Carter's Review

This very attractive, glass, 43-story tower at 45 Park Place in Tribeca will have 50 condominium apartments. 

It is being developed by SoHo Properties of which Sharif Al-Gamal is a principal and designed by SOMA Architects and Ismael Leyva.  It will have a plaza and a three-story Islamic cultural center and museum designed by Jean Nouvel.  Piero Lissoni is the interior designer.

The building is located between Church Street and West Broadway.

The development company quietly picked up 45 Park Place in 2009 for a meager $4.85 million when it was a shuttered Burlington Coat Factory that was badly damaged during September 11, 2001 and the site was being used as an annex space for Tribeca’s Al Farah mosque.

When it was acquired, the site was calendared for consideration by the City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission but the commission declined to give it such status in 2010.

Bottom Line

A mid-block, glass tower with large apartments in TriBeCa.

Description

The building has 8 setbacks at asymmetrical locations.

Amenities

The building has a full-time concierge, a 50-foot swimming pool and spa, a fitness center and yoga studio, a residents’ lounge, a package room, a courtyard, cold storage, and a children’s playroom.

Apartments

There are two duplex penthouses with sculptural staircases with 14-foot-high ceilings.

Apartments on the lower 23 floors are one-to-three bedroom units and above the 24^th floor they are three- and four-bedroom units. Floors 6 through 15 have 12-foot-high ceilings, floors 17 through 23 have 13-foot-high ceilings, floors 24 through 39 have 11-foot-high ceilings.

Apartment 34 has a 37-foot-long Great Room with 11-foot-high ceilings with a Boffi kitchen with white matte lacquer cabinetry, Corian countertops, Gaggenau appliances, a wine cabinet.  The bathroom has Pietro d’Avola Lithoverde limestone heated floors and walls with a Stonage free-standing tub and double vanity.  It has four bedrooms, a 28-foot-long, pass-through kitchen, a 25-foot-long south gallery and a 30-foot-long north.

Apartment 15E is a three-bedroom unit with an entry foyer that leads to a 23-foot-wide living/dining room with a 21-foot-wide open kitchen with an island.

Apartment 18E is a two-bedroom unit with an entry foyer that leads past a 12-foot-wide open kitchen with an island to a 21-foot-wide living/dining room.

Apartment 17W is a two-bedroom unit with an entry foyer that leads to a 13-foot-wide open kitchen with an island and a 22-foot-wide living/dining room.