of work for a 274-meter-tall (900-foot-tall) tower on top of Macy’s Herald Square flagship store in New York City has been expanded...
11 May 2021
Art Gensler, Founder of Eponymous Architecture Firm, Dies Age 85
Art Gensler, the American architect, interior designer, and founder of global architecture firm Gensler, has passed away at the age of 85 after being diagnosed...
10 May 2021
Helmut Jahn, One of American Architecture's Most Celebrated Figures, Dies Age 81
Helmut Jahn, the architect behind some of America's best-known buildings, has died in a bicycle accident aged 81. The German-American designer, whose high-profile projects include...
07 May 2021
New Manhattan Supertall’s Exterior Prioritizes Floor-to-Ceiling Views
The majority of 343 Madison Avenue, a proposed 320-meter-tall (1,050-foot-tall) office supertall in Midtown East, will be clad in floor-to-ceiling glass with strips of indented...
07 May 2021
With Funds Secured, Construction Begins on Milwaukee Lakefront Development
A 44-story tower on the shore of Lake Michigan in Milwaukee is ready to begin construction now that funding has been secured. Barrett Lo Visionary...
06 May 2021
Seattle High-Rise to Prioritize Occupant Connectivity
The Net, a new office building being built in Seattle, is focused on human well-being, including some aspects in response to the pandemic. The facility...
05 May 2021
Residential Tower to Replace Parking Lot in New York City Historic District
New York City landmarks commissioners approved a plan to replace a 50-year-old parking lot between Water and Pearl streets in downtown Manhattan with a brick...
04 May 2021
Newest Bank Tower in Charlotte Completes Construction
Construction on the newest bank tower in Charlotte is complete, according to a statement by the developer on Monday, 3 May, 2021 the latest in...
03 May 2021
A Mega-Project Could Reshape the Arts District in Los Angeles
Blows to businesses during the pandemic have deadened the streets of downtown Los Angeles and threaten long-term changes to office life, but builders are pressing...
30 April 2021
Major Bank to Move Workers Out of Downtown Columbus Tower
The owners of downtown's Chase Tower remain confident in the building's future despite losing their namesake tenant in late April, 2021. "It's not a real...
29 April 2021
Stepped And Cantilevering Towers Top Out in Brooklyn
Construction has topped out on 227 West Street, a pair of 34- and 42-story residential towers in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Designed by OMA with Beyer Blinder...
27 April 2021
Demolition Process for Jacksonville Building Commenced
The demolition process for a never-completed Jacksonville hotel is finally underway after the building sat vacant for over 13 years. Mayor Lenny Curry tweeted that...
23 April 2021
Skydeck at Chicago's Tallest Building Reopens Featuring a New Interactive Museum
EQ Office announced the exciting reopening of Skydeck Chicago at Willis Tower to the public on 23 April, 2021 after completing an extensive redevelopment. The...
22 April 2021
Chicago Opens the Door to More Branded High-Rise Signage
Chicago’s skyline could be in for changes after the city passed rules that could allow more signs on some office towers. The rules, which would...
19 April 2021
Developer Unveils Plan for Almost 2,700 Apartments on Chicago's Goose Island
A Canadian developer has unveiled plans to bring up to 2,650 apartments to a part of the city that now has no residents. Onni Group...
16 April 2021
New Renderings Revealed for Mixed-Use New York City Tower
A new batch of renderings were released about Project Commodore, Skidmore Owings & Merrill‘s upcoming mixed-use supertall at 175 Park Avenue in Midtown East. The...
13 April 2021
Chicago Office Tower Tops Out
Construction has topped out for the 50-story, 727-foot-tall (221-meter-tall) office tower at 320 S Canal Street in the West Loop. Also known as BMO Tower,...
09 April 2021
Developer Announces New Residences in Sunny Isles Beach
The Sunny Isles Beach area will be gaining another luxury-branded tower sometime in the near future. Dezer Development, the triumphant developer behind Porsche Design Tower...
08 April 2021
Lawsuits Dismissed Against Proposed Manhattan Skyscrapers
The New York State Court of Appeals shut down a lawsuit opposing the development of four new skyscrapers in Lower Manhattan’s Two Bridges neighborhood. This...
07 April 2021
Concrete Starts Rising in Phase 1 of San Francisco Residential Master Plan
While sales for housing on Yerba Buena Island are underway, the first sign of concrete is finally visible on Treasure Island. The first of many...
06 April 2021
New Miami Supertall Hotel & Residences Announced
Developers Property Markets Group (PMG) and Greybrook Realty Partners have officially announced their next grand development, and it will come in the form of a...
05 April 2021
Construction Completes On Manhattan Residential Building
Construction is complete on The Artisan, a 26-story residential building at 180 Broome Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Designed by Handel Architects and developed...
05 April 2021
Ginza, Tokyo to Get High Line-Style Park
One of the more well-known expressways in downtown Tokyo is about to be converted into an elevated pedestrian promenade and greenway, similar to the High...
02 April 2021
Missoula University Building Proposed Using Cross-Laminated Timber
As the W.A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservation outgrows its nearly 100-year-old building at University of Montana, the Missoula flagship is requesting money from...
01 April 2021
Newark City Officials Approve Three-Tower Development
The Newark Central Planning Board recently approved proposals to construct The Halo, a massive three-tower residential development. Located at 289-301 Washington Street, the 44-, 48-,...
31 March 2021
New High-Rise Coming to Chicago in Fast-Growing Neighborhood
The Fulton Market District apartment boom is pushing north of Lake Street, the next frontier for housing developers in the neighborhood after a recent city...
29 March 2021
Graduate Hotel Completes Construction On Roosevelt Island, New York City
Work is fully complete on Snøhetta‘s 18-story, 224-room Graduate Hotel at 22 North Loop Road and the adjacent four-story Verizon Tech Executive Education Center on...
26 March 2021
Miami Office Tower Approaches Halfway Mark
As financial firms, technology companies and high-net worth individuals migrate to Miami en masse, construction is progressing at a Class A office tower underway in...
25 March 2021
New Photos of Residential Complex in Manhattan Revealed
A new set of architectural photographs have been revealed of the recently completed Waterline Square Park, photographed by Elizabeth Felicella. The 2.6-acre (1-hectare) green space...
24 March 2021
Downtown San Jose Tower Project Pushes Ahead
A new downtown San Jose residential tower poised to be a gateway to the city’s urban core is taking a step forward now that its...
23 March 2021
The Demolition of a Historic Manhattan Lobby is Nearly Complete
Over the past few months, preservationists have fought hard to landmark the suave, Streamline Moderne lobby of the McGraw-Hill Building, a 1931 Art Deco high-rise...
22 March 2021
New San Francisco Tower Approved
San Francisco supervisors approved on 16 March, 2021 an 806 foot (245 meter) tower that could be the city's fourth-tallest building, the culmination of a...
19 March 2021
San Francisco Office Tower Tops Out
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) recently celebrated the topping out of 415 Natoma Street with developer Brookfield Properties. The new, 640,000-square-foot (59,457-square-meter) Class A office...
18 March 2021
Philadelphia Calls for "Lights Out" to Reduce Bird Collisions
The lights of Philadelphia may not shine as bright in the coming weeks as a coalition in the City of Brotherly Love tries to prevent...
17 March 2021
Planned Developments Coming to Nashville by 2023
The SEC Women’s Basketball Tournament will be at Bridgestone Arena in March 2022. Then the SEC men's tournament will return from 2023 to 2035. That’s...
11 March 2021
Megaproject in Chicago Gets Key Support from Metra
Developers of the proposed US$20 billion One Central complex on railroad air rights west of Soldier Field have received a show of support from a...
10 March 2021
Indianapolis Hotel Sets New Record for "Tallest Bracket"
The president and CEO at Sport Graphics had overseen a giant NCAA tournament bracket on the JW Marriott in downtown Indianapolis in 2015, but the...
09 March 2021
Hospital in Philadelphia Unveils New High-Rise Proposals
The week of 4 March, 2021, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) has unveiled two new high-rise proposals, one at (tentatively) 3401 Civic Center Boulevard...
05 March 2021
New Renderings Revealed for Midtown Manhattan Redevelopment
A new set of renderings has been released for Vornado Realty Trust‘s 7.4-million-square-foot (687,482-square-meter) Penn District redevelopment in Midtown. Created by DBOX, the images highlight...
03 March 2021
New York City Skyscraper Receives Permits
On 2 March, 2021 New York State’s Appellate Division, First Department, unanimously ruled in favor of 200 Amsterdam Avenue‘s developers, SJP Properties and Mitsui Fudosan...
02 March 2021
New Mixed-Use Office and Performing Arts Center Headed for Boston
Henning Larsen's design for Boston Seaport Block L5 (One Boston Wharf Road), developed in collaboration with WS Development, will translate the character of Boston’s Fort...
01 March 2021
Construction Completes on Upper East Side Manhattan Tower
Construction is now complete on Beckford House and Beckford Tower, a pair of completed residential buildings in the Yorkville section of Manhattan’s Upper East Side....
26 February 2021
Developer Plans More Than 1,000 Apartments in Chicago's West Loop
A Canadian developer plans two high-rises with more than 1,000 apartments next to Presidential Towers in the West Loop, a big vote of confidence in...
25 February 2021
Developer Behind Chemical Building Renovation Sued by Architect
An architecture firm involved in a US$54 million revamp of downtown St. Louis' Chemical Building is suing developer Restoration St. Louis alleging it is owed...
24 February 2021
Hospital Site Redevelopment Wins Key Approval in Chicago
The developers planning to turn the former Michael Reese Hospital site in Bronzeville into a 49-acre (19.8-hectare) mixed-use campus over the next two decades took...
23 February 2021
Atlantic City Branded Hotel Imploded
It was not the biggest or the best implosion ever. An auction for the right to detonate the dynamite to begin the implosion of Trump...
22 February 2021
Mixed-Use Tower Tops Out In New Rochelle
One Clinton Park, a new 28-story mixed-use tower, has officially topped out in New Rochelle. Located at 55 Clinton Place, the building will contain 352...
19 February 2021
Sixth Building in New York City Megadevelopment Tops Out
50 Hudson Yards, the practice’s latest building in New York has officially topped out. The LEED Gold-designed, 58-story office development forms an integral part of...
18 February 2021
Port Authority Taps Developers for Another World Trade Center Building in New York City
One of the final undeveloped World Trade Center parcels will give rise to a residential skyscraper with more than 1,300 apartments.The Port Authority of New...
17 February 2021
New Permits Filed in Center City, Philadelphia
Permits have been issued for the consolidation of the five properties that make up the site of the 567-foot-tall (172-meter-tall) 49-story skyscraper proposed at 113-121...
12 February 2021
World-Renowned Structural Engineer, and Former CTBUH Chairman, Les Robertson Dies
Leslie E. Robertson, preeminent structural engineer and former CTBUH Chairman, died on Feb. 11, 2021—one day before his 93rd birthday. The cause was cancer.Robertson was...
11 February 2021
Renderings Released For Downtown San Jose Mixed-Use Project
New renderings have been released for Westbank’s mixed-use building, Park Habitat at 180 Park Avenue, Downtown San Jose. The illustrations came with the Westbank Campus...
10 February 2021
Crowdfunding Collapse Sets Back Fulton Market Project in Chicago
The implosion of a New York real estate investment firm has undermined plans for two major developments in Chicago, including a hotel in the Fulton...
09 February 2021
Designs Revealed for Tech Giant Headquarters in Arlington
Two years after tech giant Amazon ended its search for a second headquarters site and settled on Arlington, Virginia (after plans for a Queens offshoot...
08 February 2021
An Aspen Tree-Inspired Mixed-Use Complex is Coming to Denver
Studio Gang has revealed its latest project, a 14-story, mixed-use tower slated to rise on a triangular lot in downtown Denver. Once complete, Populus, the...
05 February 2021
Architecture Firm Aims to Revive Michigan Central Station in Detroit
(WXYZ) — Ford Motor Company has hired an architectural contractor aimed to restore Michigan Central Station.EverGreen Architectural Arts aims to revive the "grandest areas of...
04 February 2021
Midtown East Supertall Renderings Revealed in New York City
Skidmore Owings & Merrill has revealed a new set of renderings for Project Commodore, a 1,646-foot (501-meter) supertall office skyscraper that would become the tallest...
03 February 2021
Airline Reduces Chicago Tower Footprint After Sweeping COVID-19-Related Cuts
United Airlines is shrinking its Willis Tower headquarters, where it has about 30 percent fewer workers than before the COVID-19 pandemic. The airline today confirmed...
02 February 2021
Updated Plans Revealed For 42-Story Tower in Jersey City
HAP Investments has unveiled updates for a new high-rise residential building in Jersey City. Located at 500 Summit Avenue, the building will eventually tower 42...
01 February 2021
Businesses Exit Chicago's Thompson Center as State Buys West Loop Offices
The state of Illinois has bought a West Loop office building, a move that ought to erase any doubt it soon will fully vacate the...
29 January 2021
Supertall Office Tower Tops Out in New York City
The rapid pace of construction at 66 Hudson Boulevard, aka The Spiral, finally reached the 65-story, 1,041-foot-tall (317-meter) pinnacle over Hudson Yards on Tuesday, 26...
28 January 2021
Transit-Oriented Apartment Block With Skybridge Rises in Downtown Bethesda
Residents in February, 2021 will begin moving into the Elm, a 456-unit high-rise apartment block in downtown Bethesda, Md. “The Elm is part of Montgomery...
27 January 2021
Curated 79th Floor Luxury Residence Hits the Market at New York City High-Rise
“Among the clouds, at one thousand feet, exists an inner floating garden,” reads the first line of the Engel & Völkers Mercedes Berk team’s off-market...
26 January 2021
Developers Look to Add Units to Stalled Chicago Tower
After losing their financing last year, the New York City developers of a stalled 74-story residential high-rise next to Grant Park are trying to jump-start...
25 January 2021
Updated Renderings Revealed for Skyscraper in Multi-Tower New York City Plan
Updated renderings created by DBOX for Vornado Realty Trust showcase The Penn District, a 7.4-million-square-foot (687,482 square meters) development in Midtown, Manhattan. Located within the...
22 January 2021
Details on Multiple Salt Lake City High-Rises Revealed
“Small” Lake City keeps growing up. Check out the ever-rising skyline, where 2021 and 2022 will bring three new skyscrapers to the heart of Utah’s...
21 January 2021
Iconic Chicago Building Getting Massive Plaza Renovation
The owner of one of Chicago’s biggest office towers is investing US$6.5 million to demolish and redesign its half-acre (0.2-hectare) plaza in anticipation of greater...
19 January 2021
Elevations Revealed for Oakland Skyscraper
Plans for a 622-foot (189 meters) office tower at 415 20th Street are heading to the Oakland Design Review Committee on January 27th 2021. The...
15 January 2021
Jersey City Planning Board Approves 26-Story Mixed-Use Tower
A new 26-story tower in Journal Square could soon begin construction following approvals from the Jersey City Planning Board. The tower will occupy a large...
14 January 2021
Developer Scales Back Chicago Lakeshore High-Rise Plans
The developer of a big high-rise proposed just north of Millennium Park has scaled back its plans, slashing the number of hotel rooms in the...
12 January 2021
New Art Installation Revealed at Chicago's Tallest Tower
EQ Office revealed Atmospheric wave wall, a new cultural landmark and the first public art installation in Chicago by globally acclaimed artist Olafur Eliasson. Prominently...
11 January 2021
Jersey City Twin tower Project Gets Final Approval
A massive Journal Square development project cleared its final hurdle Tuesday, 5 January, 2020 and construction is expected to begin in June 2021. The Kushner...
08 January 2021
New Hotel, Apartment Tower Breaks Ground in St. Petersburg, Florida
Ground has broken on a 34-story, US$117 million hotel and apartment tower on a long-vacant patch of downtown St. Petersburg. Early construction on Ascent St....
07 January 2021
Permits Filed for 70 Story Mixed-Use Tower in New York City
Permits have been filed for a 70-story mixed-use tower at 520 Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. Rabina Properties is listed as the owner behind the...
06 January 2021
Construction Wraps On Hotel in New York City's Midtown
Construction is now complete on the Pendry Manhattan West Hotel, a 281-foot-tall (85.6-meter-tall) mixed-use structure at Four Manhattan West in Midtown West. Designed by Skidmore...
05 January 2021
Work Progresses on Wauwatosa Independent Living Residences
Work is progressing on a 15-story, 168-unit apartment tower at the Wauwatosa campus of St. Camillus Health System Inc. That tower, in the 10100 block...
22 December 2020
Tampa Hotel Opens in Anticipation of Super Bowl
Super Bowl LV visitors to Tampa on 7 February, 2021 won't have a shortage of venues to book while they're in town. Contractors are vigorously...
21 December 2020
Renderings Unveiled For The Reed At Southbank
Renderings have been revealed for The Reed, the second residential tower at Southbank. Located on a 7.5-acre (3.03-hectare), waterfront site, Southbank is a megadevelopment that...
18 December 2020
Costs of Turning Former San Antonio HQ Into City Offices Now Tops $140 Million
The city’s estimated price tag for buying and transforming Frost Bank’s old headquarters in downtown San Antonio into offices for employees has swelled to just...
17 December 2020
Charity Auction Planned for Right to Detonate Implosion at Abandoned Trump Plaza Hotel, Atlantic City
One of President Donald Trump’s former Atlantic City casinos will be blown up next month, and for the right amount of money, you could be...
16 December 2020
Fort Worth Council Approves Purchase of Downtown Tower for City Hall
Cheering the decision as a financial win and a sign of a new era for Fort Worth, the City Council on Tuesday, 15 December, 2020...
15 December 2020
Credit Company to Shift Headquarters to Oakland from San Francisco
Credit Karma has decided to shift its headquarters from San Francisco to the same downtown Oakland office tower where it had already leased a big...
14 December 2020
Waterfront District Development Approved in New York City
The week of 7 December 2020, the New York City Council approved a Flushing waterfront development set to cost US$2 billion. The massive mixed-use project,...
10 December 2020
Residential Tower Tops Out at 122.9 Meters in Chicago
Construction on Cascade has topped out 396 feet (120 meters) over Lakeshore East. Officially addressed at 455 E Waterside Drive, Cascade is part of the...
09 December 2020
Minneapolis Tower Tops Out
270 Hennepin Avenue has topped out in Minneapolis, United States. Footage of the 22-story building reaching its final architectural height was released on 9 December,...
08 December 2020
Apartment Towers Pitched for South Loop, Near West Side in Chicago
COVID-19 has slowed Chicago’s economy, but two bullish developers have drawn up ambitious plans that would bring a combined 1,200 apartments to two city neighborhoods....
03 December 2020
Downtown Dallas Hotel to Start Construction Soon
Developers are breaking ground next week, 7 December 2020, on a new downtown Dallas luxury hotel. Plano-based Sam Moon Group is building the 283-room JW...
02 December 2020
New Details Revealed About Twin Tower Complex in West Palm Beach
One West Palm, the partly-built complex that stopped construction earlier this year, is starting up construction again, according to the project's developer. "We're back to...
30 November 2020
Plans for 12-Hectare "Mobility District" Revealed in Detroit
The Ford Motor Company has formally unveiled design plans for Michigan Central, a neighborhood-anchoring 30-acre (12.1-hectare) redevelopment in Detroit that will give way to an...
25 November 2020
Chicago’s Third Tallest Building Gets A New Name
The soaring Vista Tower, the newest addition to Chicago’s famed skyline, now has a new name: St. Regis Chicago. The skyscraper also has a new...
24 November 2020
Long-Delayed Milwaukee High-Rise Set to Begin Construction
The long-delayed Couture apartment high-rise has received its final financing approval, setting the stage for a construction start at its downtown Milwaukee site overlooking Lake...
23 November 2020
Multicolored Hotel Tops Out in New York City
Developer Youngwoo & Associates challenged MVRDV to design an innovative project that accommodates a large volume of program while fitting the surrounding context - a...
19 November 2020
Twelve-Story Car Vending Machine Opens in Atlanta
Atlanta’s newest high-rise building could be the tallest car vending machine in the country. Carvana, the online used car dealership, has opened its flagship vending...
18 November 2020
Twin 52-Story Towers Top Off in Miami
Melo Group, one of Miami’s preeminent developers of high-end residential towers, is one step closer to delivering Downtown 5th: the single largest multifamily development ever...
17 November 2020
Residential High-Rise Tops Out Over Downtown Brooklyn, New York City
Construction has topped out at 22 Chapel Street, a 20-story residential building in Downtown Brooklyn. Designed by CetraRuddy and developed by Delshah Capital and OTL...
13 November 2020
A 25-Story Proposed Apartment Tower Could be Wauwatosa's Tallest
A 25-story apartment tower with over 350 units would be way too large for Wauwatosa's west side, according to neighborhood residents and city officials opposing...
12 November 2020
First Phase Nearly Complete of New Neighborhood in Tampa
Construction on Water Street Tampa, a new downtown neighborhood, started in 2016 and project leaders say the first phase is almost finished. There are about...
