Plans Filed For 52-Story, 600-Apartment Hudson Yards Tower

MIDTOWN MANHATTAN, NY — The Hudson Yards building boom continues on, as developers have filed plans with the city Department of Buildings to construct a new 52-story development in the Midtown neighborhood.

Luxury development firm Rockrose filed plans to build a 565-foot-tall mixed-use development on a large corner lot situated on West 38th Street and 11th Avenue, according to city records. The development will be mainly residential and contain 598 apartment units.

With 402,202 square feet zoned for residential use, the average apartment unit in the new building will be about 672 square feet large. It appears that units in the middle floors of the building will be smaller than those on the upper floors. There will be 17 apartment units per floor between the building's 14 and 31st floors compared to 7 apartment units per floor between the building's 34th and 54th floors, according to building plans. The number of units on other floors are varied and many of the floors in the middle of the building will be used for mechanical or amenity purposes.

Planned residential amenities include an arts room, bike storage, a residential lounge, laundry rooms, an indoor squash court and golf simulator and an exercise room. The development will also feature a 1,640-square-foot retail space on the first floor.

The site of the planned development is currently in use as a parking lot. It's unclear when construction on the new tower will begin.

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