Extell Development’s purchase of Lenox Hill properties it recently filed plans to demolish hit the city record this week.
The real estate firm bought 33-39 E. 60th St. for about $103 million from the Goldman family, which had owned the buildings since at least the 1970s, property records show. The sale closed Feb. 26 but did not appear in public records until Tuesday. Extell had filed to tear down the buildings March 4 and 5, according to Department of Buildings records.
Extell also purchased 655 Madison Ave. in October for about $160 million. The site is around the corner from the East 60th Street buildings. The Gary Barnett-led developer plans to build a 37-story, roughly 193,000-square-foot project at the address with 62 residential units along with office, retail and hotel space.
The company’s purchase of and demolition plans for 33-39 E. 60th St. would seem to indicate that it seeks to make the Madison Avenue project even larger, although a representative for Extell did not respond to questions about its ideas for the site by press time.
A representative for Solil Management, a real estate arm of the Goldman family, also did not respond to a request for comment by press time.
The properties at 33-39 E. 60th St. are each 5 stories and 75 feet tall, and they span roughly 28,000 square feet in total, city records show. High-end Chinese restaurant Philippe Chow has a location at 33 E. 60th St., though it is not immediately clear what will happen to the eatery.
Extell also recently purchased the office building at 15 W. 46th St. for about $24.8 million and sold a retail condo at the base of The Briarcliffe, a luxury condo building on Billionaires Row, for $25 million. The developer recently sold 355 E. 86th St. on the Upper East Side to Chess Builders, which plans to build a pair of 23-story towers with 198 apartments overall at the address, as well.