11 November 2020
More than 750 Homes Move Forward at West Oakland BART Station
The Oakland Planning Commission unanimously approved a huge housing project at the West Oakland BART Station in early November 2020, part of the transit agency’s...
10 November 2020
Major Luxury Hotel Brand Sold in Chicago
After buying a pair of historic Chicago properties and the city's Major League Soccer franchise, Joe Mansueto is making another high-profile purchase: The Waldorf Astoria...
09 November 2020
Dramatic Revamp Eyed for Downtown San Jose Historic Tower
A dramatic revamp of the historic Bank of Italy office tower in downtown San Jose is in the works and would feature a top-to-bottom renovation...
06 November 2020
Supertall Building Proposed for Austin Site
After 20 years of unrealized development plans for the approximately 3.3-acre (1.3-hectare) property at the southwest corner of Cesar Chavez and Red River Streets near...
05 November 2020
Honolulu Complex Developer Plans for Two More Towers
Two towers with 1,243 homes will be in the next phase of Ward Village, according to the developer of the master planned community in Kakaako....
03 November 2020
Downtown San Jose Affordable Housing Complex Gets Financing from Tech Giant
A large residential complex that’s being developed in downtown San Jose near Google’s proposed transit village has landed some key financing from a unit of...
02 November 2020
Developers Announce Transformative Downtown Dallas Project
Hoque Global and its partners will begin construction on what could be the tallest structure on the southern end of downtown Dallas—adjacent to Dallas City...
30 October 2020
Electrical Fire at Half-Demolished New York City Skyscraper Forces Evacuation
An electrical fire in the basement prompted an evacuation Thursday morning, 29 October, 2020 at 270 Park Avenue, one of New York City's largest demolition...
29 October 2020
Pyramid-Shaped San Francisco Building Sells for US$650 Million
One of the most iconic skyscrapers in San Francisco, the Transamerica Pyramid Center, has officially sold, marking the largest commercial real estate transaction in the...
28 October 2020
Nearly 2,700 Homes Planned for Near North Side Site in Chicago
JDL Development plans nearly 2,700 homes on Near North Side property it would buy from the Moody Bible Institute, one of the biggest residential developments...
27 October 2020
Plans Announced for Two-Tower Development at 250 Water Street in New York City
New renderings and details of 250 Water Street were revealed on 23 October 2020, depicting a mixed-use development significantly smaller in size and scope than...
26 October 2020
Michigan Avenue Hotel Sold and Set for Rebranding
A California luxury hotel company has purchased the former Hard Rock Hotel on Michigan Avenue and will rebrand it after giving the historic building its...
23 October 2020
The Flagship Atari Hotel is Coming to Las Vegas
Ten months after gaming grandfather Atari partnered with hoteliers GSD Group to unveil a line of video game-themed hotels, the Las Vegas flagship has been...
22 October 2020
New Pinch District Skyscraper Planned for Memphis
If the city of Memphis will sign a letter of intent for city-owned property in the Pinch District, a group of local and national developers...
21 October 2020
Baltimore’s New Central Train Station Revealed
More than a century after Kenneth MacKenzie Murchison designed a Beaux-Arts train station for Baltimore, Amtrak is moving in a different direction. The railroad service...
20 October 2020
James Loewenberg, Developer of Chicago High-Rises, Dies at 86
James Loewenberg, a Chicago architect-turned-developer with a portfolio that includes the Aqua and Vista Tower skyscrapers in downtown Chicago, has died at age 86 after...
19 October 2020
Restoration of Art Deco New York City Skyscraper Nears Completion
New York City’s skyline is forever adapting, thrusting ever higher upwards as a jostling amalgam of evolving styles and forms. Although surpassed in height by...
16 October 2020
Luxury Yacht-Inspired Tower in Miami Makes Progress
Slated for completion in early 2023, Una Residences will be comprised of 135 spacious condominiums spanning 47 floors boasting unobstructed views of the Atlantic Ocean,...
15 October 2020
Jersey City Building Boom Continues with Three-Tower Project
Three towers rising at least 25 stories and the restoration of an old metal can company building could bring nearly 1,100 new residential units to...
14 October 2020
Pittsburgh Sports Team Say Financing Set To Redevelop Arena With Office Tower
The Penguins say they have the last piece of financing needed to redevelop the former site of the Civic Arena. Clay Cove is investing in...
13 October 2020
Iconic Chicago Tower Bets on the Future of Co-Working
Reports of the demise of co-working during the pandemic are greatly exaggerated, if you ask the owner of Willis Tower. In a bet on the...
12 October 2020
Modernist Downtown Los Angeles Landmark Undergoes US$20 Million Renovation
The first phase in the historic preservation-minded rehabbing of Union Bank Plaza (UBP) in Downtown Los Angeles has wrapped up. Completed in 1967, the 40-story...
09 October 2020
Springfield’s Tower Square Gains Office Tenant
Farm Credit Financial Partners Inc., a 250-employee technology services company, relocated in early October 2020 from Agawam to Springfield’s Tower Square. The move will accommodate...
08 October 2020
Chicago South Loop Apartment Tower Selling for US$190 Million
A San Francisco investment firm is paying US$190 million for a new 56-story luxury apartment tower along Grant Park, the biggest Chicago multifamily sale of...
07 October 2020
Latest Uptown Tower in Charlotte Tops Out
Work on another uptown bank high-rise uptown reached a construction milestone, amid a building boom uptown that has continued despite COVID-19. The 29-story FNB Tower...
07 October 2020
San Francisco Law College Breaks Ground on Mixed-Use Complex
UC Hastings College of the Law and Greystar Real Estate Partners, LLC (“Greystar”), a global leader in the investment, development, and management of high-quality rental...
06 October 2020
Three Workers Killed in Building Partial Collapse in Houston
A building under construction partially collapsed in west Houston, resulting in at least three people killed, fire officials said Monday, 5 October, 2020. According to...
02 October 2020
Italian Designer-Branded Miami Tower Reaches Halfway Point
The newest luxury high-rise in the Miami skyline is reaching new heights. Vertical construction of Missoni Baia, a 57-story waterfront glass tower now rising along...
30 September 2020
Iconic Hotel in Cincinnati Among America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places
A Modernist Cincinnati hotel designed by a pioneering woman architect is on this year’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places list, per the National Trust for...
29 September 2020
Chicago Apartment Market A Mixed Bag During Pandemic
Chicago landlord Horizon Realty Group has acquired a Lincoln Park apartment building for US$64 million, a price suggesting that multifamily values might not be falling...
25 September 2020
New Partnership Brings Renewable Energy to Chicago Landmark Tower
Dynegy today announced that it has entered into a multi-year partnership with Chicago's iconic Willis Tower to provide 100% renewable electricity to the Tower. "Sustainability...
24 September 2020
Specialty Care Pavilion to Rise in Philadelphia
Jefferson Health has announced plans for the Thomas Jefferson Specialty Care Pavilion, the latest in the organization’s portfolio of properties in the Market East district...
22 September 2020
Chicago Post Office Debuts Massive Rooftop Park
A new 3.5 acre (1.4 hectare) park stretching three city blocks is now open in the southwest corner of the Loop. But most people will...
21 September 2020
Slender TOD Residential Tower Proposed for San Jose
A slender residential tower of 27 stories is being planned in downtown San Jose at a key spot where a future BART stop is expected,...
18 September 2020
National Fire Protection Association Code Approves Taller Timber Buildings
The new National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 5000 Building Construction and Safety Code and NFPA 101 Life Safety Code have allowances for larger and taller...
17 September 2020
Landmark Dallas Building For Sale
An almost century-old high-rise that has become Dallas' signature building is up for sale. The 29-story Magnolia Building—topped by the iconic flying red horse sign—is...
16 September 2020
Chicago High-Rise Fire Injures Several
David Kuta thought about his next-door neighbor when he opened the front door of his 32nd-floor condo on the Near East Side and saw thick...
15 September 2020
Ribbon-Cutting Opens Skyscraper in New York City
Yesterday, 14 September 2020, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) and developers SL Green and Hines celebrated the opening of One Vanderbilt with a ribbon cutting...
14 September 2020
Redevelopment Plan Approved for Waterfront Philadelphia Site
The Durst Organization of New York has been selected to redevelop Penn’s Landing, ending efforts by the Philadelphia 76ers to build themselves a new basketball...
11 September 2020
Move In Begins at Buffalo's Tallest Building After Retrofit Completes
It is a big week at Seneca One as Buffalo's tallest building has opened its doors to residential tenants for the first time. The first...
10 September 2020
Crews Top Out First Tower at Nashville Development
A mixed-use community continues to rise on a full city block in Midtown. Broadwest is a 1.2 million-square-foot (111,500 square meter), urban, mixed-use community at...
09 September 2020
Raleigh Approves Rezoning for Downtown Tower
Developers hope a planned 40-story tower will become a significant project that expands the northern edge of downtown Raleigh. The Raleigh City Council unanimously approved...
08 September 2020
Residential Tower Proposed in Edina
The development firm Mortenson hopes to transform an aging U.S. Bank branch on the corner of France Avenue and 70th Street in Edina into an...
04 September 2020
Architect John C. “Jack” Portman III Dies at 71
Real estate developer and architect John C. “Jack” Portman III has died at the age of 71 of natural causes according to a tribute shared...
03 September 2020
New Skyscraper Planned for Downtown Austin
Despite uncertainty about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on demand for office space, a developer is moving ahead with plans for a 47-story office...
02 September 2020
Skydeck Reopens in New York City With New Health Measures
Edge, among the highest outdoor sky decks in the Western Hemisphere, announced that it reopened to the public on 2 September 2020 at Noon. The...
01 September 2020
Construction Starts On Milwaukee Mass Timber Tower
Construction has started on an unusual downtown Milwaukee apartment tower. The 25-story, 259-unit high-rise is being constructed with a type of mass timber construction called...
31 August 2020
Social Media Giant Pays to Cancel Lease for New San Francisco Offices, Citing Pandemic
Citing coronavirus-inspired workforce changes, Pinterest will pay US$89.5 million to cancel a lease on new San Francisco offices. “As we analyze how our workplace will...
28 August 2020
Downtown San Jose Mixed-Use Tower Pushes Ahead
A new downtown San Jose office tower is pushing forward with an early 2021 construction start, a high-rise that would sprout a short distance from...
27 August 2020
Skyscraper Badly Damaged by Hurricane in Lake Charles
A Video showed powerful winds battering a building in Lake Charles, Louisiana, early Thursday morning, 27 August 2020, as Hurricane Laura caused extensive damage to...
26 August 2020
Ohio University Moving Forward with New Hospital Tower
The university is seeking approval from the board of trustees this week for the construction of the 1.9 million-square-foot (176,515-square-meter) 820-bed inpatient hospital tower. The...
24 August 2020
Hines Founder Gerald D. Hines, Who Shaped Houston's Skyline, Dead at 95
Gerald D. Hines, who turned a one-man real estate office in Houston into the global developer Hines, died last night at his home, Hines announced....
21 August 2020
New York City Penn Station Master Plan Enters Next Phase Of Development
Earlier this year, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the Empire Station Complex, a major redevelopment initiative for the area surrounding Pennsylvania Station. The project team is...
19 August 2020
Houston Luxury High-Rise To Break Ground
The Paramount, a new high-rise coming to the River Oaks area, will break ground in late 2020 or early 2021, Randall Davis Co. announced in...
18 August 2020
Apartment Tower in Chicago to Convert Office Space to Classroom Space During COVID-19 Pandemic
A 57-story apartment tower in the Streeterville neighborhood plans to convert some of its office space to small classrooms, betting that frazzled families will seek...
17 August 2020
Technology Institute Expansion Nears The Halfway Mark In Hoboken
Construction is nearing the halfway mark on the much-anticipated Student Housing and University Center at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. Design Collective...
13 August 2020
Mies van der Rohe Dormitory Gets Renovated in Chicago
Mies van der Rohe’s workhorse tower gets a vibrant remake as a dorm at Chicago’s Illinois Institute of Technology. On the first floor of a...
12 August 2020
First Body Removed From New Orleans Hotel Collapse
Crews on Saturday, 8 August, 2020 recovered the remains of Quinnyon Wimberly, one of the two workers trapped since October 2019 in the collapsed Hard...
11 August 2020
Condominium Tower in Queens, New York City Reaches Completion
Construction is complete at Hero LIC, a 24-story condominium building at 24-16 Queens Plaza South in Long Island City, Queens. Designed by Woods Bagot Architects...
10 August 2020
Final Work Completed On 26-Story Luxury Multifamily Development in Minneapolis
A 283-unit luxury apartment community in the Northeast submarket of Minneapolis, Minnesota called Rafter has been completed, architectural design firm Cuningham Group has announced. Cuningham...
07 August 2020
Atlanta North Avenue Development Takes Step Forward
A massive commercial development at MARTA’s North Avenue station in Midtown, Atlanta took a step forward Thursday, 30 July, 2020. The MARTA Board’s planning committee...
06 August 2020
Megadevelopment with Biotech Component Prepares for 2021 Groundbreaking, While Life Sciences Lab Moves Forward in Chicago
Early 2021 groundbreaking planned for $6 billion Lincoln Yards megadevelopment on North Side Sterling Bay plans to break ground on the US$6 billion Lincoln Yards...
04 August 2020
Concave Curtain Wall Nears Parapet For Queens Residential Building in New York City
Curtain wall installation is nearing the parapet of Queens Plaza Park, aka Sven, a 755-foot-tall (230.1-meter-tall) mixed-use skyscraper at 29-27 41st Avenue in Long Island...
03 August 2020
Former Office Building in Tulsa to Get New Life with Conversion to Apartments
A tornado disfigured the statuesque Remington Tower in 2017, rendering the longtime office building a broken-windowed eyesore to thousands of motorists who pass it daily...
31 July 2020
Chicago Developer to Buy Out Supertall Building's Partner for US$270 million
The Chicago developer building the 101-story Vista Tower on the Chicago River has agreed to buy out its majority Chinese partner for US$270 million, ending...
30 July 2020
Plans For New York City's Madison Avenue Reveal New 55-Story Office Tower
Plans for 343 Madison Avenue in Midtown East unveil the substantial size and scope of the supertall to take the place of the former Metropolitan...
29 July 2020
Real Estate Company Chosen to Lease New Medical Center Tower in Houston
JLL has been hired to handle leasing for another prominent tower in the Texas Medical Center area. Houston-based Medistar Corp. and Texas A&M University will...
27 July 2020
High-Street Residential Breaks Ground on Houston Apartment Tower
High Street Residential, the residential subsidiary of Dallas-based Trammell Crow Co., has broken ground on a 43-story apartment tower in downtown Houston. The project is...
23 July 2020
Renovations Revealed for Houston Tower, Along With Major Deal
Hines, the international real estate firm, and an affiliate of Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. (Cerberus), a global leader in alternative investing, announced on 13 July...
22 July 2020
Luxury Residential High-Rise Tops Out in Brooklyn, New York City
Construction has topped out on Morris Adjmi Architects’ Front & York, a 1.1-million-square-foot (102,193-square-meter) residential project at 85 Jay Street in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Developed by...
21 July 2020
Hotel and Condo Tower in Planning Stages for Downtown Orlando
Summa Development Group has filed plans with the city to build a new mixed-use skyscraper that would bring the first five-star hotel to Orlando’s Central...
20 July 2020
A 47-Story High-Rise is Set to Break Ground in Chicago During the Pandemic
Two major Chicago developers are expected to break ground next month on a 47-story apartment and hotel tower on North Michigan Avenue, in what would...
17 July 2020
Big Downtown San Jose Housing Tower Moving Forward
A busy developer is determined to navigate past coronavirus potholes and will move ahead with plans for a striking residential tower that would sprout in...
15 July 2020
Restaurant Atop Chicago's Lake Point Tower to Close, be Sold
One of Chicago’s highest-altitude restaurants is for sale, offering the rare opportunity for another restaurant — or a resident — to take over the top...
13 July 2020
Office Tower Decision May Impact Traffic Patterns in West Palm Beach
The Town of Palm Beach will likely see more traffic congestion in the future as the construction of a 26-story office tower at the western...
10 July 2020
Lender Halts Funding for Skyscraper in Chicago's Downtown Due to Pandemic
A Helmut Jahn-designed skyscraper along South Michigan Avenue is on hold at least until September 2020 and buyers of the luxury units are being offered...
09 July 2020
Proposed Mixed-Use Complex Revealed In Queens, New York City
A consortium of developers including Kaufman Astoria Studios, Silverstein Properties, and BedRock Real Estate Partners has revealed extensive plans to redevelop and construct a five-block...
08 July 2020
Plant-Wrapped Towers And Botanical Gardens Anchor Beverly Hills Project
Alagem Capital Group, in partnership with London-based real estate investor Cain International, has revealed the Foster + Partners-designed master plan for a 17.5-acre (7.8-hectare) mixed-use...
07 July 2020
Residential Tower in Honolulu Experiencing Setbacks Due to Pandemic
Production of a mainly mid-priced Kakaako condominium tower has run into trouble because of COVID-19, but the developer believes several planned changes that include pricing...
06 July 2020
Developer Is Updating Historic Seagram Building With New Playground
The owner of the Seagram Building, the stately office tower designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe on Manhattan’s Park Avenue, thinks it is time...
02 July 2020
US House of Representatives Passes Bird-Safe Buildings Act
American Bird Conservancy (ABC) applauds the U.S. House of Representatives for passing H.R 2, which includes H.R. 919 – Bird-Safe Buildings Act, today. This bipartisan...
26 June 2020
Chicago Near North Siders Disapprove of 43-Story Apartment Tower Plan
One of Chicago’s busiest luxury residential developers wants to build a 43-story apartment high-rise using air rights from a Near North Side church, but nearby...
25 June 2020
Under-Construction Resort & Casino in Las Vegas Will Not Allow Children
Owners of The Circa Resort & Casino, which is currently under construction in downtown Las Vegas, announced via Facebook 22 June 2020 that it would...
24 June 2020
New Life Sciences Mixed-Use Master Plan Moves Forward in Houston
Hines, the international real estate firm, has finalized an exclusive agreement with 2ML Real Estate Interests to develop Levit Green, more than 52 acres (21...
23 June 2020
US$185 Million Observatory is Latest Chicago Project Delayed by Coronavirus
The Aon Center has paused plans to build an observatory with a thrill ride atop Chicago’s third-tallest skyscraper, and the US$185 million project will start...
19 June 2020
Amendments to a Plan Could Create 400-Foot (121-Meter) Towers in Honolulu
Ala Moana Center could become home to some of Honolulu’s tallest hotel and housing towers under a proposal endorsed by city planners. However, key Honolulu...
17 June 2020
Plan To Replace Abandoned Chicago Spire Site With Two Apartment Buildings Advances In Zoning Committee
After significantly scaling back their plans to finally fill in the massive hole left behind by the abandoned 2,000-foot (609-meter) Chicago Spire project, developers will...
16 June 2020
Construction Resumes as Covid Restrictions Ease on Tower in Downtown Buffalo
Buffalo's tallest building is undergoing its most dramatic top-to-bottom makeover in its nearly 50-year history. Douglas Development has begun repainting the exterior of the 38-floor...
15 June 2020
Developer Wins Key Ruling from Appeals Court in Miami-Dade
The Apeiron at the Jockey Club developer appears to have snuffed out a long-running fight with two property owners’ associations that sought to stop the...
12 June 2020
New Hotel Approved in North Beach, Miami
Urbanica Management has the green light to build a new hotel on one of the last vacant oceanfront parcels in Miami Beach. The Miami Beach...
11 June 2020
Tall Building Being Demolished As New York City Begins to Reopen
Anthony Vargas is taking no chances with the novel coronavirus. To prove it, the 41-year-old New York City construction worker opens the front door of...
10 June 2020
Lexington Landmark Dormitory Complex Demolished
UK’s Kirwan and Blanding towers—50-year-old fixtures of the Lexington skyline and former homes to thousands of students—now resemble the mangled ruins of a bygone era...
09 June 2020
High-Rise Park Carved into a Residential Tower Proposed for Seattle
Architecture firm ODA has designed a residential building in downtown Seattle that splits in half to create an elevated private park. The proposed design called...
05 June 2020
City of D.C. Names Street to White House After Black Lives Matter
The city of Washington, D.C., is echoing a call for justice by naming a road and painting an unmissable message on a street that leads...
04 June 2020
Bayshore’s First Condo Tower in 15 Years Completed in Tampa
The first condo tower built on Tampa’s Bayshore Boulevard in 15 years has completed the construction phase and is ready for its residents to begin...
03 June 2020
Footage of Former Energy Building Implosion in Richmond Released
In a matter of seconds, the former Dominion Energy building that stood for four decades at One James River Plaza in downtown Richmond was reduced...
