12-Story Apartment Tower To Replace Hell's Kitchen Lexus Service Garage

HELL'S KITCHEN, NY — Developers have filed plans to demolish a Lexus service garage in Hell's Kitchen and replace it with a 12-story residential tower, according to public documents filed with the city Department of Buildings.

The new development will rise 120 feet from a site on West 47th street between 10th and 11th avenues, according to building plans. The new building will contain 207 apartment units and 157,745 square feet of buildable residential space, according to building plans. The average apartment in the new development will be about 762 square feet large.

The new building will also have 19,992 square feet of commercial space, which will be used to construct a ground floor automotive showroom, according to development plans.

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Plans to demolish the existing two-story, 32-foot-tall garage were filed at the beginning of October, according to DOB records.

In the time between the demolition of the existing garage and the construction of the mixed-use apartment tower the building site's zoning characteristics will be altered, according to development plans. The site is currently zoned as an M1-5 light manufacturing district, but the new development will be zoned as an R8A and R8 general residence district with a commercial overlay.

Scott Shnay of SK Development is listed on development plans as the building's owner. Scott Loikits of the firm Greenberg Farrow Architecture is listed as the new development's designer.

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