The Athena Group is developing 111 Central Park North, a 19-story, 47-unit high-rise luxury condominium community in New York City. The two-, three-, and four-bedroom units will feature hardwood flooring, floor-to-ceiling windows, balconies and terraces, and bathrooms with polished chrome fixtures and gold marble countertops. Amenities will include a landscaped 10,000-square-foot terrace overlooking Central Park, party room, fitness center, and underground parking. Halstead Property is the sales and marketing team; prices start at $1.5 million. The project is expected to be completed by September 2007.
Phoenix Property Co. will develop a student housing community on the 48,000-square-foot site of the YMCA Central Branch in Boston near the Northeastern University campus and the Colleges of the Fenway. Current designs call for approximately 1,000 beds in 400 apartments with one-, two-, and four-bedroom units. Amenities will include study rooms, an Internet cafè, a theater room, a game room, and a fitness center. Construction is expected to begin in 2008, with completion scheduled for the summer of 2010.
Opus North Corp. is developing Port Clinton Place, a luxury community in Vernon Hills, Ill., to include 132 condos and 47 townhomes. The project will be part of a 20-acre mixed-use development. Each condo building will have six levels of residential over two levels of parking. The one-, two-, and three-bedroom condo units will range from the mid-$200,000s to $500,000s. The first units will be delivered in the fall of 2007.
United Properties has completed The Villas at Midland Hills, a golf community in Roseville, Minn., with 32 condos and six single-family residences. Units feature oversized windows, stainless steel kitchen appliances, gas fireplaces, and ceramic-tiled master baths with in-floor heating. Buyers receive membership to the Midland Hills Country Club, which includes access to dining, banquet, and fitness rooms. Condo prices start in the low $300,000s.
Summit Design + Build broke ground on Converge Condominiums, a five-story, 16-unit building in Chicago. The 1,500-square-foot units will feature floor-to-ceiling windows, hardwood floors, Italian cabinetry, granite countertops, and stainless steel appliances. The building includes about 2,200 square feet of ground-floor commercial space. Completion is scheduled for the summer of 2007.
Rokas International is developing Motor Row Condominiums, the first new-construction condo project in Chicago’s historic Motor Row district. The 94-unit building features one- and two-bedroom units with exposed concrete ceilings, recessed and track lighting, granite and stone countertops, and stainless steel appliances. First-floor retail space will feature 14-foot-high windows in homage to the prominent street level displays found in the old auto showrooms.
Gables Residential is developing Gables 6464, a 163-unit apartment property in Houston. The one- and two-bedroom units will feature wood flooring, kitchen islands with granite countertops and backsplashes, and imported slate tiles in the entries and kitchens. Amenities will include a 3,700-square-foot clubhouse, great room, business center, cyber cafè, and outdoor pool and spa. Meeks + Partners is designing the project.
–Listings compiled by Rachel Z. Azoff