02 June 2020
Renderings Offer Look At New Proposed Hotel In The New York City Financial District
Preliminary renderings from Stonehill & Taylor Architects offer a first look at a new hotel property in Manhattan’s Financial District. The development is located at...
01 June 2020
Harrison Development's Second Phase Could Include a Hotel and Nearly 900 Units
The second phase of a massive development project in Harrison could bring hundreds of residential units and even a hotel to a former industrial site...
28 May 2020
A New York City Art Deco Staple is Getting A New Observation Deck
It’s the Chrysler Building’s time to shine. The Art Deco skyscraper, built in 1928, is getting a brand-new observation deck. The Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)...
27 May 2020
Plans Approved For 102-Story Skyscraper That Could Be Chicago's Second-Tallest
A 102-story skyscraper known as Tribune East Tower could become Chicago’s second tallest building in the coming years, after aldermen on Wednesday, 20 May, 2020...
26 May 2020
Mixed-Use Building Proposed for Downtown Boise
The Boise skyline could see a dramatic change in coming years, if a new project from Ball Ventures Ahlquist and Idaho Central Credit Union comes...
22 May 2020
New McKinney Avenue Tower Will Rise in Dallas' Uptown
A new high-rise in the works for Uptown is the biggest Dallas development announced this year. The 27-story office and retail tower will sit on...
21 May 2020
New Deadlines Proposed for $200-Million Project in Downtown Des Moines
Construction of Des Moines’ newest skyscraper—a 39-story tower with luxury apartments and hotel—was scheduled to begin more than six months ago. Instead, Justin Mandelbaum, the...
19 May 2020
New Renderings and Permits for 30-Story New York City Tower
A two-towered development set to rise atop the ruins of Beth Hamedrash Hagadol on Norfolk Street moves one step closer to reality. Last month, Dattner...
18 May 2020
Three-Tower Complex Proposed for Iconic Spring Hill Chapel Site in Atlanta
A prominent site in Midtown, where a historic funeral home once operated, may eventually be the setting for a three-tower complex of apartments, offices, and...
14 May 2020
Residential Tower in New York City's Financial District's Glass Curtain Wall Resumes Its Rise
Façade work is progressing on Seaport Residences, a 670-foot-tall (204-meter) residential skyscraper at 161 Maiden Lane in the Financial District. Formally addressed as One Seaport,...
13 May 2020
Evanston Gives Green Light to New Office Tower
Stay-at-home orders in many states led builders to shut down construction sites, but Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker decided to let such projects go forward, and...
11 May 2020
Apartment Tower in the Works at the SMU/Mockingbird Light Rail Station in Dallas
Developer Trammell Crow Co. is giving more details about its plans for a high-rise development at DART’s SMU/Mockingbird light rail station. Called Mockingbird Station East,...
08 May 2020
Residential High-Rise Slated for Los Angeles' Westside for First Time in 40 Years
A Gensler-designed 34-story residential tower currently under construction on Los Angeles's Westside is poised to become the area's first residential high-rise in nearly 40 years. ...
07 May 2020
New Uptown Dallas Tower in the Works on Maple Avenue
A sleek new high-rise on the way in Dallas’ Uptown district will change the skyline north of downtown. Crescent Real Estate plans to build the...
06 May 2020
Proposal for 37-Story Tower in Santa Ana Now Includes Apartments
Apartments could be included in Orange County’s tallest skyscraper, a 37-story tower in Santa Ana, if the long-planned project ever gets off the ground. City...
04 May 2020
Renderings Revealed For New Development in New York City's South Bronx
Maddd Equities is responsible for one of the largest forthcoming developments in the South Bronx, a new 274,000-square-foot (25,455 square meters) building in the borough’s...
01 May 2020
Timber Composite Tower in Milwaukee To Begin Pre-Leasing
New Land Enterprises will begin pre-leasing apartments in Ascent, a proposed 25-story apartment tower made from mass timber, in the coming days. A brochure will...
30 April 2020
New Connected Office Towers Eyed in Downtown San Jose
Two new office towers are being eyed in downtown San Jose near the Children’s Discovery Museum, a project proposed by a veteran developer with a...
28 April 2020
New Uptown Dallas High-Rise Will Have Towering Green Wall
The latest high-rise residential buildings in Dallas compete for tenants with a growing array of luxury features. One project planned for the Uptown neighborhood is...
27 April 2020
Residential High-Rise Proposed for Oakland
Plans for a 29-story apartment tower to rise in downtown Oakland appears to be inching forward, with the project’s sponsor last week filing for an...
24 April 2020
Skyscraper with Condos and Hotel Proposed for Downtown Los Angeles
An Australian developer is pushing ahead with new plans for a US$500-million skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles that would house both condominiums and a hotel....
23 April 2020
Foundation Preparations Begin at 60-Story Office Tower Along Chicago River
Development of the 60-story Salesforce Tower has kicked off along the Chicago River after the project secured a US$500 million-plus construction loan that is one of the...
22 April 2020
Under-Construction Atlanta Hospital Tower to Open Early Due to COVID-19
Few and far between are development projects that have been expedited by the coronavirus’s impact, but one major Atlanta medical installation appears to be pushing...
21 April 2020
Excavation Underway for New Hotel in Midtown New York City
Excavation has begun at 150 West 48th Street in Midtown, the site of 974-room hotel designed by Gene Kaufman Architect. The 34-story project is being...
20 April 2020
Investor Acquires Residential High-Rise in Chicago
New Jersey-based Strategic Properties of North America (SPNA) has partnered with South Korean investor Mirae Asset Daewoo to acquire a luxury Chicago apartment building for...
17 April 2020
New Residential Condo Holds Groundbreaking in Atlanta
From private single-family builds on quiet streets to transit-focused apartment communities and Midtown high-rises, the exemption for construction in Atlanta and Georgia’s orders mandating that...
16 April 2020
New Renderings Revealed of Nashville Residential Tower
Global architecture firm Goettsch Partners (GP) has designed Alcove, a new residential tower in Nashville, Tennessee, developed by Giarratana LLC. Located at 900 Church Street, adjacent to the...
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15 April 2020
Office High-Rise Site Cleared and Ready In New York City’s Downtown Brooklyn
The site at 141 Willoughby Street in Downtown Brooklyn is planned to welcome a 23-story office building. Demolition has concluded and the land sits awaiting...
14 April 2020
New Skyscraper Underway in New York City’s Prospect Heights Neighborhood
The reinforced concrete superstructure of 18 Sixth Avenue, a 51-story residential skyscraper, has begun ascending in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Designed by Perkins Eastman and developed...
13 April 2020
Two High-Rise Projects Eyed for Office Plaza in Dallas
The owners of two key properties in North Dallas’ Preston Center business district are seeking zoning approvals to build a pair of high-rises. Rosebriar Holdings...
09 April 2020
New Affordable Housing Projects in Chicago Receive Federal Tax Credits
Eleven new developments bringing a combined 1,083 units of affordable housing to Chicago’s North, South, and West sides are moving forward after being selected by...
08 April 2020
Mixed-Use Development in Atlanta Begins Leasing
A major mixed-use development in the West Midtown neighborhood of Atlanta is moving forward with leasing efforts, inking a major deal with an international hospitality...
07 April 2020
San Francisco Orders Construction Sites to Shut Down Due to COVID-19
San Francisco joined the rest of the Bay Area on 31 March 2020 in lengthening its shelter-in-place order, which pushed the citywide shutdown until at...
06 April 2020
Third and Final Tower Tops Out at TOD in Dunwoody
The urbanization of Atlanta’s north Perimeter area soldiers on, as insurance giant State Farm’s massive mixed-use campus, comes together alongside MARTA tracks. Developer KDC relayed...
03 April 2020
Residential Tower Tops Off in New York City
The residential tower, One Boerum Place has topped out in Downtown Brooklyn. The slim reinforced concrete superstructure recently reached its 21-story parapet, and work is...
02 April 2020
Permits Filed for Mixed-Use Building in New York City
Permits have been filed for a 13-story mixed-use building at 2686 Broadway on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Located between West 102nd Street and West 103rd...
01 April 2020
Date Set for Implosion of Office Tower in Richmond
Dominion Energy has set a date to implode its vacant One James River Plaza office tower in downtown Richmond. The Richmond-based energy giant said it...
31 March 2020
Architecture Firm in Chicago Uses 3D Printer to Create Face Masks for Healthcare Workers
bKL Architecture, a firm headquartered at the Aqua tower in Chicago's Lakeshore East neighborhood, is doing its part to be of service during the COVID-19...
31 March 2020
CTBUH EIC Interviewed in Crain's Piece on How High-Rise Living Transformed Chicago's Skyline
How high-rise living has transformed Chicago's skyline The great Chicago apartment boom reshaped the city’s skyline with dozens of fancy new high-rises. But it didn’t...
30 March 2020
Timber Housing Development Being Planned for Skid Row in Los Angeles
Skid Row Housing Trust and Michael Maltzan Architecture are planning a 150-unit supportive housing development tower in Downtown Los Angeles, made almost entirely of wood....
27 March 2020
Under-Construction Skyscrapers in Chicago Secure Financing
Lendlease and Magellan Development have landed US$283 million in construction financing for their two residential towers rising in Chicago’s Lakeshore East. The projects will have...
26 March 2020
Under-Construction Chicago Skyscrapers Acquire New Tenants
Real estate investment firm Heitman has inked a lease for 60,000 square feet (5,600 square meters) at Riverside Investment & Development and Howard Hughes’ under-construction...
25 March 2020
Twin-Tower Condominium Project Approved in Honolulu
The Honolulu City Council approved a twin-tower condominium project at 805-919 Keeaumoku Street that is expected to have nearly 1,000 residential units.The council voted unanimously...
24 March 2020
Resort in Las Vegas On Hold, Other Construction Continues Amid Spread of COVID-19
With COVID-19 upending daily life in Las Vegas, at least one major real estate project has shelved construction work over the outbreak, and at least...
23 March 2020
Plans for Mixed-Use University Building in Harrisburg Scaled Down
When Harrisburg University of Science and Technology first envisioned building a new tower in downtown Harrisburg for the university’s new Health Science Education Center, their...
20 March 2020
Developers Hatch Plans for Towers On Former Proposed Headquarters Expansion Site in New York City
In the summer of 2019, four developers who own land on Long Island City's Anable Basin launched a public engagement initiative called Your LIC to...
19 March 2020
Downtown Fort Worth Landmark will Become Luxury Hotel
A landmark downtown Fort Worth skyscraper will be converted into a luxury hotel. San Francisco-based Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants said it will open a 232-room...
18 March 2020
Façade Inspection Program in New York City Undergoes Overhaul
In December 2019, a piece of terra cotta fell from a Manhattan tower, killing a passerby and prompting the New York City Department of Buildings...
13 March 2020
Redevelopment Plan for New York City’s South Street Seaport Includes Skyscraper
As part of an integrated plan to redevelop several sites in the South Street Seaport, the Howard Hughes Corporation aims to build an up to...
11 March 2020
Ground Broken on New Office Complex in Plano
The Trammell Crow Company has broken ground on its new Plano high-rise project in Legacy business park, which will feature 15-story and 25-story towers. The...
09 March 2020
New York City’s Highest Outdoor Skydeck Set to Open
The opening of Edge, the highest outdoor sky deck in the Western Hemisphere, offering 360-degree views of New York City’s iconic skyline will be celebrated...
06 March 2020
New Downtown Dallas High-Rise Will Offer Affordable Housing
Developers are breaking ground in downtown Dallas on a high-rise residential building. The apartment project at 2400 Bryan St. will include a combination of affordable...
04 March 2020
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Undergoing Major Expansion
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), bursting at the seams on its University City campus, has unleashed a US$3.4 billion building boom. Planned new construction...
03 March 2020
Los Angeles Residential Building Opens Decades After Damage from Earthquake
When she first laid eyes on Panorama Tower along Van Nuys Boulevard, Panorama City resident Cheryl Compton thought it “looked like a bomb had gone...
02 March 2020
Mixed-Use Building Proposed for Cambridge’s Kendall Square to Emphasize the Arts
For a long time, Kendall Square has lacked a public gathering space, or much in the way of any type of cultural space. Now, a...
28 February 2020
Apartment Tower Proposed for Transit-Adjacent Parking Lot in Los Angeles
Off the 110 Freeway near downtown Los Angeles, stands a low-rise Italianate-inspired student apartment complex—The Lorenzo. Now the developer of that project, G.H. Palmer Associates,...
27 February 2020
New York City Judge Rules Against Luxury Development Embraced by Mayor
A state judge barred a developer from building four high-rise towers at 260 South Street that had been set to offer hundreds of pricey apartments....
26 February 2020
Proposed Mixed-Use Complex in Los Angeles Will Include Rent-Restricted Units
Plans to redevelop a struggling mall into 34 acres (14 hectares) of housing, new shops, and an event venue has become the first major project...
24 February 2020
Residential Buildings Proposed for Chicago’s Fulton Market Receive Initial Approval
Chicago officials approved two high-rise apartment developments that would build 920 apartments in Fulton Market despite criticism that few apartments would be set aside for...
20 February 2020
“Leaning Tower of Dallas” Becomes a City’s Star Attraction
The core of an 11-story Dallas office building was left standing after a planned implosion, creating what locals have dubbed the “Leaning Tower of Dallas.”...
19 February 2020
Proposed Hospital Tower Redevelopment in New York Undergoes Design Change
Northwell Health is looking to scrap its controversial plan to build a 41-story apartment tower on the Upper East Side of New York City, which...
18 February 2020
Financing Secured for Residential High-Rise in Philadelphia
Radnor Property Group has landed US$142.6 million in financing for The Hamilton, a new high-rise apartment community in Philadelphia’s Center City neighborhood. The core, Class...
14 February 2020
Skyscraper to Rise in Downtown Los Angeles’ Historic Core
A skyscraper is slated to rise over a future subway station near the Los Angeles Grand Central Market. The latest renderings by Solomon Cordwell Buenz...
13 February 2020
Developer Buys Frisco Site for Hotel and Residential Tower
Dallas-based JMJ Hospitality says that it has purchased land in Frisco for its previously announced hotel and residential tower. The developer bought 4.5 acres (1.8...
12 February 2020
Transit-Oriented Development Completed in Los Angeles
Park Fifth Tower 2, a 24-story high-rise building, and the adjacent Trademark, a seven-story mid-rise building in overlooking Pershing Square in Downtown Los Angeles, has...
12 February 2020
Financing Acquired for Miami Transit-Oriented Development
The developers at a massive mixed-use project along U.S. Highway 1 just closed on a US$99 million construction loan for Tower II of the Link...
10 February 2020
Construction on Duluth Residential Tower Expected to Start Within Months
Despite being twice delayed, a new 15-story apartment building, dubbed Lakeview Tower, soon should be coming to Duluth's downtown skyline. Adam Fulton, deputy director of...
06 February 2020
Renderings Approved for 27-Story Tower in Jersey City
The neighborhoods surrounding Jersey City’s Journal Square have quite a few high-rise developments that are either under construction or fully approved, and a new plan...
05 February 2020
Detroit High-Rise Projects Undergo Scale Backs and Restoration
The Michigan Opera Theatre confirmed on 31 January 2020 it’s pausing a plan to develop a new building, just days after Bedrock Detroit acknowledged it...
04 February 2020
Office and Residential Towers Proposed on Chicago’s North Side
Chicago’s lakefront rarely sees much in the way of new development since most of the prime waterfront real estate is already built-up. But in the...
03 February 2020
Residential Tower Moves Forward in Las Vegas
A new tall building in the Symphony Park District of Las Vegas by 2024 could be a residential tower stretching to 18 stories. The developer...
31 January 2020
A 37-Story Residential Tower, Other Homes, Coming to Fast-Changing Areas in Charlotte
In the first zoning meeting of 2020, the Charlotte city council approved a handful of projects that will add hundreds of homes to fast-growing areas...
30 January 2020
Fire Erupts at Los Angeles High-Rise Apartment Building for Second Time Since 2013
Thirteen people were injured, and countless residents were displaced after a windswept fire tore through a 25-story apartment building on the west side of Los...
29 January 2020
Skyscraper Inches Towards Approval in San Francisco
The Planning Commission in San Francisco has approved a new 61-story, 806-foot (246-meter) mixed-use tower at Transbay Center. Designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects for...
27 January 2020
Raleigh to Receive New City Hall in High-Rise Form
A new municipal tower will be designed to reflect Raleigh’s stature as a city of innovation, support high-quality public services, and an efficient healthy workplace,...
24 January 2020
Permit Filed for High-Rise Tower to Replace Parking Garage on Boston's Waterfront
Developers recently unveiled design proposals for The Pinnacle at Central Wharf, a 42-story skyscraper that would replace a parking garage on the Boston waterfront. The...
23 January 2020
Developer Delays Construction on Residential Tower in San Francisco
It’s been more than two years since San Francisco City Hall approved the residential 400-foot (122-meter) high-rise, One Oak tower, designed by Oslo-based Snøhetta. But...
22 January 2020
Atlanta High-Rise Projects Move Forward
Midtown planning leaders reviewed revised plans the week of 13 January 2020 for major construction projects that could make the subdistrict taller, denser, and more...
20 January 2020
High-Rise Residential Tower Under Construction in Austin
Natiivo, the high-rise condo-hotel building under construction in the Rainey Street district of Austin, has released new interior renderings in conjunction with the opening of...
09 January 2020
Cantilevered Hotel Begins Ascent In New York City's Midtown
Construction is now above street level at 58 West 39th Street, aka H Hotel W39, in Midtown. Designed by Peter F. Poon Architect and developed...
08 January 2020
San Antonio Hospital Site to Be Repurposed
A south Texas hotel and hospitality group has purchased the former Nix Medical Center. One of its owners said on 3 January 2020 he plans...
07 January 2020
Developer Pulls the Plug on Planned Berkeley Mixed-Use Project
The developer of an 18-story building in downtown Berkeley that faced early legal challenges from community members has unexpectedly scrapped its plans, officials said on...
06 January 2020
Mixed-Use Tower Planned for Austin
Ryan Companies, architect Page Southerland Page, and banking firm BBVA USA plan to build a 60-story downtown Austin skyscraper that will have both office and...
20 December 2019
Skyscraper Projects in Chicago’s Near West Side Move Forward
Global architecture firm Goettsch Partners (GP) announced the groundbreaking on 20 December 2019 for Union Station Tower, also known as BMO Tower, a new 50-story...
19 December 2019
Development Proposals in Brooklyn Move Forward
A new waterfront park and two mixed-use towers may soon come to the Brooklyn waterfront, north of the Domino Sugar Factory redevelopment site in the...
18 December 2019
Planned Amazon Headquarters Gets Approval from Arlington Officials
Amazon can start building its twin 22-story headquarters buildings in Pentagon City, the Arlington County Board agreed on 14 December 2019 in a 5-to-0 vote,...
17 December 2019
Two Boston Site Redevelopments Move Forward
The Abbey Group began demolition of the former site of the Boston Flower Exchange in the South End neighborhood of Boston on 12 December 2019....
16 December 2019
Site Acquired for Proposed Residential Complex in Los Angeles
Chinese developer City Century has acquired a prime development site across the street from L.A. Live in downtown Los Angeles, where it intends to build...
13 December 2019
Planned Miami Hotels Partner with Online Rental Companies
Miami’s first Airbnb-branded building is rising in its downtown area. The 48-story tower, dubbed Natiivo, will have 604 units, including 412 condos and 192 hotel...
12 December 2019
Atlanta High-Rise Proposals Move Forward
On 10 December 2019, the Midtown Development Review Committee (DRC) scrapped a proposed 46-story tower but advanced two other proposals for Atlanta’s skyline. During its...
11 December 2019
University Science Center Breaks Ground in Boston
Mayor Marty Walsh and Boston University (BU) President Robert Brown were the guests of honor at the 5 December groundbreaking for BU’s future Center for...
10 December 2019
Luxury Condo Tower in Miami Topped Off
Two Roads Development’s Elysee condominium tower in Downtown Miami is one step closer to completion. The Arquitectonica-designed tower, located on the waterfront at 788 Northeast...
09 December 2019
Financial Backing Clears Way for High-Rise in San Diego
Parkview Financial announced it has provided a US$7 million loan to San Francisco-based India & Beech, LLC for the acquisition of a land parcel and...
06 December 2019
New Renderings Released of Atlanta-Area Elevator Test Tower and HQ Office
The planned Innovation and Qualification Center (IQC) in Vinings has a new look yet again. Designed by global architecture firm Gensler, the 420-foot (128-meter) structure...
05 December 2019
Chicago Skyscraper Plans to Start Construction After Securing Financial Backing
Work is set to begin in December 2019 on a 1.5 million-square-foot (139,000-square-meter) office tower alongside Union Station, after the developers landed a US$476 million...
05 December 2019
Revised Design for San Francisco Tower Submitted
The proposed tower on Transbay Parcel F, in downtown San Francisco, has gone through a redesign that shaved off space and planned housing. The developers...
