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A New Addition to the Glass Jungle

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GROWTH SPURT

A glass addition on top of the current office building’s steel frame would add 40 floors and make the tower 1,400 ft.–officially “supertall.”

MIXED-USE

The current office building would be replaced with retail space, an 11-story hotel and condos likely priced at $6,000 per sq. ft.

PLANNING AHEAD

Kushner Co., which bought the building a decade ago, projects beginning demolition work in 2019 and completing the building by 2025.

THE STARCHITECT

The late Iraqi-born British architect Zaha Hadid designed the building before her death last year.

INVESTOR DRAMA

Reports that Chinese company Anbang would invest raised eyebrows in D.C. Kushner had stepped down as CEO of the firm by the time of Trump’s inauguration. Anbang has since pulled out.

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