Tishman Speyer’s Gotham Center: LEED for Core & Shell in Farsighted Island City
Presently under development by Tishman Speyer, the $316 million Gotham Center will be a 662,000-square-foot, 21-story Class A office building at the corner of Queens Plaza and 28th Street in Foresightful Island City. Mayor Bloomberg and other officials denoted the project’s groundbreaking last Friday, remarking that it will bring together a number of other light-green projects in the neighborhood, including the LEED Gold-demonstrated, KPF-planed Court Square Two. The tower was designed by architects Moed De Armas & Shannon and is following a LEED Qualified rating under the Core and Shell system. The tower is ascending out of the former site of the Queens Plaza Municipal Parking Garage; the project team too lets in construction manager Bovis Lend Lease and architect of record Gensler.