05 December 2019
Bank Headquarters Opens in Downtown Raleigh
FNB Tower, a new 22-story building at 501 Fayetteville Street in downtown Raleigh, opened its doors on 4 December 2019. Construction lasted for almost two...
02 December 2019
Planned Los Angeles Residential Complex to Proceed After Lawsuit Dismissed
Harridge Development has successfully dismissed a recent lawsuit against its Crossroads of the World megaproject in Hollywood. A judge has tossed the lawsuit from the...
27 November 2019
Blaze in Minneapolis High-Rise Results in Casualties
Five people died in the early morning of 27 November 2019 in a fire on the 14th floor of a Minneapolis public-housing high rise, with...
25 November 2019
Excavation Begins for New Residential Skyscraper in New York City
Excavation and foundation work on Bjarke Ingels Group‘s (BIG) Strata Tower at 8 West 30th Street, has gotten deeper below the streets of New York...
21 November 2019
Planned Chicago Supertall Undergoes Minimal Changes After Community Review
On 19 November 2019, developers unveiled updated plans for a mixed-use supertall tower slated for the parking lot just east of Chicago’s landmark Tribune Tower....
18 November 2019
Proposed Skyscraper in Salt Lake City Would Take Place of Aging Theater
Elected officials in Salt Lake City will discuss a sales price for the Utah Theater on 12 November 2019, after the city quietly inked a...
15 November 2019
Multi-Tenant Office Tower to be Built in Downtown Kansas City
A divided City Council approved a financing agreement for a multi-tenant downtown office tower, the likes of which Kansas City, Missouri hasn’t seen in more...
13 November 2019
Downtown Cleveland Gets First New Residential High-Rise in Decades
Cleveland-based real estate developer Stark Enterprises and joint partner Reuven Dessler celebrated the grand opening of its US$95 million residential high-rise development, The Beacon, at...
12 November 2019
Transit-Oriented High-Rise in Los Angeles Passes Environmental Review
Plans for a 31-story tower, near the landmark Grand Central Market at 340 South Hill Street, have made their way through the Los Angeles City...
11 November 2019
Mixed-Income High-Rise Planned for Federal Opportunity Zone in Milwaukee
The Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee (HACM), through its development arm Travaux Inc., plans to construct a 32-story mixed-income tower to fill a...
08 November 2019
San Jose to See New High-Rise After Raising Height Restrictions
Calling it a watershed moment for the capital of Silicon Valley, city officials broke ground on what could eventually become San Jose’s tallest building. At...
07 November 2019
Permits Filed for New Skyscraper in Jersey City
Permits have been filed for a 68-story mixed-use skyscraper at 242 Hudson Street in Jersey City named Harborside 8. If approved, the 708-foot-tall (216-meter) building...
05 November 2019
Hotel, Retail Portions of Los Angeles’ Century Plaza Open in Spring 2020
The ambitious $2.5-billion Century Plaza project, centered on the landmark crescent-shaped hotel that has hosted presidents and rock stars over more than five decades, has...
05 November 2019
Seattle Apartment Tower Welcomes First Residents
Ascent South Lake Union, Seattle's newest urban residential building by national multifamily developer Greystar, has completed construction and begun welcoming its first residents to the...
04 November 2019
Renovations to Indianapolis High-Rise Will Replace its Golden Façade
Known as the Gold Building, Market Square Center in downtown Indianapolis is set to lose its distinct luster. After purchasing the 20-story office tower in...
01 November 2019
Miami’s Brickell Flatiron Receives Key Occupancy Certificate
Brickell Flatiron, the new 64-story luxury condominium tower in Downtown Miami’s Brickell Financial District, has received its Temporary Certificate of Occupancy (TCO) from the City...
25 October 2019
Luxury Residential Tower Breaks Ground in Minneapolis
Construction has begun on Eleven, a 44-story, 118-residence luxury condominium that is planned to rise to 547 feet (167 meters), potentially becoming the tallest residential...
24 October 2019
Planned Skyscraper Above Boston Rail Station Moves Forward
South Station Tower is planned to rise 677 feet (206.4 meters) above South Station, an aging transportation hub in Boston that’s swarmed daily by thousands...
23 October 2019
Designs for New San Francisco Development Revealed
A canyon-like tower by MVRDV and a twisting structure by Studio Gang are among the buildings to be revealed for a new San Francisco development....
22 October 2019
Two Greater Washington DC-Area Projects Receive Key Approvals
A large mixed-use development near the Wiehle-Reston East Metro station just earned a green light from the Fairfax Board of Supervisors. To the southeast, a...
21 October 2019
One of Two Damaged Cranes Demolished at Collapsed New Orleans Hotel
The demolition of two construction cranes that were in danger of falling didn’t go exactly as planned on 20 October 2019, at the site of...
18 October 2019
Construction Suspended on San Francisco High-Rise Due to Rising Costs
Chinese developer Oceanwide Holdings suspended construction on a 605-foot (184-meter) tower in San Francisco’s Transbay district, one of the city’s largest projects, as it grapples...
18 October 2019
Student Housing Scheme to Rise in Bristol
Bristol City Council has waved away criticism of proposed high-rise student blocks designed by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris and approved the designs. The accommodation will...
16 October 2019
Tower to be Built Above Toll Road in Boston
The first office tower to get built above the Massachusetts Turnpike in nearly 40 years could start work in early 2020, with a tenant in...
15 October 2019
Australian Developer to Build Hotel Tower in Houston
One of Midtown’s most transformative projects, Caydon’s Laneways, announced boutique hotel and dining operator Kimpton Hotels will be coming to the 2.5 million square-foot (232,000...
14 October 2019
Hotel Under Construction in New Orleans Partially Collapses
One person is still missing, believed to be trapped inside the Hard Rock Hotel New Orleans after the building partially collapsed without warning on the...
11 October 2019
Over 330 Luxury Apartments Delivered in New Frisco Residential High-Rise
What could be Frisco’s tallest building is about to open its doors. The 25-story SkyHouse Frisco Station is easy to spot on the west side...
10 October 2019
Architect Chosen for Rolex Headquarters in New York City
Following an international design competition, David Chipperfield Architects has been selected to build the Rolex USA Headquarters in New York. The new 25-story tower will...
09 October 2019
Ann Arbor High-Rise Gets Initial Approval
A 19-story high-rise behind the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor is headed to City Council. After hearing mostly support from several residents who spoke...
08 October 2019
Chicago’s Next Supertall Nears Approval Amid Flurry of Development
The developer of a proposed supertall skyscraper on North Michigan Avenue next to Tribune Tower is nearing an agreement with the city in “a couple...
07 October 2019
Mixed-Use Development in Miami Beach Gets Approval
Matis Cohen and the Galbut family’s proposal to significantly make over Miami Beach’s Carlyle and Byron avenues scored an important approval on 2 October 2019....
03 October 2019
Three New Projects in Development for Chicago’s West Loop Neighborhood
Already a forest of construction cranes, Chicago’s booming Fulton Market District is preparing to welcome more big projects to its pipeline. Developers have submitted zoning...
01 October 2019
Mixed-Use Development Planned for Los Angeles’ Sunset Strip
New imagery and details have been released by Morphosis that highlight 8850 Sunset Boulevard, a 15-story mixed-use project slated for development on the Sunset Strip...
30 September 2019
Proposed Wooden High-Rise in Milwaukee Gets Final Changes Approved
The City of Milwaukee Plan Commission and the Zoning, Neighborhoods and Development Committee have unanimously approved changes to New Land Enterprises’ Ascent residential project that...
27 September 2019
Providence Residential Tower Moves One Step Closer To Construction
New York developer Jason Fane is one step closer to building a downtown skyscraper that he hopes will become as symbolic to Providence as the...
26 September 2019
New Skyscraper in Seattle Set to Receive High-Tech Tenants
Tech company Qualtrics, which two years ago designated Seattle as its co-headquarters, doubled down Wednesday, 26 September 2019, with the announcement of a huge new...
25 September 2019
Demolition Begins to Make Way for New Tampa Mixed-Use High-Rise
The six-story CapTrust building on the Southwest corner of Ashley Drive and Whiting Street started coming down on 25 September 2019. The demolition of the...
23 September 2019
Rochester’s Former Rotating Rooftop Restaurant Gets New High-Tech Tenant
On September 19th, Panasonic, a Japanese electronics company, announced that it has opened an office in First Federal Plaza‘s flying saucer-shaped penthouse, which offers panoramic...
18 September 2019
Two Supertalls Top Out in New York City
The Grand Central Terminal-adjacent supertall One Vanderbilt officially topped out this week, reaching its full 1,401-foot (427-meter) height. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox, the tower...
16 September 2019
Residential Skyscraper Proposed for Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City is poised to get another addition to its already fast-growing skyline—and this high-rise could shatter the city’s height record. The proposed Kensington...
13 September 2019
Proposed Skyscraper Glides through Los Angeles Planning Commission
Plans for what could become one of Downtown’s most unique-looking skyscrapers received unanimous approval today from the Los Angeles city planning commission. With cantilevered swimming...
12 September 2019
Seattle’s Second Avenue Hosts New Crop of Residential Towers
Seattle’s Second Avenue has quickly morphed into a corridor of new towers rising around Pike Place Market. West Edge, a 39-story, 440-foot-tall skyscraper, was the...
11 September 2019
Detroit’s Historic Book Tower Undergoing Major Redevelopment
ODA-Architecture out of New York City has been hired as design architect for the Book Tower and Book Building redevelopment on Washington Boulevard in downtown...
10 September 2019
Chicago Renovation Pays Homage to Building’s Mod Design History
The South Loop apartment building that was once headquarters to the Ebony/Jet publishing empire is in the final stages of renovation. The groovy look of...
09 September 2019
New Permits Filed for Tower in New York City
Boston Properties has filed permits for a 888-foot-tall (270-meter-tall) tower at 3 Hudson Boulevard. There have been many changes to the development since the Moinian...
06 September 2019
Bright Red Skyscraper to Anchor Neighborhood-Making Project in Philadelphia
Brilliant red terra-cotta laces the design scheme of architect Vishaan Chakrabarti’s first Philadelphia skyscraper. He chose the fire-engine red material for a reason: It’s the...
05 September 2019
Las Vegas to See 52-Story, Non-Gaming Resort Tower
Las Vegas developer Lorenzo Doumani is set to break ground on an $850 million luxury resort in Las Vegas. The five-star, non-gaming, 720-room, all-suite resort...
04 September 2019
Residents of San Francisco’s Millennium Tower Tentatively Reach Lawsuit Settlement
A settlement has been tentatively reached in a lawsuit involving tenants of the sinking Millennium Tower in downtown San Francisco, an attorney representing the luxury...
30 August 2019
New York City’s Grand Hyatt to be Demolished and Replaced With Office Building
A New York city building once owned and reclad by US President Donald Trump is headed for the wrecking ball. A new joint development by...
29 August 2019
Multi-Phase Residential Tower Complex Nears Completion in Chicago
On Chicago’s Near North Side, the third and final high-rise of the multi-phase plan to redevelop the Atrium Village housing complex into Old Town Park...
27 August 2019
Downtown Fort Worth Plans for Residential Boom
In the near future, residential growth will be a prominent feature on downtown Fort Worth skyline. Two residential buildings are moving forward: a 17- to...
26 August 2019
Redesign Revealed for Hotel Tower on New York City’s Far West Side
A new rendering has been released for 450 Eleventh Avenue, a 487-foot (148.4-meter) hotel tower by Marx Development Groups near Hudson Yards. The redesign appears...
23 August 2019
Los Angeles Flower Market Redevelopment is Moving Forward
The Los Angeles City Planning Commission has approved the redevelopment of the city’s Southern California Flower Market by local firm Brooks + Scarpa Architects. The...
22 August 2019
New Renderings for 184-Meter Skyscraper in New Rochelle Released
Hill West Architects recently released new renderings for 11 Lawton Street, which would be New Rochelle’s new tallest skyscraper. Permit filing began in June for...
21 August 2019
Seattle’s Rainier Square Tops Out
With construction topping off, Rainier Square is set to become the second-tallest skyscraper in the city of Seattle. The last steel beam was placed on...
20 August 2019
Construction at Los Angeles’ Cumulus Development Nears Peak
Three cranes are in full swing on the corner of Jefferson and La Cienega Boulevards, as construction goes vertical at the 11-acre (4.5-hectare) Cumulus site....
16 August 2019
Upper West Side Tower Tops Out in New York City Amid Legal Conflict
A controversial Upper West Side condo tower has topped out at 52 stories, despite an ongoing legal battle over whether the project violates the city’s...
14 August 2019
New Tower to Rise on Site of Landmark Hollywood, Florida Hotel
A dead zone on a prime downtown Hollywood corner, once home to a bustling 1920s-era hotel, will soon get new life in the form of...
13 August 2019
Glass-Clad Mixed-Use Tower to Replace Old Brick Building in Chicago
Just weeks after securing a zoning change from city officials, developer Sterling Bay is moving forward with its plans to demolish an older building on...
12 August 2019
Federal Court Overturns Ruling to Seize Iran-Linked Skyscraper in New York City
A federal appeals court in the United States has overturned a previous ruling by a lower court that had ordered the seizure of an Iran-linked...
09 August 2019
Developers to Present Final Design for Providence Skyscraper
Developer the Fane Organization has received a one-month extension to file a request for city property tax incentives for the project known as the Hope...
08 August 2019
Height of Future Detroit Skyscraper to be Revised; Sky Deck Plan is Canceled
During a news conference on 7 August 2019 on the construction process of the so-called Hudson Skyscraper, officials with Detroit-based commercial real estate firm Bedrock...
07 August 2019
Controversy Surrounds Chicago West Loop Apartment Towers
Despite pushback from neighbors, a West Loop alderman said he is likely to sign off on a trio of new buildings that would bring nearly...
06 August 2019
New York City’s Sutton 58 Rises Past Cantilever
A yellow safety cocoon has been installed around the perimeter of the floor plates at Sutton 58 (also known as 3 Sutton Place and 426-432...
05 August 2019
Downtown San Diego Skyscraper to Provide Affordable Housing Units
The former courthouse in San Diego’s civic core will be demolished and replaced with a 37-story apartment and office complex. Due to the developer’s preferred...
02 August 2019
Mixed-Use Tower to Rise in Dallas’ Uptown District
An Austin, Texas commercial developer plans to build a 19-story mixed-use tower in Dallas’ Uptown district. Endeavor Real Estate Group purchased the half-block site last...
01 August 2019
Construction Complete on Paramount Miami Worldcenter
Four years ago, developers launched sales of the Paramount Miami Worldcenter condominiums, and now construction of the downtown Miami tower is complete. Developer Dan Kodsi...
31 July 2019
New York City Building That Spurred Modern Zoning Gets Makeover
When completed in 1915, New York’s Equitable Building was the largest building in the world. Located at 120 Broadway in Manhattan’s financial district, it stands...
30 July 2019
Historic Seattle Façade Prioritized in Emerging Skyscraper Design
Kengo Kuma & Associates has gone to great lengths to preserve and highlight a century-old Gothic Revival building in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood, proposing a mixed-use...
29 July 2019
Elevator Malfunctions Continue in Chicago Skyscraper
A group of people on floor 96 of the former John Hancock Center in Chicago became entrapped on their elevator to the ground floor over...
26 July 2019
Downtown St. Paul Riverfront Project Proposed
Developers of a Ramsey County project hoping to place high-rises and public recreational space along a large swath of St. Paul’s downtown riverfront presented a...
25 July 2019
Foundation Work Begins For 29th & 5th, New York City’s Latest Skyscraper
Excavation work has commenced for 29th & 5th, Bjarke Ingels Group‘s proposed skyscraper at 3 West 29th Street in NoMad, New York City. Excavators, piling...
24 July 2019
Skyline-Defining Tower Proposed in San Jose
The Market Towers complex, a new downtown San Jose office high-rise that features four towers designed to coalesce into a single striking complex, will redefine...
23 July 2019
A Condo Tower Will Break Ground in Chicago in September
A 47-story condo tower known as Cirrus readies to break ground in Chicago. Located steps from Lake Michigan, Navy Pier, Maggie Daley Park, and the...
19 July 2019
Uptown Dallas’ Next Big Development Will Have Office, Residential, and Hotel Towers
Dallas’ Uptown district is getting a new high-rise development. The project at Cedar Springs Road and Routh Street just south of Turtle Creek is one...
18 July 2019
Transformation of Chicago’s Willis Tower Begins with New Art-Filled Lobby
EQ Office, the US office portfolio company owned by Blackstone, has reopened Willis Tower’s Wacker Drive lobby, featuring a new, one-of-a-kind art installation created by...
17 July 2019
Chicago’s Fulton Market Sees Continued Expansion
Online job marketplace Glassdoor plans to hire 500 employees in Chicago over the next few years and has expanded its office in the Fulton Market...
16 July 2019
Demolition Wraps for Two New Residential Skyscrapers in New York City
Demolition has been completed at the site of 601 West 29th Street in Hudson Yards for an upcoming 695-foot-tall (211-meter-tall), 58-story skyscraper designed by FXCollaborative...
15 July 2019
Tech Giant to Expand Into Chicago’s West Loop
Downtown Chicago’s booming tech scene is in for another big jump. Accenture will be expanding into seven floors of the newly named Accenture Tower, bringing...
12 July 2019
Details Emerge for New Long Beach Skyscraper
An environmental report published last week by the City of Long Beach, California details plans from Trammell Crow Residential to build a skyline-altering development on...
11 July 2019
Shreveport’s First Skyscraper Gets New Life
When the Commercial National Bank was built in 1910, it was the first skyscraper built in Shreveport. Peter Youree, president of the Commercial National Bank,...
10 July 2019
Plan For New 18-Story Tower Receives Approval From Philadelphia Committee
Developer Parkway Corp. is getting positive early feedback from members of a Center City neighborhood group whose support it could need to build a proposed...
09 July 2019
Two-Tower Seattle Condominium Development Site Sells for $60 Million
Concord Pacific, the largest master-planning urban community builder in Canada, has purchased a 38,934-square-foot (3,617-square-meter) half-block in downtown Seattle adjacent to Amazon’s headquarters for a...
05 July 2019
One Thousand Museum in Downtown Miami Has Officially Opened for Business
One Thousand Museum, the late Zaha Hadid’s final residential tower in the United States, is the newest high-end condominium to grace Biscayne Boulevard in the...
03 July 2019
Tech Giant to Build New Office Tower in Bellevue
Amazon plans to build a 43-story tower in Bellevue, projected to be its tallest office building anywhere, as well as possibly becoming the city’s tallest...
01 July 2019
New Tech Hub in Charlotte to Bring a 23-Story Tower
In a major nod to Charlotte’s growing technology workforce, Lowe’s announced June 27 that it has selected the city for a 2,000-employee global tech hub,...
28 June 2019
Mall Owners Plan 30-Story Tower on Property in Raleigh
Earlier this year, the owners of Raleigh’s Crabtree Valley Mall said they were beginning to plot a new future for one of the area’s most...
27 June 2019
Construction of 438-Condo Skyscraper Approved in Los Angeles
The Los Angeles City Council’s planning and land use management committee voted Tuesday, 25 June to approve plans for a 41-story tower at Figueroa and...
26 June 2019
Two Downtown Houston Skyscrapers to be Sold for US$627 Million
The downtown Houston skyscraper commonly called JPMorgan Chase Tower, located at 600 Travis St., and the adjacent Chase Center building are reportedly being sold in...
25 June 2019
Jersey City’s 72-Story Journal Squared Rising Rapidly
Work on the second phase of Journal Squared at 537 Summit Avenue in Jersey City is progressing quickly. Construction workers are pouring the floor slabs...
21 June 2019
Ground Broken for New Skyscraper in Downtown Boston
The Boston skyline will be changing, as construction is underway for what could become the tallest office building built in the city since 1984. Mayor...
20 June 2019
New 28-Story Skyscraper to be Built in Oakland
The CEO of Kaiser Permanente announced 17 June 2019 that the company will be constructing a new headquarters in Oakland and will call it The...
19 June 2019
Portland Building Renovation Could Kill its Historic Status
An audit by the City of Portland, Oregon, has found that the DLR Group’s renovation of the Michael Graves–designed Portland Building is over budget and,...
18 June 2019
Design for New 47-Story Condo Tower in Philadelphia Revealed
In a ceremony at the Kimmel Center Tuesday, Carl Dranoff revealed what he called “the crowning achievement of my career.” That achievement is a 47-story,...
17 June 2019
A 56-Story Luxury Residential Tower in San Francisco Has Completed
OMA has completed a 56-story glass tower in San Francisco’s Transbay District, which contains a combination of condominium residences and apartment rentals. The project, titled...
13 June 2019
Office Tower Would be the First Phase of Downtown San Jose Mega-Campus
A new downtown San Jose office tower is expected to begin construction in autumn, marking the beginning of a mega-campus envisioned by developer Jay Paul...
