Extell Needs To Deliver

To the Editor:

This feels like a no-brainer (“We Need More Classrooms at Riverside Center,” Nov. 4). The shift in use on the Extell site to a higher percentage of residential, rather than commercial use will earn the developer an extra gazillion dollars. Read more

PUBLIC GETS FIRST LOOK AT RIVERSIDE SOUTH

Upper West Siders got their first glimpse of the size and scope of Extell’s Riverside South development at an Oct. 30 meeting of Community Board 7’s Riverside South Working Group. About 100 citizens gathered at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital on Tenth Avenue to see Extell’s 8.2-acre proposal to build four residential glass towers and one commercial tower, plus 3.2 acres of public open space. Read more

EXTELL NIXES COSTCO AT RIVERSIDE SOUTH

A proposal to put a Costco in the 3.3 -million-square-foot Riverside South development project has been nixed. The developer, Extell Development Co., made calls to Upper West Side elected officials on Sept. 26 to announce the newest change to the plan.
Extell also eliminated 500 parking spaces from project; the developer initially requested 2,300 spots.
“[President of Extell] Gary Barnett has heard the concerns of the community, the community board and elected officials, as well as City Planning Commission Chair Amanda Burden and her staff, and has therefore eliminated Costco Read more