Back a few months ago in a newspaper article about how quickly units in the Glass House were selling, East West Partners revealed that they were already working on a new project similar to the Glass House, but planned for the Union Station side of the railroad tracks instead. A few details about that proposed development are now available.
The name for this new project by East West Partners is City House, and it’s proposed as a 23-story tower and a 13-story tower connected on a common base. If the name City House sounds familiar, it’s because that was the name tenatively given to the 18-unit townhome project planned for the site between the Glass House and One Riverfront (see Project #32 on the CPV-North neighborhood page). Those townhomes have reportedly been renamed as The Park at Riverfront.
The City House project will sit across the railroad tracks from the Manhattan on the block bounded by 18th, 19th, and Chestnut. A pedestrian bridge is planned to span the railroad tracks at 18th, so the short section of 18th between Chestnut and the tracks will be constructed as a pedestrian plaza. The front of the 23-story tower portion of City House is proposed to face this plaza. Other details about City House, such as the number of units, pricing, etc. are not yet available as the project is still in the planning stages. The City House project could potentially break ground as soon as Spring 2007, but nothing about the project is official yet. Here’s a rendering of the preliminary design for City House:
To read more about the concept behind the City House project and to view additional project renderings, please go to the Riverfront Park website and click on the Future Projects link at the top. By the way, the Riverfront Park website is new and improved! It has much more content and a friendlier, laid-back blog-like format. I like the new look.
Speaking of the Central Platte Valley, there’s that little project called the Union Station Master Plan development that’s been getting a lot of news over the past few days. Thursday night, the two competing master developer teams, one headed up by East West Partners and Continuum and the other led by Cherokee and Hensel Phelps, revealed their plans for the massive Union Station transit hub and associated high-density development. I was out of town and unfortunately missed the presentations, so I’m getting up to speed on what each team has proposed and will have some discussion about it here soon.