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12 June 2019
Federal Judge Tosses Lawsuit Against Chicago’s Obama Center
A federal judge declared Tuesday, 11 June, 2019 that “construction should commence without delay” on the Obama Presidential Center (OPC) in Chicago’s historic Jackson Park....
11 June 2019
Helicopter Crash-Lands on Midtown Manhattan Building, Killing Pilot
A helicopter crash-landed atop a 51-story office tower in Midtown Manhattan, killing the pilot, clogging the skyscraper’s stairwells with thousands of evacuating workers and sending...
10 June 2019
Crane Falls on Dallas Apartment Building, Killing One and Injuring Six
At least one person has died and six were injured after a crane being used on the under-construction The Gabriella fell onto an apartment complex...
07 June 2019
Scalloped Condominium Tower Tops Out in Brooklyn, New York City
The Studio Gang-designed 11 Hoyt has topped out in Brooklyn to its full height of 626 feet (191 meters), offering 481 luxury residential condominiums, with...
06 June 2019
Excavation Begins For 25 Columbus Drive In Jersey City
The first stages of excavation at 25 Columbus Drive are apparent, as the asphalt from the former parking lot is now being ripped up. This...
05 June 2019
Luxury 57-Story Condominium Takes Shape in Miami
Arquitectonica’s newest luxury high-rise on the Miami skyline is reaching new heights. Vertical construction of Two Roads Development’s Elysee condominiums, a 57-story waterfront glass tower...
04 June 2019
Co-Housing High-Rise Latest “X Social” Community in Phoenix
A residential high-rise under construction in the downtown core marks a milestone in downtown Phoenix residential development, city officials say. The 20-story, 253-unit apartment, retail...
03 June 2019
New Design Revealed for Massive Two-Towered Development in New York City
Possibly the final design for 520 West 41st Street, located in Midtown West between Eleventh Avenue and Galvin Avenue, has been revealed. Silverstein Properties, the...
29 May 2019
NBA Superstar Sets Opening Day for Newark Skyscraper
New Brunswick-based Boraie Development and Newark native and former National Basketball Association superstar Shaquille O’Neal have set June 20, 2019 as the date for the...
28 May 2019
Detroit’s Michigan Central Station Renovation Continues Apace, Unearthing Artifacts in the Process
Ford Motor Company said on 23 May, 2019 that it is on track on the renovation of the Michigan Central Depot, entering the second of...
23 May 2019
Vacant St. Louis Skyscraper May Have a Buyer
The vacant AT&T skyscraper at 900 Pine Street in downtown St. Louis, empty since the fall of 2017, may finally get a new owner. During...
22 May 2019
Consular Tower Tops Out in New York City
The Turkevi Center has topped out at 821 First Avenue in the Midtown East neighborhood of Turtle Bay. Work on the curving, sloped crown of...
21 May 2019
Construction on Minneapolis Skyscraper Expected to Begin
The Minneapolis skyline has been mostly untouched for nearly 20 years. But by the end of June, the city is expected to finalize the sale...
20 May 2019
Martin Tower Vanishes from the Lehigh Valley Landscape
In 14 seconds on Sunday, 19 May, a poignant and fittingly spectacular end came to the former world headquarters of Bethlehem Steel. As bystanders lined...
16 May 2019
Window Washers Rescued From Rogue Lift Atop Oklahoma City’s Tallest Building
Two window washers were working atop a 52-story skyscraper in Oklahoma City on Wednesday morning, 15 May, 2019, when strong gusts of wind began swinging...
15 May 2019
Mass Timber Apartment Tower Moves Forward with Grant in Milwaukee
A downtown Milwaukee high-rise has found support from an unlikely source: the United States Department of Agriculture. The department’s Forestry Service division announced this week...
13 May 2019
A 45-Story Jail Tower May Rise in New York City
New York City’s 10-year plan to close Rikers Island, a 413.17-acre (167.204-hectare) island in the East River between Queens and the Bronx that is home...
09 May 2019
Vacant Dallas Tower is Being Restored
A new team has come to the rescue of downtown Dallas’ biggest building project. Revival of the First National Bank tower, vacant for almost a ...
07 May 2019
Hotel and Condo Tower is the Latest Addition to a Nashville Skyline on the Rise
Work is underway at SoBro’s 151 site (i.e., South of Broadway at 151 First Avenue) to become one of downtown Nashville’s four largest skyscrapers. The...
06 May 2019
Latest Plan for a New York City Supertall Revealed
Amidst the ongoing evolution of the Manhattan skyline, one of the most notable recent changes has been the completion of the Midtown East rezoning, which...
03 May 2019
Medical Skyscraper Proposed for Downtown Orlando
The developer of the proposed Vertical Medical City in downtown Orlando has filed an application with the city for the construction of a mixed-use medical...
02 May 2019
Raleigh’s City Council May Request Affordable Units for Proposed Skyscraper
Developer John Kane’s proposed 40-story skyscraper seems to check every box for Raleigh’s downtown growth and density plans. The three-acre (1.2 hectare) lot at the...
01 May 2019
Shuttered New Orleans Landmark Tower to be Fully Renovated
Construction has started on the complete transformation of a one of the most prominent buildings on the New Orleans skyline into a Four Seasons Hotel...
30 April 2019
Two Towers Progress onto Chicago’s Iconic Skyline
Vista Tower reached its final height on April 26 2019, when construction workers poured concrete to form the Chicago skyscraper’s 101st and final floor. That...
29 April 2019
Modular High-Rise Hotel in New York City Assembled in Poland
Marriott International Inc. has begun constructing what it says will be the tallest modular hotel in the world, in Manhattan’s NoMad neighborhood. Its 168 guest...
26 April 2019
New Life for Unfinished Las Vegas Hotel
A victim of the 2008 financial crisis, the former Fontainebleau Las Vegas resort and casino has stood empty, unfinished and dark over the bright lights...
25 April 2019
Residential Project Coming to Downtown Atlanta
Banyan Street Capital and Greystar have announced the acquisition of the air rights and closing of construction financing for Ascent Peachtree, a multifamily project in...
24 April 2019
Historic Chicago Board of Trade Building Up for Sale
The owners of the Chicago Board of Trade Building are putting the landmark tower up for sale, looking to cash out with a big profit...
23 April 2019
A Higher, Denser Skyline is on the Rise in Salt Lake City
“There’s no question, Salt Lake City’s skyline is about to get higher and denser,” said Nick Norris, Salt Lake City’s planning director. “We are definitely...
22 April 2019
“Kaleidoscopic” Los Angeles Skyscraper Moves Ahead
By 2023, the car wash at the corner of Figueroa and Olympic could be replaced with a “kaleidoscopic” 58-story skyscraper. That’s according to a new...
19 April 2019
New Legislation Limits Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Buildings in New York City
New York City is about to embark on an ambitious plan to fight climate change that would force thousands of large buildings, like the Empire...
18 April 2019
Slender Skyscraper Designed to Soften New York City’s Skyline
MAD Architects have revealed a new vision for New York City skyscrapers with a sinuous slender tower near the Empire State Building. Dubbed “East 34th”,...
17 April 2019
Two New Apartment Projects Proposed in Chicago’s Gold Coast
Chicago-based developer Newcastle Limited has presented its plans for a pair of mixed-use Gold Coast developments. The two State Street projects would replace a cluster...
16 April 2019
New York City’s “Leaning Tower” Ensnarled in Legal Disputes and Plenty of Blame
Construction at One Seaport, aka 161 Maiden Lane, has been noticeably paused for the past several months. The 60-story reinforced concrete structure topped out back...
15 April 2019
Oklahoma City to Help Fund Retrofit of Landmark Building
With demolition set to wrap up and construction to start at First National Center, the Oklahoma City Council approved a tentative agreement to loan $26...
12 April 2019
Prize-Winning Architect has First Project in New York City
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Álvaro Siza has worked on numerous projects across the globe, many located in his native Portgual, but has yet to make his...
11 April 2019
Chicago City Council Approves Two Major Projects
After some aldermanic debate and occasional protester outbursts, the Chicago City Council approved up to $2.4 billion in public subsidies to support The 78 and...
10 April 2019
High-Rises Proposed for Downtown Phoenix Transit Hub
A major bus hub and light rail stop in downtown Phoenix could be getting a major makeover. The 2.6-acre (1.05-hectare) city-owned site at Central Avenue...
09 April 2019
Bethlehem Headquarters of Former Steel Giant Set to Come Down in May
Despite being listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010, the former Bethlehem Steel headquarters will be imploded on May 19, 2019, making...
08 April 2019
Renderings Revealed for 99 Hudson Boulevard, New York City
Developer Tishman Speyer has released renderings for 99 Hudson Boulevard, a 44-story office building at Hudson Yards. The site sits along 11th Avenue between West...
05 April 2019
Amazon Planning to Move Worldwide Operations Team from Seattle to Bellevue
In yet another sign that Amazon is cooling on its hometown of Seattle, the retail-entertainment-tech giant says it is planning to move its entire...
04 April 2019
Springfield Tower Development Gets Renovations, New Name
Related Companies, owners of Springfield’s beleaguered 489-unit Chestnut Park high-rise apartment complex, have changed the name of Chestnut Tower to Skyview Downtown just before...
03 April 2019
Houston Medical Tower Gets New Life
Houston’s newest high-profile hotel project is a win for preservationists, and an unlikely but fortuitous outcome for a once-acclaimed modernist building, which until recently was...
02 April 2019
New Skyscraper Leased to Tech Company in Austin
Topped by what’s labeled a “pyramidal crown,” Austin’s 33-story Frost Bank Tower debuted in 2004 at East Fourth Street and Congress Avenue. It soon earned...
29 March 2019
New York City May Close Zoning Loophole for Tall Buildings
Following a growing public uproar over developers exploiting loopholes to build tall buildings, the Department of City Planning on Friday March 28th proposed a zoning...
29 March 2019
Construction Completed on Miami-Dade Apartment Tower
13th Floor Investments and Adler Group, in collaboration with Miami-Dade County Transportation & Public Works have announced that Motion at Dadeland, a mixed-use project next...
28 March 2019
Chicago to See a New Skyscraper on Michigan Avenue
One of Chicago’s busiest real estate developers wants to build a 47-story residential and hotel tower on a stretch of North Michigan. Sterling Bay is...
26 March 2019
Mixed-Use High-Rise Tops Off in Nashville
Turner Construction Company’s Nashville office announced the topping out of 1200 Broadway, the luxury mixed-use high-rise in downtown Nashville. The 26-floor complex began construction in...
25 March 2019
Two-Skyscraper Development Coming to Midtown Detroit
Two new skyscrapers will be constructed in Midtown just north of the Whole Foods at Woodward and Mack avenues. The project, dubbed The Mid, will...
22 March 2019
Luxury Co-Working Firm Leases Penthouse in New Wacker Drive Tower in Chicago
The development team behind the new Bank of America Tower going up at 110 N. Wacker Drive today announced a 58,000-square-foot (5,388-square-meter) lease with No18,...
20 March 2019
Proposed San Diego Tower Moves Closer to Approval
A proposed 40-story apartment development in the East Village community of San Diego got high marks from the design committee of downtown’s planning agency, Civic...
19 March 2019
Renderings Released for Charlotte’s New Uptown Tower
Duke Energy released a rendering of its new uptown tower, providing a first look at one of several projects reshaping South Tryon Street. A spokesman...
18 March 2019
New York City Skyscraper Hits Roadblock After Legal Challenge
One of the forthcoming towers on New York’s Upper West Side may be stopped short after a court ruled this week against an earlier decision...
15 March 2019
New York City’s Hudson Yards’ Shops, Restaurants, Officially Open to The Public
At noon on March 15, 2019, New York’s newest neighborhood ceremonially opened for business. Hudson Yards‘ first public-facing attractions, the Shops & Restaurants and Thomas...
14 March 2019
Multiple Developments Approved and Proposed in Chicago
Chicago’s City Council has approved multiple new projects that are set to change the face of the skyline. Sterling Bay’s Lincoln Yards was approved by...
12 March 2019
Two Residential Skyscrapers Proposed for New York City’s Hunters Point South
Permits have been filed for two major new towers in Hunters Point South. The two proposed, glass residential buildings are being designed by Handel Architects...
12 March 2019
Drones Used to Inspect Salesforce Tower in San Francisco Indicative of Larger Trend
Months before two cracks were discovered on interior windows of Salesforce Tower – San Francisco’s tallest building, owner Boston Properties enlisted a drone to inspect...
11 March 2019
A Pair of Zigzagging Waterfront Towers is Set to Rise in New York City
The Greenpoint Landing megaproject in Brooklyn has gained a duo of interlocking rental towers courtesy of OMA. The ten-tower mixed-use development will ultimately bring 5,500...
08 March 2019
Construction Begins on 47-Story Office Tower in Downtown Houston
Houston-based real estate firm Hines plans to pour the concrete mat foundation for its latest downtown Houston project, Texas Tower, on the former Houston Chronicle...
07 March 2019
Tower Tops Out at 27-Story Luxury Condominium Development in Plano
Last week, Windrose Partners LP celebrated the official topping out of Windrose Tower, its 27-story luxury residential condominium high-rise, the only one of its kind...
06 March 2019
Chicago Development Plans to Include Unprecedented Amount of Affordable Units
The US$6 billion Lincoln Yards megadevelopment will include 600 affordable housing units – twice as many as required in a compromise by Sterling Bay as...
05 March 2019
New Residential Details Revealed for New York City’s 35 Hudson Yards
New details and renderings have been released for 35 Hudson Yards, set to be the tallest residential tower in the Hudson Yards neighborhood at over...
04 March 2019
E-Commerce Giant Backs Out of Seattle’s Rainier Square
Long Island City isn’t the only place that Amazon is pulling out of. The tech giant made waves when it threatened to withdraw from its...
01 March 2019
As One Chicago Lakefront Project Gets a New Deadline, Another is Announced
The owner of the Chicago Spire site could have another year to begin developing the lakefront site, four months after a downtown alderman rejected a...
27 February 2019
New Owners to Redevelop Dallas' Cityplace Tower
The new owners of Dallas’ Cityplace Tower are preparing to make the biggest investment in the property since the skyscraper opened in the 1980s. An...
26 February 2019
Tree-Inspired Tower Slated for Downtown Los Angeles
A new mixed-use tower slated for a growing section of Downtown Los Angeles, designed by Australian firm Koichi Takada Architects, could rise as high as...
25 February 2019
Renderings Revealed for 260-270 West 126th Street in New York City
A new mixed-use residential skyscraper is scheduled to rise at 260-270 West 126th Street in Central Harlem. Renderings have recently been released for the upcoming...
21 February 2019
Denver Skyscraper Projects Transform Skyline
Denver’s skyline reached rarely visited heights in 2018 when the 40-story 1144 Fifteenth office tower opened in March. Topping out at 183-meters (603-feet), it is...
19 February 2019
Wall of The Vandewater Starts Rising Above New York City’s Morningside Heights
Curtain wall installation has begun on the lower floors of The Vandewater in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of New York City. The Vandewater was designed...
18 February 2019
After 20 Years Vacant, 17 Crumbling Stories of Detroit’s Lee Plaza to be Restored
Detroit has a buyer for a 17-story, severely dilapidated high-rise that the city hopes to see restored. Lee Plaza could be sold to Detroit-based Roxbury...
15 February 2019
Tech Giant Cancels HQ2 Plans for New York City
Amazon has withdrawn its plans to bring half of its second North American headquarters to New York City. This comes after a report last week...
14 February 2019
Cleveland’s nuCLEus Building Will be Shorter than Previously Thought
The proposed 54-story nuCLEus skyscraper in downtown Cleveland looks to be trimmed by half in images of the project that surfaced Wednesday, January 23, 2019....
13 February 2019
The Grand Development Breaks Ground in Los Angeles
Gehry Partners’ twin-towered The Grand development in Downtown Los Angeles broke ground on 12 February, 2019. The sizable mixed-use complex is to be located directly...
12 February 2019
Two World Trade Center in New York City May Rise Without an Anchor Tenant
One of the final pieces of the World Trade Center puzzle may be put into place—albeit in a somewhat risky fashion. Bloomberg reports that Larry...
11 February 2019
Site of Grand Hyatt in Midtown East, New York City to be Redeveloped
The Grand Hyatt New York next to Grand Central Terminal may soon be replaced. Developers TF Cornerstone and MSD Partners, L.P. recently announced their plans...
08 February 2019
Residential High-Rise Tower Breaks Ground in Los Angeles
A $300 million 23-story residential tower has broken ground in Koreatown, a major submarket adjacent to downtown Los Angeles. Located at 2900 Wilshire Blvd., the...
05 February 2019
One Vanderbilt Reaches Supertall Territory Above Midtown East, New York City
One Vanderbilt is officially the latest skyscraper in New York City to achieve a height equivalent to “supertall” (300 meters and higher) status. Located at...
05 February 2019
Los Angeles City Council Unanimously Approves $1 Billion Hollywood Crossroads Construction
The Los Angeles Planning Commission voted on January 23rd 2019 to endorse the $1 billion Crossroads Hollywood mixed-use project. Harridge Development Group will allow current residents...
04 February 2019
Designs Revealed for The Preston in Downtown Houston
Houston-based Hines, the 61-year-old international real estate firm that’s been involved in 29 developments in downtown alone, plans to start construction next month on its...
01 February 2019
“The Hub,” a Cluster of Towers, Has Been Proposed in San Francisco
The tower proposed for Market Street and South Van Ness Avenue hasn’t even been approved, but it’s already raised the bar for how developers and...
01 February 2019
Construction Schedule Set for Houston’s Innovation Tower
Construction is scheduled to start in the third quarter of 2019 on Innovation Tower, a 48-story mixed-use tower slated for Main Street in the Texas...
31 January 2019
Crown Installation for 99 Hudson Street Underway in Jersey City
After topping out at the end of 2018, 99 Hudson Street has become the tallest skyscraper in both Jersey City and all of New Jersey,...
30 January 2019
Work On Hold at Oceanwide Plaza in Los Angeles
Construction on one of the largest projects under construction in Downtown Los Angeles, Oceanwide Plaza, has ground to a halt, according to The Los Angeles...
29 January 2019
Demolition Permits Filed for Modernist Union Carbide Building in New York City
The modernist Union Carbide building at 270 Park Avenue, due to be replaced by a new 70-story skyscraper, is now one step closer to coming...
28 January 2019
Another Tower for the Fort Lauderdale Skyline, this One 45 Stories High
The skyline in downtown Fort Lauderdale will keep reaching great heights — this time with RD Las Olas, a tower that soars 45 stories high....
28 January 2019
New York City Penthouse Sets Record for Highest-Priced Home Ever Sold in US
The sale of a New York penthouse for around $238 million has broken the record for the most expensive home ever sold in the U.S....
25 January 2019
Lincoln Yards Wins Plan Commission Approval in Chicago
A $6 billion development that would transform 55 acres (22 hectares) along the North Branch of the Chicago River is a key step closer to...
24 January 2019
Timber Frame, 21-Story Milwaukee Apartment Tower Wins Plan Commission Approval
A downtown Milwaukee apartment high-rise that would use high-grade timber, not steel, for its frame has won Plan Commission approval. The 21-story Ascent would feature...
23 January 2019
The Waldorf-Astoria’s Developer Has a New Luxury Condo Plan in Chicago
The developer that built the Waldorf Astoria hotel and condominium tower about a decade ago is dipping back into the market for ultra-luxe condos in...
22 January 2019
Residential Towers Near Completion at Plano’s Hottest Corner
Plano’s $3 billion Legacy West development has been a non-stop construction zone for almost four years. The 250-acre mixed-use project at the Dallas North Tollway...
21 January 2019
“Tower Fifth” Could Become New York City’s Second-Tallest
For decades, the New York City skyline was dominated by one building, the 1,250-foot-tall (381-meter) Empire State Building. But 17 “supertall” skyscrapers — defined as...
07 January 2019
21-Story Tower on Track to Begin Construction in Los Angeles
A proposed high-rise development featuring a hotel and condominiums is on pace to begin construction in early 2019, according to its developer, Leo Lee. The...
04 January 2019
Pre-Leasing Launched at Art Plaza Apartments in Miami
Art Plaza, currently under construction at 58 Northeast 14th Street, has opened units for pre-leasing, with move-ins anticipated in mid-2019. As Downtown Miami’s newest transit-oriented...
03 January 2019
Morningside Heights Seminary Plans 42-Story Condo Tower in New York City
The Union Theological Seminary Campus in Morningside Heights is planning to construct a 42-story tower as part of a $125 million rehab of its campus....
02 January 2019
Final Segment of 53 West 53rd Street’s Apex Installed in New York City
The final piece of the third and highest apex of Jean Nouvel’s first residential skyscraper was anchored and installed over Midtown in late December 2018....
18 December 2018
Chicago News Update: TOD Expands, Luxury Condos Come to Oakbrook, and a Hyde Park Project Tops Out.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel is looking to expand the City’s Transit Oriented Development (TOD) policy to more than 20 high-ridership bus routes along eight major corridors...
13 December 2018
Snøhetta Updates Proposal for Philip Johnson's AT&T Building
Snøhetta has revealed an updated proposal for the overhaul of Philip Johnson's AT&T Building, after a major backlash against its initial scheme resulted in the...
12 December 2018
BMO Harris Bank to Occupy New Chicago Union Station Tower
BMO Harris Bank will consolidate its Chicago offices in 2022 at a new 50-story tower next to Union Station, the bank announced on 10 December...
10 December 2018
Sky-high Uptown Dallas land sales signal a new round of high-rise building
Dallas-Fort Worth development activity is winding down. After several years of booming construction all over the region, commercial building starts are lower by about a...
07 December 2018
Financing Hurdle Overcome for The Couture, Milwaukee
Recently, Rick Barrett of Barrett Lo Visionary Development appeared before the Milwaukee County Board’s Economic and Community Development Committee, the same committee that once discussed...
05 December 2018
New Images of the 272-meter NEMA Chicago Revealed
After quietly breaking ground nearly two years ago, the 893-foot (272-meter) apartment tower known as NEMA Chicago has grown to dominate downtown’s southern skyline. The...
05 December 2018
Queens Plaza Park Begins Rising At 27-29 Queens Plaza North
Located in Long Island City at 27-29 Queens Plaza North, Queens Plaza Park will soon be one of the tallest skyscrapers in both Queens and...
04 December 2018
There’s a new plan to stop Millennium Tower sinking
All sides in the Millennium Tower debacle appear to be nearing an agreement on a $100 million-plus fix to stop the 58-story high-rise from sinking...
30 November 2018
Salesforce to add 1,000 jobs in new Chicago riverfront skyscraper
Salesforce on Friday, November 30, 2018 will announce plans to anchor a new riverfront skyscraper and add at least 1,000 jobs to its Chicago workforce...
30 November 2018
Lower skyscrapers, wider parks in revised Lincoln Yards proposal
Developer Sterling Bay will present revised plans for its $5 billion-plus Lincoln Yards mixed-use development in a public meeting on Nov. 29, 2018. Shorter skyscrapers —...
29 November 2018
A 392-Unit Luxury High-Rise is Being Introduced to the Market in San Francisco
The latest luxury high-rise to join the ranks of recently announced and opened residences, which include The Harrison, 181 Fremont, The Avery and One Steuart...
28 November 2018
Mixed-Use Development Set for Newport, Kentucky, Near Cincinnati
Real-estate investment firm Corporex is developing an $800-million-to-$1-billion mixed-use project in Newport, Kentucky. Construction is to begin in 2019. The 35-acre (14-hectare) project, which will overlook...
15 November 2018
Atlanta’s Colony Square receives a $278.4 cash boost while controversial $5 billion megadevelopment receives City Council Approval
At the same time as Colony Square, a previous multi-tower development, receives a $278.4 million cash infusion from Holiday Fenoglio Fowler, a long-delayed megadevelopment project...
14 November 2018
Sugar-Cane-Inspired Tower to Rise 41 Stories in Honolulu
For Studio Gang’s first major project on the Hawaiian islands, principal Jeanne Gang devised a 41-story mixed-use tower inspired by the island’s native red sugar...
14 November 2018
New York City’s Plans for Amazon HQ2 Swing Into Action
Amazon has officially revealed its plan to develop a headquarters location along the East River banks of Long Island City, in New York City’s Queens...
13 November 2018
270 Park Avenue’s Replacement Will Rise 1,400 Feet in Midtown East, Manhattan
The second supertall to result from the Midtown East rezoning is moving forward, with JPMorgan Chase filing a text amendment with City Planning for a...
08 November 2018
81 Room JW Marriott Charlotte Hotel Announced for 2021
White Lodging will build the 21-story, 381-room JW Marriott Charlotte in partnership with Crescent Communities, the real estate company responsible for developing Ally Charlotte Center,...
07 November 2018
Works to Begin on High-Rise Complex in Los Angeles’ Bunker Hill Sector
Since Related Companies first got the contract in 2004 to build the massive Grand Avenue project, there’s been a housing boom and bust, a financial...
06 November 2018
First Tenants Move into Dallas’ Union Complex
The first office tenants have moved into the more than $300 million Union complex, Uptown Dallas’ newest real estate project, on Field Street just north...
02 November 2018
New Details Emerge for 53-Story Los Angeles Project
Arquitectonica and JMF Development Co. are moving forward with their plans to build a 53-story tower adjacent to Pershing Square in Downtown Los Angeles. The City...
01 November 2018
Boston University Announces a New Cantilevered Data Sciences Building
Boston University has announced a new Data Sciences Building on their main Charles River campus, with a striking design: a ziggurat-shaped tower with multiple cantilevers....
09 April 2018
Fire at New York City’s Trump Tower Kills One
A fire broke out at Trump Tower on April 7, leaving one man dead and six firefighters injured, the New York City Fire Department said....
06 April 2018
New Rendering Revealed for Queens Residential Tower in New York City
A new rendering has surfaced for the massive residential tower taking shape at 29-55 Northern Boulevard, adjacent to Long Island City’s historic Clock Tower, revealing...
05 April 2018
Loggia-Wrapped New York City Condo Tower Starts to Rise
The Adjaye Associates-designed 130 William, the firm’s first skyscraper in New York, is on the rise. AN has spotted crews working above grade, and a...
04 April 2018
Miami’s One Brickell City Centre Resubmitted to FAA
Swire Properties has once again filed plans with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to build a supertall tower at Brickell City Centre in Miami. According...
03 April 2018
Official Renderings Revealed for New Office Tower at 3 West 29th Street in New York City
When the old Bancroft Bank Building met the wrecking ball a few years ago, the site, at 3 West 29th Street, was tentatively planned to...
02 April 2018
New York City’s 1710 Broadway Site Up for Sale
Gary Barnett’s Extell Development Company is selling off a parcel on West 54th Street, that is zoned for residential condominiums, Yoron Cohen of Colliers International,...
30 March 2018
Renderings Revealed for ALTA LIC Tower in New York City
New renderings have been released for 29-22 Northern Boulevard, officially dubbed ALTA LIC, in Long Island City, Queens. The 43-story building stands across the street...
29 March 2018
Developers Tweak Plans for Tallest Tower in Chicago’s Fulton Market
A pair of developers hoping to build the tallest tower in the Fulton Market District of Chicago have cut down their plan by eight floors...
28 March 2018
Façade Installation Begins for 1050 Sixth Avenue in New York
The Gene Kaufman-designed-1050 Sixth Avenue, dubbed ML House, is making significant progress in the heart of Midtown Manhattan. In a break from the architect’s norm,...
27 March 2018
First Renderings Revealed for Cumulus Tower in LA
A major project planned for a West Adams property has been mostly a mystery since it was first proposed in 2015. Now, we’re getting our...
26 March 2018
Portland’s Three Finalists for Post Office Redevelopment Don’t Include Twin Skyscrapers
An eye-catching proposal for a pair of interlinked skyscrapers that would have reshaped Portland’s skyline won’t be realized after all. While renderings of the twin...
23 March 2018
Apartment Tower is Ready to Rise in Chicago’s Hyde Park
A 26-story apartment tower is ready to break ground in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood after receiving its first construction permit on March 19. The South...
22 March 2018
Automaker May Buy Detroit’s Abandoned Michigan Central Station
Ford Motor Co. is in discussions to purchase the dilapidated Michigan Central Station in Detroit’s Corktown neighborhood just outside of downtown, Crain’s has learned from...
20 March 2018
Capital Plaza Tower Demolished in Frankfort
The Capital Plaza Office Tower in Frankfort, Ky., disappeared on March 18 into a cloud of dust. There were a few booms of dynamite and...
19 March 2018
Demolition Begins for 50 West 66th Street in New York City
Demolition has begun on the final building left at 50 West 66th Street, where Extell will soon be adding yet another punctuation mark to the...
02 January 2018
Architecture Firm Signs Lease in Upcoming Downtown Brooklyn Tower
JEMB Realty Corporation (JEMB), a real estate development, investment, and management organization headquartered in New York City, has announced that world renowned architecture firm, FXFOWLE,...
21 March 2023
HQ Development Plans Altered for Dallas Company
Earlier in March 2023, CBRE made a statement saying that it would move its headquarters in Dallas from 2100 McKinney Ave to a new building...
17 March 2023
Office Block with Unconventional Exterior Rises in Los Angeles
Hayden Tract, a former manufacturing hub in Culver City, California has been undergoing a transformation over the past four decades with buildings ideated by tech...
16 March 2023
Shelter-in-Place Order Lifted after Storm Causes Glass Panes to Fall from San Francisco Skyscraper
An order to shelter in place and evacuate the area surrounding a skyscraper in San Franciso has been lifted. The order was initially put in...
15 March 2023
An Upper East Side Hotel Fire is Under Investigation
A fire that broke up in a hotel on Manhattan's Upper East Side on 15 March, 2023, is under investigation by the FBI to determine...
14 March 2023
Renderings for What Could be the Tallest Building in Bayonne Revealed
Construction has been approved for the first phase of NY Vue, a residential tower that could be the city's tallest. The 26-story, 155,000-square-foot (14,399-square-meter) site...
07 March 2023
Construction Work Paused on Tech Giant's Arlington HQ
Construction has been paused on the Amazon HQ2 campus in Arlington, Virginia the company confirmed to News4 on Friday, 3 March, 2023. Not all phases...
02 March 2023
Preparations for Shake Table Testing of 10-Story Mass Timber Building Underway
Shake table testing preparations are underway for a 10-story mass timber building by the project team at [email protected] These will take place over the course...
27 February 2023
Graveyard in Columbus to be Excavated before High-Rise Construction
A graveyard is being excavated in anticipation of the erection of a new skyscraper with 31 stories that will include a hotel and parking garage....
23 February 2023
Chicago Condominium Property Primed for Reconversion
A 28-story Edgewater high-rise has been listed for sale in Chicago, looking to attract investors that transform condo buildings into apartments. The brokerage group, Kiser...
15 February 2023
New Mass Timber Building in Milwaukee Could Rise 28 Stories
A revised version of The Edison apartment tower in Milwaukee could rise 28 stories at a riverfront site, potentially rising higher than the 25-story Ascent...
14 February 2023
Mixed-Use Building Rises Quickly In Chicago
North Wells Capital’s 15-story mixed-use tower at 311 W Huron Street in River North is quickly rising. The tower will stand 226 feet tall (68.8...
01 February 2023
Austin Design Commission Asks for Plan Revisions on 80-Story Supertall
HKS and developer Wilson Capital revealed plans in December 2022 for the Wilson Tower, an 80-story high-rise in Austin that plans to benefit from a...
31 January 2023
Residential High-Rise Planned for Seabrook
A mixed-use development may soon be constructed along NASA Parkway in Seabrook. Houston-based Highland Resources plans to build apartments and more than 8,000 square feet...
25 January 2023
Multiple Hospitalized and One Fatality in Kenwood High-Rise Fire in Chicago
A high-rise fire in Kenwood, Chicago on Wednesday, 25 January, 2023 killed one resident and sent eight others to the hospital. The building has many...
13 January 2023
Residential Project Near South Shore Cultural Center Proposed in Chicago
A high-rise apartment building is being proposed for a vacant lot near the South Shore Cultural Center in Chicago. Described as an equitable transit-oriented development...
12 January 2023
Seven-Terraced Office Tower Proposed in New York City
A skyscraper that could reach 1,350 feet (411 meters) with 51 office floors and seven terraces has been proposed in New York City. The anchor...
05 January 2023
A Pair of Textured, Stepped Towers are Added to the Brooklyn Waterfront
A new waterfront development in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York—Eagle + West—is sited where Newtown Creek funnels into the East River. The complex's two towers, though...
04 January 2023
Transformation of Octagonal San Antonio Building to Begin in 2024
The historic 30-story Tower-Life Building will undergo a multi-million dollar transformation starting in 2024. The eight-sided building features a distinctive green-glazed roof. The building had...
03 January 2023
Developers Pitch Substantial Residential Conversions in Chicago
Many Chicago developers are collectively proposing more than US$1.2 billion-worth of projects to renovate a suite of office buildings on and near LaSalle Street into...
27 December 2022
Excavation Underway For Hotel And Observation Tower in Midtown, New York City
740 8th Avenue is a planned 1,067-foot (325.1-meter) hotel and observation tower in Midtown, Manhattan. The 52-story supertall was designed by ODA along with SLCE...
23 December 2022
Trading Firms Adds Two Floors to Chicago Office
A proprietary trading firm is adding to its office footprint in Chicago's Loop, bucking the post-pandemic trend of releasing downtown space back onto the market. ...
19 December 2022
"15-Minute City" Master Plan is Approved in Queens
A walkable master plan, designed as a "15-minute city", for a community in Queens dubbed Innovation QNS will offer an efficient way for residents to...
16 December 2022
Los Angeles Mandates All New Buildings Must be All-Electric
Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved an ordinance on 7 December requiring that all new buildings within city limits be constructed all-electric. With this vote,...
12 December 2022
18-Story University Building Completed in Boston
The newly completed 93-meter-tall Center for Computing & Data Sciences at Boston University (BU) is a new addition to the Boston area skyline. The US$305...
08 December 2022
Approval Won for 30-Story Rental Building in Fort Lauderdale
A proposed 30-story apartment development near downtown Fort Lauderdale was granted approval despite some design features that differ from city standards. The city's downtown master...
08 December 2022
Luxury Building with 86 Units Proposed in Aventura
Conditional approval has been granted for Tal Aventura, a luxury living residential complex in Aventura Florida as of October 3, 2022. General contractors hope to...
02 December 2022
Proposal Announced for Mixed-Use Neighborhood In Atlantic City
Connected through two major, ongoing developments in Philadelphia, Post Brothers and Bart Blatstein are seeking to formally partner on a job in Atlantic City that...
02 December 2022
Construction Completed at 20-Story Residential Building In Downtown Brooklyn, New York City
Work has reached completion on 22 Chapel Street, a 20-story residential building in Downtown Brooklyn. Designed by CetraRuddy and developed by Delshah Capital and OTL...
02 December 2022
San Jose Approves High-Rise To Replace Historic Restaurant
A high-rise tower, offering hundreds of residences, is slated to rise in downtown San Jose on a less than one-acre (0.4-hectare) plot, following approval from...
01 December 2022
New Look Revealed for Fort Worth High-Rise Apartments
The latest renderings of a proposed 12-story apartment building in downtown Fort Worth show an updated look for the building's exterior. Fort Worth's design review...
01 December 2022
Commercial Skyscraper Completes Construction In Downtown Brooklyn
Construction is complete on One Willoughby Square, a 35-story commercial skyscraper in Downtown Brooklyn. Designed by FXCollaborative and developed by JEMB Realty, the 552-foot-tall (168.3-meter-tall)...
30 November 2022
Condominium Project Offering 600 Units Planned for Miami Site
A new condiminium project is being planned by Aria Development Group and Merrimac Ventures after acquiring a redevelopment site for US$17.5 million. The joint venture...
29 November 2022
Ann Arbor Streets Closing to Reconfigure Tower Crane at High-Rise under Construction
New street closures will affect Ann Arbor as construction carries forward on a 13-story high-rise that is expected to cater to University of Michigan students...
29 November 2022
Chicago Apartment Building Sells for US$10.5 million
A historic Harry-Weese designed 14-story building in Streeterville, Chicago has been sold for US$10.5 million from Brad Management to Chicago-based Altitude Capital Partners. Built in...
25 November 2022
Under-Construction University Hospital Tower Was Not Found to Have Sunk Due to Structural Damage
Earlier in the week of Nov 21st, 2022, Ohio State University temporarily stopped construction on part of its new inpatient hospital tower after cracks were...
23 November 2022
Major University Unveils a Transparent Design for Research Building Named After Henrietta Lacks
The Henrietta Lacks Research Building, named as a part of the legacy of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman from Baltimore County whose cell samples have...
22 November 2022
Seattle Apartment Building Receives Investment from Developer
Skanska starts work in December 2022 on a 31-story apartment building it’s developing in the hip Belltown neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Dubbed “Kaye,” the building will...
21 November 2022
Construction Begins on First Two High-Rises of a Large Mixed-Use Development in Atlanta
On 17 November 2022, Centennial Yards Company announced that the groundbreaking of Centennial Yards, one of the largest city-center developments in the US, had taken...
17 November 2022
Brooklyn Crossing Completes Construction in New York City
Construction has reached completion on Brooklyn Crossing, a 51-story residential skyscraper at 18 Sixth Avenue in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn and the tallest building in the 22-acre...
17 November 2022
Denver Mass Timber Project will Break Ground in 2023
What could be Denver's tallest mass timber building is set to break ground in July 2023. Situated in the River North (RiNo) Arts District, the...
16 November 2022
Residents Evacuated from Miami Beach Tower Cleared for Return
A contractor has deemed the 164-unit Port 6969 Collins Avenue at 6969 Collins Avenue safe for occupancy after the shorting or reinforcement of beams in the...
15 November 2022
Austin Announces Supertall Tower
Austin-based real estate development firm Wilson Capital announced that its redevelopment of the Avenue Lofts site will be significantly larger than previously reported. The multifamily...
11 November 2022
Excavation Begins At 300 East 83rd Street On Manhattan’s Upper East Side in New York City
Excavation is in progress at 300 East 83rd Street, the site of a 22-story residential building in the Yorkville section of the Upper East Side. Designed...
09 November 2022
New York Penthouse Sells for US$72 Million
A penthouse on Manhattan's Billionaire's Row at 220 Central Park South has sold for US$72 million, records show. The full-floor unit is just over 5,000 square...
08 November 2022
38 Injured after Fire Breaks Out in NYC High-Rise
Injuries were sustained after a fire broke out in Midtown, New York City at a high-rise on 5 November, 2022. Dozens of people were injured...
08 November 2022
Judge Rules Against Group Suing to Stop Presidential Center in Chicago
The long-waged fight by the group Protect Our Parks to halt construction of former President Barack Obama’s Jackson Park museum and campus has reached the...
04 November 2022
Building Has Topping Off Ceremony in Portland, Maine
The apartment building at 201 Federal Street, in downtown Portland and a block away from City Hall, had its “topping off” ceremony – the last...
02 November 2022
Mass Timber Luxury Residential Development Proposed for Spokane
atelierjones led an integrated design team for the proposal of a 178,000-square-foot (16,536-square-meter) mass timber housing project in Spokane, Washington that would deliver both market...
01 November 2022
Miami Beach Condo Evacuated Due to Structural Concerns
The city of Miami Beach ordered residents of a 164-unit condo tower to evacuate the building Thursday, 27 October, 2022 after engineers found significant damage...
31 October 2022
Downtown Jersey City Approves 60-Story Building and Redevelopment Plan
The transformation of a piece of Downtown Jersey City progress significantly the week of 20 October, 2022. The Jersey City City Council officially began the...
31 October 2022
Office Building Structurally Tops Out in Dallas
CTBUH has just received confirmation that the 27-story No. 14 Harwood has recently structurally topped out. Located in Dallas, Texas, the design for the project...
28 October 2022
Residential 36-Story High-Rise Gets City Council Approval in Chicago.
A US$166 million, 35-story residential tower is coming to Greektown after getting City Council approval Wednesday. The high-rise at 301 S. Green St. will replace a...
25 October 2022
Office Tower in Hudson Yards Development Officially Opens in New York City
Foster + Partners has completed 50 Hudson Yards in New York City as part of the Hudson Yards major development in Midtown Manhattan. The 981-foot-tall (299...
25 October 2022
New 43-Story Tower Breaks Ground in Booming Austin District
Construction has begun on a a 43-story apartment tower in the Rainey Street area in downtown Austin, which has recently experienced a surge in development....
24 October 2022
Trustee Gives US$121 Million to Expand University's Biomedical Research Center
Northwestern University Trustee Kimberly K. Querrey (’22, ’23 P) and the Louis Simpson Trust have made a new US$121 million gift to Northwestern to advance...
21 October 2022
New Insurance Headquarters Building Coming to Downtown Omaha's Skyline
Mutual of Omaha’s new headquarters will be adding a proposed 44-story skyscraper in the heart of downtown. The now-completed construction plans for the US$600 million...
20 October 2022
New York City Announces US$1.6 Billion Life Sciences Campus
Plans have been announced for a US$1.6 billion life sciences campus to be located on the east side of Manhattan and administered in partnership with...
19 October 2022
Approval Sought on 28-Story Mixed-Use Tower in San Antonio
The push to revitalize downtown San Antonio with projects like Civic Park in progress continues as plans for a 28-story residential tower are revealed next...
18 October 2022
Distressed Loop Building set for Apartment Conversion in Chicago
N.Y.-based Intersection Realty Group Intersection paid US$19.3 million last month for a 25-story office building at 65 East Wacker Place, according to Cook County property...
17 October 2022
Another Historic Tacoma Building is Renovating to Rentals
Owners of a historic office building, originally known as the Sandberg-Schoenfeld building that was completed in 1908 and has since been called DaVita Building, will...
14 October 2022
Solar Cell Façade is Proposed for Miami Residential High-Rise
Miami-based real estate development firm Ytech has announced The Residences at 1428 Brickell, a high-rise luxury condominium development that integrates photovoltaic glazing within the building’s...
14 October 2022
Beachside Residential High-Rise Evacuated for Safety in South Carolina
A 21-story high-rise condominium building, the Renaissance Tower, has been deemed unsafe by Horry County officials as of Friday, 7 October, 2022 leaving residents without...
13 October 2022
New Renderings For Residential Tower in Oakland Revealed
Pre-application documents were submitted by The CIM Group for a 46-story residential tower at 325 22nd Street, named Town Tower, in Downtown Oakland. The project's...
12 October 2022
Excavation Begins For 325-Meter Development in New York City
Excavation and pilings have begun at 740 Eighth Avenue, the site of a 52-story, 1,067-foot-tall (325-meter-tall) hotel and observation tower in Midtown, Manhattan offering 776,000...
11 October 2022
Multifamily Project Receives Funding in Los Angeles
A residential high-rise and four-story luxury hotel has just received development funding in downtown Woodlands Hills, Los Angeles. Existing currently on the site are a...
10 October 2022
Landmark Building in Chicago is Up for Sale
The developer that transformed the landmark 17-story Chicago Motor Club building into a Hampton Inn is looking to sell. Chicago-based Murphy Development Group has hired...
07 October 2022
Over 80-Year-Old Tower in Austin is Getting First Major Renovation
On Wednesday, 5 October 2022, the University of Texas-Austin’s Board of Regents announced plans to provide a USD$26 million lead investment that will go toward...
06 October 2022
Excavation And Pilings Underway at Residential Skyscraper in Queens, New York City
Below-grade work is underway at 27-48 Jackson Avenue, the site of a 69-story residential skyscraper in the Court Square district of Long Island City, Queens....
05 October 2022
Pharmaceutical Company Expanding, Moving HQ to Fulton Market, Chicago
A drug maker that moved its research division from California to Chicago early in the COVID-19 pandemic is continuing to invest in its office and...
04 October 2022
Luxury Hotel Brand Coming to South Station Tower in Boston
The residences being built at South Station Tower are within walking distance of Boston public transit system the T. Famed hotelier Ritz-Carlton will be the...
04 October 2022
New Renderings Revealed for Supertall Slated for San Francisco
New renderings of 50 Main Street have been revealed for the Foster + Partners-designed project, permitting a glimpse of one of the tallest proposals for...
03 October 2022
26 Story Building in Brooklyn has Topped Out
A 26-story residential building on 69 Adams street in Brooklyn has hit a construction milestone and structurally topped out. Located in the DUMBO neighborhood, the...
30 September 2022
Hurricane Ian in Fort Myers Traps Residents on 22nd Floor
Hurricane Ian landed in Fort Myers, Florida in the United States on 28 September, 2022 as a Category 4 hurricane. Terry Mazany, who moved to...
29 September 2022
Investment Firm Signs 32,281-Square-Meter Lease at Madison-Avenue Development in New York City
SL Green Realty Corp an office landlord has announced that investment management firm Franklin Templeton has signed a 15-year, 347,474 square foot (32,281 square meter)...
28 September 2022
Site of Upcoming 15-Story Building in Harlem to Host Apartments, Not Offices in New York City
Instead of an office building, developer Extell will construct a large apartment tower on the site of the former Pathmark supermarket on East 125th Street,...
27 September 2022
Cosmeceuticals Company Relocates Headquarters from California to Houston
The Howard Hughes Corporation has announced that Obagi Cosmeceuticals LLC is relocating its corporate headquarters from California to The Woodlands®, Texas, adding to the now...
27 September 2022
Condominium Sells for US$20.5 million in Chicago
A condominium at the St. Regis tower sold Wednesday for a little more than US$20.56 million, the highest price anyone has paid for a Chicago-area...
26 September 2022
First Look Offered for Fulton Market Site in Chicago
Chicago developer Fred Latsko unveiled a rendering of the apartment tower on tap to accompany the nation’s second Guinness brewery planned for Fulton Market. The...
23 September 2022
Developers Announce the Closing of a US$176 Million Construction Loan for Salt Lake City Project
A US$176.2 million construction loan was secured for the development of Astra Tower, a 39-story, 377-unit residential project located in a qualified opportunity zone in Downtown...
21 September 2022
Potential $240 Million Land Sale Could Clear The Way For 80-Story Condo Tower In Miami
Miami’s oldest Presbyterian church has been given clearance to move forward with the US$240 million sale of 2.2 acres (0.89 hectares) of land at 609...
21 September 2022
Residential Building Proposed to Replace 60-Meter Hotel in Chicago
CTBUH has just received confirmation that a 143-meter residential building, 1234 West Randolph, located in Chicago has been proposed to replace a 60-meter hotel. The...
19 September 2022
Coworking Company to Open in Chicago Uptown Apartment Project
The Chicago developer turning Uptown's landmark Bridgeview Bank building into apartments has enlisted WeWork to operate co-working space on the property's lower floors, the shared-office...
16 September 2022
Vote Delayed for Landmark Status of Two Chicago Buildings
The Commission on Chicago Landmarks delayed a vote on the preliminary landmark designation of the Century and Consumers Buildings during its recent monthly meeting on...
15 September 2022
Two Commercial Office Buildings Announced in Austin
One Ladybird Lake and 901 South Congress are two new office buildings coming to Austin. One Ladybird Lake, a joint venture partnership with Christopher Investment...
14 September 2022
Changes to Charlotte Complex Include Increased Height
A Chicago developer said Tuesday, 13 September 2022, that it has done away with plans for a third tower at its US$750 million project on...
14 September 2022
Design Revealed for Cylindrical Mixed-Use Building in Fort Lauderdale
New York-based architecture and design studio ODA reveals the design of its newest project in South Florida, located in the Rio Vista neighborhood of Fort...
12 September 2022
Nashville Block Tower Structurally Tops Out
CTBUH has just received confirmation that a 34-story building, located in Nashville, Tennesee in the United States has structurally topped out. The project is being...
09 September 2022
BART Board Approves TOD of Residential Towers in Oakland
The BART Board of Directors has voted to approve plans for the Lake Merritt Transit-Oriented Development that includes two towers in Downtown Oakland. The approval...
08 September 2022
Residential Construction Begins Atop Garage in Grand Rapids
CTBUH has just received confirmation that a 22-story building, located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, US, has begun construction. The project consists of 16 floors built...
06 September 2022
Further Details about Chicago Football Team's Vision for Arlington Heights Stadium Released
The Chicago Bears have opted not to seek out public funding for a new stadium in Arlington Heights, but will pursue taxpayer support in completing...
02 September 2022
Health and Human Services Headquarters Construction Begins in Raleigh
Workers have begun demolishing a former book and mail warehouse in West Raleigh to make way for a new headquarters for the state Department of...
01 September 2022
Tower in Downtown San Jose Pauses After Unexpected Archaeological Find
Construction on a tower in downtown San Jose has been halted after a discovery that led to an archaeological assessment of the project site and...
31 August 2022
Developers Sign Utilities Deal For Luxury 55-Story High Rise in Miami
A utility deal for water and sewer connections has been signed with the City of Miami for 710 Edge, a 55-story ultra-luxury residential high-rise planned...
30 August 2022
Developer Lands US$200M to Build a 40-Story Residential Tower in New York City
Rockefeller Group and Park Tower Group have secured a US$200 million construction loan to build a 40-story residential tower at 16 Dupont Street as part...
29 August 2022
A Proposed Hollywood Office Complex Gets Closer to Approval in Los Angeles
A proposed Hollywood office complex, Sunset + Wilcox, would replace a Staples office supply store and similar commercial buildings at 6450 Sunset Boulevard. The proposed...
26 August 2022
Extensive Renovation to Convert Offices to Luxury Apartments in Downtown Houston
An iconic component of the Downtown Houston skyline is set to undergo a US$50 million renovation. The developer, Cameron Management, is planning to convert the...
26 August 2022
25-Story Residential Building in Chicago is Up for Sale
John Buck, the Chicago-based development firm has hired Jones Lang LaSalle to sell 3Eleven, a 25-story building with 245 apartments at 311 W. Illinois St....
25 August 2022
Boston Mixed-Use Building Built to Passive House Standards
Winthrop Center, a new 691-foot-tall (210.5-meter-tall) mixed-use tower in Boston was built to Passive House standards. The structure’s 812,000 square feet (75,437 square meters) of...
24 August 2022
Student Housing Tower Opens Ahead of Schedule in Austin
Waterloo Tower, the tallest new student-housing tower is now open. The building was delivered ahead of schedule and is already fully leased, according to a...
23 August 2022
Cincinnati's Office-and-Retail Tower Sells for US$18 Million
After months of delays, Downtown's landmark Carew Tower has been sold. Greg Power, who owns the iconic 49-story office-and-retail tower at 441 Vine St., first...
23 August 2022
Construction Tops Out on 28-Story Residential Building in New York City
Construction has topped out on 249 East 62nd Street, a 28-story residential tower on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Designed by INC Architecture & Design with...
22 August 2022
Two Towers are Proposed for Downtown Los Angeles
Set to be built on a site between Hill Street and California Plaza in Downtown Los Angeles, a proposed development called Angels Landing will have...
18 August 2022
New Apartment Tower is Proposed for North Miami Beach
Miami-based developer BH Group is planning to build a 30-story apartment tower, that will have 400 units at 2261 Northeast 164th Street. The purchased the...
17 August 2022
Office Tower in San Antonio will Become Residential with some Affordable Housing
The historic 1929 Tower Life Building that stands at 123.1 meters (404 ft) has plans to retrofit its office spaces for condominiums and apartments, at...
16 August 2022
Construction Begins on New Affordable Housing Tower in New Rochelle
Simone Development Companies and Stagg Group have begun construction on West View Apartments, a 186-unit affordable housing development that marks Phase 2 of a mixed-use...
15 August 2022
Residents in Limbo After Evacuated Over Safety Concerns in Houston High-Rise
The City of Houston has pulled the occupancy permit of The Royalton at River Oaks condos where hundreds of residents had to be evacuated on...
15 August 2022
New Renderings for a Proposed Downtown Oakland Tower
New renderings for a residential design have been published for the skyscraper redevelopment of 1431 Franklin Street in Downtown Oakland. The developer is applying for...
12 August 2022
18 Story Building is Under Construction in Chicago
CTBUH has just received confirmation that the 18-story building, located at 210 North Aberdeen Street in Chicago has had a status change. The project designed...
11 August 2022
Plans are Revealed for a Tall Timber Building in Chicago
Noted Chicago developer Sterling Bay is planning a nine-story, 130-unit apartment building at 2100 N Southport Avenue in the Lincoln Park neighborhood. The techniques utilized...
11 August 2022
Twin Tower Condo Project has Groundbreaking in Honolulu
On 8 August 2022, a 44-story, 972 unit twin tower project had a groundbreaking ceremony at the three and a half acre site in the...
10 August 2022
Demolition Permits Filed to Clear Site for New San Francisco Tower
Plans for a new development in the Bay Area outside of San Francisco have passed a new milestone. Demolition permits have been filed to remove...
09 August 2022
New Building Height is Filed for New York City Tower
On 5 August, 2022, developer Boston Properties filed new plans for the building at 343 Madison Avenue. The building's new height is listed at 237.7...
09 August 2022
New Tower is Proposed for Downtown Los Angeles
At 700 South Flower Street in downtown Los Angeles, the Bloc is a proposal for a 53-story tower at a heigh of 216.4 meters (710...
08 August 2022
Design Team Selected to Lead Port Authority Bus Terminal Replacement in NYC
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has revealed the that Foster + Partners and the Chicago-headquartered design and engineering firm, Epstein will...
05 August 2022
Financial Firm will Occupy other Miami Towers Prior to Building Their Own
Citadel, a hedge fund firm headed by Ken Griffin, is in the process of completing deals for new office space as it prepares to expand...
04 August 2022
Chicago Loop Office Tower Put for Sale with Hopes to be Bought by Tech Giant
Developer John Buck is putting his LaSalle Street office tower up for sale, testing whether investors will clamor to own property on the corridor now...
03 August 2022
Tower in Pittsburgh May be Converted into Luxury Hotel
Gulf Tower, a 44-story skyscraper that opened 90 years ago, could be converted into a luxury hotel and condominiums or apartments under a plan being...
02 August 2022
41-Story Residential Tower Tops Off in Chicago
The Reed, a 41-story, 440-unit residential tower at 234 W. Polk, has officially topped off at 136.2 meters (447 ft.). Perched along the Chicago River,...
01 August 2022
25-Story Hotel and Arts Tower Proposed in Harlem, NYC
According to new plans that appeared on a city website the week of July 27, 2022, a 25 story tower containing a 305-room hotel could...
29 July 2022
Mixed-Use Building in Chicago Tops Out
The 160 N. Elizabeth Street building has reached its full height of 89.4 meters (293 feet) and 27 floors in July 2022. This mixed-use project...
28 July 2022
Global Real Estate Firm Acquires New Office Building in Houston
Hines, the global real estate firm, today announced that Hines Global Income Trust (“HGIT”) has acquired 200 Park Place for $145 million. As one of...
27 July 2022
Large Tech Company Announces Plan to Buy Chicago’s Thomson Center
In a surprise deal that gives new life to an iconic but aging downtown office building, Google plans to buy the James R. Thompson Center...
26 July 2022
48-Story Hotel in Times Square is Completed and Opened
Construction is complete and occupancy has begun at the RIU Plaza Hotel, a 48-story skyscraper at 145 West 47th Street in Times Square. Designed by...
22 July 2022
Mexico-Based JV Developers Plans 22 Story Apartment Tower in Miami
Menesse International bought the development site in Miami's financial district of Brickell at 143 Southwest Ninth Street from an affiliate of Miami-based Habitat Group. The...
22 July 2022
High-Rise in Milwaukee Takes Title of World’s Tallest Mass Timber Hybrid
On July 20, 2022 New Land Enterprises welcomed the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) and the Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional...
21 July 2022
Houston's Parkside Residences at Discovery Green is Completed
CTBUH has just recieved confirmation that 43-story Parkside Residencies at Discovery Green in Houston, Texas has reached CTBUH's base-level criteria for completion. Several units are...
20 July 2022
Three-Year-Old Boy Dies After Fall From Chicago Building
Officials say that a three-year-old boy has died after he fell more than 15 stories from a window of an Uptown residence on the evening...
20 July 2022
Global Architecture Firm Opens New Office in Denver
Global architecture firm Goettsch Partners (GP) has opened a new office in Denver, Colorado. As of July 1 2022, the firm has taken space in...
19 July 2022
Demolition Begins for 741 N Wells Street in Chicago
Following up on a demolition permit article, partial site clearing has begun for a 21-story mixed-use tower at 741 N Wells Street in River North....
19 July 2022
Residential Building in Miami Beach Anticipated to Complete in 2024
Japan-based Kengo Kuma and Associates has unveiled the design for what will become the firm’s first residential tower in the United States. The 18-story building,...
18 July 2022
New Tenant for Redeveloped Marshall Field Building in Chicago
Parsippany, New Jersey-based Ferrero North America announced they will open a 45,000-square-foot (4,180-square-meter) facility next year in the landmark Marshall Field building at 24 E....
15 July 2022
Mixed-Use 425 Grand Concourse Completes Construction in the Bronx, New York
The 86.9-meter, 26-story mixed-use building in Mott Haven, Bronx in New York City has completed construction. Designed by Dattner Architects and developed by Trinity Financial...
13 July 2022
Construction Breaks Ground at 28-Story Residential Building in New York City
Excavation has begun at 126 East 57th Street, site of a 28-story residential tower on Billionaires’ Row in Midtown East, Manhattan. Designed by ODA Architecture...
12 July 2022
Developers Celebrate the Grand Opening of Residential Building in Brooklyn
Developers recently celebrated the grand opening of Magnolia DUMBO, a 21-story residential building at 160 Front Street in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Designed by Morris Adjmi Architects...
12 July 2022
Miami Office Tower Tops Out at 55 Stories
In Miami, construction of OKO Group and Cain International’s 830 Brickell office tower is nearing completion. The building’s general contractor, Civic Construction, recently topped off...
11 July 2022
NYC Tower Completion Date Updates and New Tenants
The 58-story commercial tower developed by Brookfield Properties is slated for completion in 2023 and recently confirmed that the international law firm Clifford Chance has...
08 July 2022
High-Rise Building Condemned After Fire in Revere
Residents of the Water's Edge Apartments at 370 Ocean Ave. learned on 6 July 2022 that the 16-story building has been condemned two weeks after...
07 July 2022
Developer of Chicago Office Towers Expands into Residential
A developer that has built three trophy office towers near the Chicago River in recent years is planning its first apartment project in the city,...
06 July 2022
Progress Continues on Mandarin Oriental Residencies in Manhattan
Work is continuing to progress on the Mandarin Oriental Residences Fifth Avenue, a 29-story building at 685 Fifth Avenue in Midtown and the first east...
05 July 2022
St. Louis Tower Passes Key Milestone Toward Final Approval
A St. Louis board approved a series of variances for a new 30-story apartment tower in the Central West End, bringing the US$135 million project...
01 July 2022
Miami Tower Featured in Music Video Sold
Oak Row Equities announced that it has closed on the acquisition of a 2.1-acre (0.8-hectare) site on one of the last remaining undeveloped city blocks...
30 June 2022
Luxury Condominium Development Breaks Ground in Downtown St. Petersburg
Florida-based real estate development and investment firm Kolter Urban has broken ground on Art House, a 42-story luxury condominium development located at 200 Central Avenue...
28 June 2022
Demolition, Excavation Continue For Potential Supertall At 570 Fifth Avenue In Midtown, New York City
Demolition is progressing at 570 Fifth Avenue, the site of a potential supertall skyscraper in Midtown, Manhattan. Developed by Extell, the tower could reach an...
27 June 2022
Mixed-Use Tower Proposed in Fort Lauderdale
Plans for a new 48-story mixed-use tower named 11 Andrews have been submitted to Fort Lauderdale’s Design Review Committee (DRC) for review. The project is...
24 June 2022
Brutalist Building Converted into "Passive House" Hotel
Architecture studio Becker + Becker has converted a 1970s brutalist building in New Haven, designed by Hungarian-American architect Marcel Breuer, into a Passive House hotel. Connecticut-based...
23 June 2022
Future Orlando Skyscraper Makes Progress Towards Breaking Ground
A building that is expected to become among downtown Orlando’s new tallest skyscraper just took a big step toward breaking ground. Developers of the property...
23 June 2022
Rhode Island Supreme Court Clears Way for Skyscraper in Providence
The proposed US$300 million Hope Point Tower project at 250 Dyer St. in the city’s Jewelry District was approved by the city more than three...
23 June 2022
Excavation Underway for 51-Story Residential Tower in New York City
Excavation has begun for The Brook, a 51-story residential skyscraper at 589 Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn. Designed by Beyer Blinder Belle and developed by...
22 June 2022
Laboratory Company Opening Office in Chicago's Tallest Building
Abbott Laboratories is opening a big new office at Willis Tower that could bring as many as 450 jobs downtown, a move meant to provide...
22 June 2022
Two-Building Residential Complex Breaks Ground in Jersey City, Signs Anchor Tenant
On June 16, 2022, principals of Kushner hosted Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop and other dignitaries to mark the true beginning of their 1,723-unit One...
21 June 2022
Construction to Start Summer 2022 on 27-Story Durham Skyscraper in Place of 1970s Bank
Construction is poised to begin in June 2022 on a glassy 27-story skyscraper that will transform the Durham skyline and bring a wealth of residential...
21 June 2022
Downtown Salt Lake City Office Skyscraper to be Converted to Housing
The global development company Hines announced it has acquired the 24-story South Temple Tower building with the intention of renovating the building and converting 217,000...
20 June 2022
Over 2,200 Apartments Proposed Near Casino Site in Chicago
One of Fulton Market District's most prolific developers wants to build more than 2,200 apartments and a hotel on a series of sites between the...
16 June 2022
Foundation Permit Issued For 47-Story Residential Tower in Miami
A phased foundation permit has been issued to Miami-based real estate developer Related Group for a 47-story residential tower at 77 Southeast 5th Street in...
15 June 2022
Milwaukee Office Building Could be Redeveloped
The 100 East office tower in Milwaukee could be partially converted to apartments, condominiums, or a hotel as part of resolving the foreclosure case facing...
13 June 2022
Proposal for 524 New Homes in San Francisco Progresses
Trada has filed a request for a project review meeting with city staff for 395 3rd Street, a 36-story mixed-use infill proposed in SoMa, San...
13 June 2022
Second-Highest Condo at St. Regis Sells in Chicago
A condominium nearly at the top of the new St. Regis sold for US$9.2 million, the highest recorded sale price so far in the Studio...
10 June 2022
Developer Proposes Residential San Diego Tower
A developer is proposing a 37-story residential tower in downtown San Diego, adding to a growing list of new projects. San Francisco-based Cresley Homes, which has...
09 June 2022
Launch of Sales Announced for West Palm Beach High-Rise
Palm Beach-based real estate investment firm, Frisbie Group, and global real estate company, Hines, today announced the launch of sales for South Flagler House located...
09 June 2022
Luxury Residential Development Nears Completion in Chelsea, New York City
Work is wrapping up on The Cortland, a 26-story residential tower at 555 West 22nd Street in West Chelsea. Designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects...
07 June 2022
Construction Completed At 368 Third Avenue In New York City
Construction is complete on VU, a 36-story residential tower at 368 Third Avenue in the Midtown, Manhattan neighborhood of Kips Bay. Designed by SLCE Architects...
06 June 2022
Nashville Venue Owner Purchases Austin Hotel
The Nashville company that owns the Grand Ole Opry has purchased a large piece of the Austin music scene. Stratus Properties sold Block 21, site...
06 June 2022
Luxury Hotel Brand Signs on to Downtown Phoenix Property
Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, a global chain of luxury hotels, has signed a definitive agreement for the development and management of a new hotel and...
03 June 2022
Proposal for Pair of Terrace-Wrapped Residential Towers Revealed in Fort Lauderdale
New York City–based design and architecture studio ODA has proposed a sizable mixed-use project with a duo of sculptural, 43-story residential towers topping a nine-story...
03 June 2022
Sprawling Multi-Use Development Approved in Dallas
Spanning four acres (1.6 hectares) north of Downtown Dallas, the District development will include luxury residences, retail spaces, offices, and a boutique hotel. A public...
01 June 2022
Limestone-Clad Skyscraper in New York City Reaches Completion
Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza has revealed the 611 West 56th Street skyscraper in Manhattan, which is the architect's first building in the United States. The 440-foot-tall...
31 May 2022
Person Dies After Falling from West Palm Beach High-Rise Under Construction
A South Florida flooring company employee died after she fell from the 13th floor of a high-rise condominium under construction in West Palm Beach, police...
27 May 2022
Foundation Permits Issued For Hotel and Residences in Miami Skyscraper
Foundation permits have been issued for 300 Biscayne Boulevard, the site of the upcoming 98-story Waldorf Astoria Hotel & Residences. The project’s developers, Property Markets...
26 May 2022
Demolition Underway For Residential Skyscraper In Hell’s Kitchen, New York City
Demolition has begun at 550 Tenth Avenue, the site of a 47-story residential skyscraper in Hell’s Kitchen. Designed by Handel Architects and developed by Gotham...
23 May 2022
Plaza Transformation Moves Forward with Plans for a 60-Story High-Rise in Jersey City
A 60-story tower with a new supermarket could join an area that is already set for a massive transformation right across from the Sixth Street...
23 May 2022
New Luxury High-Rise Coming to Henderson
The City of Henderson has approved a new high-rise condo development. Construction will soon begin on the Pinnacle Residencies, located inside Macdonald Highlands. This will be...
19 May 2022
New Renderings Released for Mixed-Use Project in Detroit
Dan Gilbert's real estate firm has released updated renderings of what its ambitious Hudson's site development will look like once construction finishes in a few...
19 May 2022
Surfside Condo Collapse Tentative Settlement Reaches Nearly US$1 Billion
A nearly US$1 billion tentative settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit brought by families of victims and survivors of June’ 2021's condominium collapse...
18 May 2022
Demolished Upper East Side Block Being Replaced By Apartment Building in New York City
A stretch of Upper East Side walk-up buildings that were torn down in recent months will be replaced by an 18-story apartment tower, according to...
17 May 2022
Developer Plans 20-Story, 139-Unit Multifamily Project in Miami
Developer Blue Road won conditional approval to build a 20-story, 139-unit multifamily project in North Miami. Emblem Tower Apartments is planned for a site just west...
17 May 2022
Rental Project Completes Construction In Jersey City
Construction is complete on 351 Marin Boulevard, a 38-story rental tower in the Powerhouse Arts District of Jersey City. Designed by Hollwich Kushner and HLW...
16 May 2022
Grand Opening of New High-Rise Apartment Building Takes Place in Dallas
Toll Brothers Apartment Living®, the rental subsidiary of Toll Brothers, Inc. has announced the grand opening of Aster, the company’s new 22-story, 270-unit luxury high-rise...
13 May 2022
Excavation Underway at Residential Tower on Manhattan’s Upper East Side in New York City
Excavation is progressing at 250-252 East 83rd Street, the site of a 23-story residential tower in the Yorkville section of the Upper East Side. Designed...
13 May 2022
High-Rise Complex Planned for Landmark Los Angeles Mall
Primestor Development, which owns the approximately 20-acre (8-hectare) Panorama Mall at 8401 N. Van Nuys Boulevard, filed plans in April of 2022 with the City...
12 May 2022
27-Story Uptown Apartment Tower Hits the Market in Chicago
The developers of a 27-story apartment tower in Uptown have decided to sell the property, one of the biggest residential buildings in the North Side...
12 May 2022
131-141 East 47th Street Tops Out Over Midtown East in New York City
Construction has topped out on 131-141 East 47th Street, a 35-story residential skyscraper in Midtown East. Designed by Ismael Leyva Architects and developed by Lex...
11 May 2022
Demolition Permits Issued To Make Way For 44-Story Miami Residential Building
Full demolition permits have been issued by the City of Miami for the removal of a 20,000-square-foot (1,858-square-meter) structure located at 99 Southwest 7th Street,...
11 May 2022
Minneapolis Public Service Building to be Designed with a Gridded Façade
Global firm Henning Larsen Architects prioritized openness and connectivity to create a Minnesota government building that is part of a "new coalition of civic architecture...
10 May 2022
Casino Details for Downtown Chicago Revealed
Mayor Lori Lightfoot has picked a winning casino for the City of Chicago: It's Bally's, which will get the right to build and operate the...
09 May 2022
Chicago Apartment Developer Eyes Another Massive Riverfront Project
The Canadian developer planning to build almost 2,700 apartments on the southern tip of Goose Island has a deal to buy another big development site...
09 May 2022
Historic Theatre Lifted Nearly 10 Meters During Construction of New York City Hotel Tower
Construction on TSX Broadway has reached a significant milestone with the completion of the historic Palace Theatre’s lift to its new position 30 feet (9.1...
06 May 2022
Retail Giant Executive Buys Condo in News Tower Development in Chicago
A Walmart executive is the latest buyer at the renovated Tribune Towers condo development. Judith McKenna, president and CEO of Walmart’s international division, and her...
06 May 2022
Construction Begins on Carbon Efficient Denver Hotel
As construction begins on Populus, a Denver hotel designed by architecture firm Studio Gang, developer Urban Villages has announced that it has aspirations to be...
03 May 2022
Delayed River North Condo Building in Chicago Tries a New Name
Giving an Erie Street building the appellation of a wine region is part of the effort to uncork sales at the 31-unit building, where one...
03 May 2022
Upscale Apartment Planned for Former High-Rise Site in Houston
A luxury apartment building is in the works at the former site of the planned Ashby high-rise at 1717 Bissonnet St., Houston. El Paso-based Hunt...
02 May 2022
Residential Tower Climbs Beyond Halfway Mark In Jersey City
Construction has passed the halfway mark on 413 Summit Avenue, a 19-story residential tower in the Journal Square section of Jersey City. Designed by Uforma...
29 April 2022
Hard Rock Hotel Opens For Business in Time Square in New York City
The Hard Rock Hotel at 159 West 48th Street is the newest hotel to open in Midtown, Manhattan’s iconic Times Square district. Designed by SLCE...
28 April 2022
Tech Giant HQ Gets Permission to Build in Arlington
The spiral-shaped glass tower designed by architecture studio NBBJ for Amazon's second headquarters has been given permission to be built in Arlington, Virginia. Called The...
28 April 2022
New York City Developers Propose 44-Story Mixed-Use Skyscraper For Downtown Jacksonville’s Riverfront
American Lions LLC, a joint venture between New York City-based residential developers Fetner Properties and the Lions Group, have proposed to develop a 44-story mixed-use...
26 April 2022
Foundations Underway For Third Tower in Residential Complex In Jersey City
Foundations are progressing for Journal Squared Tower 3, a 60-story residential skyscraper and the final component in the three-building complex in Journal Square, Jersey City....
25 April 2022
Mixed-Use Building at Downtown Brooklyn Campus Reaches Completion
Construction is complete on The Willoughby, a 34-story mixed-use tower at 196 Willoughby Street on Long Island University‘s Downtown Brooklyn campus. Designed by Perkins Eastman...
22 April 2022
U.S. West Coast Firms to Build an Office Tower in Austin
Two real estate firms on the West Coast are teaming up on a new Downtown Austin skyscraper. Lincoln Property Company and its equity partner DivcoWest announced...
21 April 2022
Developer Breaks Ground on 32-Story Downtown Apartments in San Antonio
Weston Urban's next big skyline-altering project in San Antonio is underway, kicking off the Frost Tower developer's refocus on the residential market. Dallas-based builder Rogers-O'Brien...
21 April 2022
Harrisburg University Finishes Construction on US$100 Million Tower
Harrisburg University is nearing completion on the outside portion of its new US$110 million Science Education Center in downtown Harrisburg. The last days for final lifts,...
21 April 2022
Former Bank Building in Detroit Redeveloped as Mixed-Use Project
A long-vacant bank building in Southgate has been sold, with announced plans for a major redevelopment project. On Monday, 19 April, 2022, Friedman Real Estate announced...
20 April 2022
Two High-Rise Buildings Planned for Dallas
A New Jersey developer is planning a 27-story high-rise in Dallas’ Design District as part of a complex it is developing. A real estate development...
19 April 2022
Construction of Vertical Medical City Announced in Orlando
Ponte Health Global Corporation has announced the establishment of the Vertical Medical City Foundation, in Florida, to promote the progress of Geriatric Medical, Geriatric Biomedical,...
19 April 2022
Condo in Chicago's Gold Coast Sells for US$17.4 Million
A condo at super-luxury building No. 9 Walton sold in March, 2022 for US$17.4 million, the second-highest price so far in a year where the...
18 April 2022
Downtown Chicago Office Buildings Slowly Bounce Back in Year Three of the Pandemic
Demand for Chicago offices is starting to emerge as the pandemic wanes. The conundrum resulted in a new record-high vacancy rate of 21.2 percent in the...
15 April 2022
First Official Renderings Revealed for New Bank Headquarters in New York City
Foster + Partners has been announced as the architect for JPMorgan Chase‘s 60-story headquarters at 270 Park Avenue, and has released the first set of...
13 April 2022
Stalled New York City Complex Set to Resume Construction
Construction is set to resume on The XI, with a revised completion date of “Winter 2024” posted for the stalled two-tower mixed-use project at 76...
11 April 2022
Water Tower Place Lender Taking Over Chicago Mall
About a year after losing Macy’s, its largest tenant, the owner of big North Michigan Avenue shopping mall, Brookfield Property Partners, has decided to hand...
08 April 2022
Residential, Hotel, and Theater Harlem Development to Move Forward
A development that will bring apartments, retail and more arts to an uptown New York City cultural center is moving forward. Lam Group and Exact Capital...
07 April 2022
Retired Airplane to be Suspended Between a Seattle Complex
Japan-based architecture firm OSO has released a plan to suspend a Boeing 747 aircraft between two towers in a downtown Seattle complex designed by Henriquez...
07 April 2022
Hotel Nears Halfway Mark in Manhattan, New York City
Construction is nearing the halfway mark on H Hotel W39, a 29-story hotel tower at 58 West 39th Street in Midtown. Designed by Peter F....
05 April 2022
Developer Buys Uptown Museum Site With Plans for High-Rise Apartment Building in Charlotte
The Levine Museum of the New South has sold its uptown building for US$10.75 million to a New York developer that plans to build luxury...
01 April 2022
Chicago Investor in Megadeal for Wacker Drive Tower
Chicago real estate investor Tim Callahan has returned to the downtown office market, partnering with a New York firm to buy the 55-story tower at...
31 March 2022
Lobby and Atrium of Denver Tower Revamped
Design studio MAWD has redone the interiors of an IM Pei tower in Denver, Colorado, including the lobby and an adjoining Philip Johnson-designed atrium. The...
30 March 2022
San Francisco’s Iconic Transamerica Tower to Receive Retrofit
Foster + Partners is set to give San Francisco’s landmark Transamerica Tower its biggest overhaul in the building’s 50-year history. The US$250 million scheme for developer...
25 March 2022
Social Media Company Nears Deal for Larger Office in Chicago's Fulton Market
After its deal to lease a new office in the Fulton Market District fell through, social media app company Snap has set its sights on...
25 March 2022
57-Story Apartment Building to Rise Across from Seattle City Hall
A permit was issued Wednesday, 16 March, 2022 to allow shoring and excavation work on unfinished lot on Third & Cherry, across from Seattle City...
24 March 2022
Atlanta Residential Building Continues Unit Sales
Seven88 West Midtown, a high-rise residential condominium in West Midtown, brings sales in-house with agents from McKinley Homes. The condo building is now open seven...
23 March 2022
Firm Announces Sales for their First Miami Beach Condo Tower
The Perigon has just launched sales in Miami Beach, becoming the first ever condo tower in the city designed by Rem Koolhaas’s OMA. The 17-story tower...
23 March 2022
New York City University Expansion Nears Completion
Construction is nearing completion on NYU‘s campus expansion at 181 Mercer Street in Greenwich Village. Designed by Davis Brody Bond and KieranTimberlake, the 735,000-square-foot (68,283-square-meter)...
22 March 2022
Finalized Plans for Louisville Complex Unveiled
Seven years and 17 public meetings later, finalized plans for the last portion of the controversial One Park plaza project near Cherokee Park have been...
21 March 2022
Construction Permits Filed for 73-Story Residential Condo Tower In Miami
New construction permits have been filed for Baccarat Residences, a 73-story residential skyscraper located at 99 Southeast 5th Street in Brickell. The permit filing has...
18 March 2022
Third Ward Board Approves New Tower in Milwaukee
The Historic Third Ward Architectural Review Board gave final approval Wednesday, 16 March, 2022 to a plan to construct a 31-story apartment tower at the...
18 March 2022
Architect Tapped for Major Hoboken Waterfront Redevelopment Plan
In Hoboken, New Jersey, a waterfront redevelopment may soon bring new housing, offices, retail, and public space to an area surrounding the city's major interstate...
16 March 2022
Latest Addition to Austin's Skyline to be 58-Story Skyscraper
Joining a recent spate of new tower announcements, a partnership between two developers says it has started work on a 58-story, 675-foot-tall (205-meter-tall) skyscraper that...
16 March 2022
Cancer Care Tower to Rise 31 Stories in New York City
The medical tower boom on the Upper East Side will continue with a new 31-story pavilion planned by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the organization...
15 March 2022
15-Story Affordable Housing Coming To East Harlem in New York City
A 15-story affordable apartment tower will soon replace a row of buildings on an East Harlem block, according to new plans. Developer Elie Fouerti filed plans...
15 March 2022
Major Brands Fill Fulton Market Office Building in Chicago
The company that makes White Claw and billionaire Lukas Walton's philanthropic and investment venture have leased new Fulton Market District offices, helping fill the remaining...
11 March 2022
Boston Hotel and Residences Tops Out at 35 Stories
Raffles Boston Back Bay Hotel & Residences, part of world hospitality group Accor, topped off on 3 March, 2022, reaching 35 floors and raising a...
10 March 2022
Downtown San Francisco Complex Officially Opens
After years of planning and development, the 5M project celebrated its official opening. Located on a 4-acre (1.6-hectare) site in the heart of Downtown San Francisco,...
10 March 2022
Developer Closes on Site in Jersey City for Residential Development
A developer has acquired a series of parcels on the west side of Jersey City for US$25.5 million, with plans calling for a large residential...
09 March 2022
This Cannabis Firm Lease in Chicago Would Mark a New Trend
One of Chicago's publicly traded marijuana companies is close to leasing space for a new headquarters in River North, a potential breakthrough for cannibis firms...
08 March 2022
Former John Hancock Center Seeking Medical Tenants in Chicago
Chicago-based real estate firm Hearn is looking for medical providers to move into the former John Hancock Center, now formally known as 875 North Michigan...
07 March 2022
Brooklyn Residential High-Rise Tops Out
Exterior work is finishing up on One Bell Slip, a 30-story residential tower in Greenpoint, Brooklyn‘s Greenpoint Landing waterfront master plan. Designed by Handel Architects...
07 March 2022
Chicago Mixed-Use Supertall Makes its Highest-Priced Sale to Date
A condominium on the 80th floor of the new St. Regis tower, formerly known as Vista, sold for nearly US$8.85 million. The condo, about 6,400 square...
04 March 2022
Residential Renderings Revealed in Fort Lauderdale
300 West Broward, in Fort Lauderdale's Downtown comprises two 38-story volumes on top of a shared 10-story podium, bringing together a mixed use program of...
02 March 2022
Agreement Announced to Preserve Affordable Housing At New York City Tower for 30 Years
Inwood Tower, a New York State-supervised Mitchell-Lama cooperative, will remain an affordable housing property for the next 30 years following an agreement forged by Governor...
28 February 2022
Mutual of Omaha Seeking Funding for New Skyscraper
Mutual of Omaha is requesting up to US$68.6 million in tax-increment financing to help with construction of a new skyscraper in downtown Omaha. If the city...
25 February 2022
Major Hotel Brand Ends Partnership with Chicago High-Rise Hotel
As they stare down a US$70 million foreclosure lawsuit, the owners of the Conrad Chicago hotel have split with Hilton Worldwide as the shuttered inn's...
24 February 2022
Developer Offers First Look at 43-Story Houston Tower
Developers of a new 43-story skyscraper rising near Discovery Green Park have named the luxury apartment building Parkside Residences and expect to complete the 309-unit...
21 February 2022
New York City Upper West Side Tower Secures Sizable Construction Loan
After some legal issues, Gary Barnett’s Extell Development is beginning to make progress on an Upper West Side condo tower. Extell landed US$967 million in...
21 February 2022
311 West Huron Interiors Revealed in Chicago
CTBUH has just received an update on the interiors of 311 West Huron in Chicago, US. The project is being designed by NORR Group Consultants...
18 February 2022
Offer Placed on $30 Million Unfinished Penthouse in Chicago
The unfinished penthouse at the top of Trump International Hotel & Tower is tentatively under contract to a buyer. The unit, more than 14,200 square feet...
18 February 2022
Planned Tower Stalled Over Neighborhood Concerns
A developer has said that an Upper East Side synagogue is unfairly blocking the construction of a 20-story tower next door—but the synagogue contends that...
17 February 2022
Company Proposes 45-Story Tower for Site of Famous Seattle Car Wash
It’s been almost a year and a half since the Elephant Super Car Wash was demolished and the historic pink signs were dismantled at Denny...
17 February 2022
Long Island University Student Center Could be Supplanted with a 29-Story Residential Tower
The designers behind a Brooklyn luxury building want to build an apartment tower where a Long Island University student center currently stands, permits show.The new...
16 February 2022
Downtown Durham YMCA set for Major Transformation
The downtown Durham YMCA is set for a radical transformation in the coming years, after agreeing to a deal with a developer to build a...
14 February 2022
Plans in the Works to Demolish Raleigh Hotel for 20-Story Building
The iconic circular Holiday Inn in downtown Raleigh is still open for now. The days are winding down before it is demolished and replaced by...
11 February 2022
Mixed-Use Building Tops Out in New York City
Construction has topped out on TSX Broadway, a 46-story mixed-use hotel tower at 1568 Broadway in Times Square. Designed by Perkins Eastman and Mancini Duffy...
10 February 2022
New York-Based Developers Propose Residential Project in Fort Lauderdale
A pair of New York-based developers have filed plans with the Development Review Committee of the City of Fort Lauderdale seeking approvals for the construction...
09 February 2022
Exterior Begins to Take Shape on Topped-Out New York City Complex
Façade installation has begun on 595 Dean Street, a two-building mixed-use development in the Pacific Park complex in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Designed by Handel Architects...
08 February 2022
Mixed-Use Building Proposed for Chicago's Fulton Market
CTBUH has just received confirmation that a tall building has been proposed for the Fulton Market neighborhood in Chicago, US. 170 Green is a mixed-use...
08 February 2022
Residential Building Reaches Completion in New York City
The certificate of occupancy was released to 102 Charlton Street on 12 January, 2022, which is a 22-story residential building in Hudson Square. Designed by...
07 February 2022
Talent Agency to Move to New Headquarters in Los Angeles
Los Angeles talent and sports agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA) has announced that it will be moving from its current Century City offices at 2000...