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Going for the Gold: LEED-Certified Condo Tower with Triathlon-Training Facility Rises in New York
Published: September 26, 2007
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By Kelly Sheehan, Online News Editor
New York—The Alexico Group is building The Laurel, a new condominium tower located at 400 East 67th St. on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The 129-unit project, which has been designed by Costas Kondylis, is scheduled for occupancy in fall 2008.
The Laurel, featuring a limestone façade, is being built to the standards of the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) program. The complex, which is being marketed by Corcoran Sunshine Group, will be located adjacent to St. Catherine’s Park.
The complex’s most defining feature will be its Trophy Club, a bi-level fitness and triathlon-training center designed by John Sitaras, a well-known fitness specialist in New York. The Trophy Club will include custom-designed resistance pools, a 50-ft. Infiniti lap pool with glass mosaic tile, state-of-the-art equipment, sauna and steam room. Triathlon coach Orion Mims will be providing residents with customized fitness programs.
In an effort to be environmentally friendly, The Laurel will encourage its residents to use public and alternative transportation. The complex will provide bike racks and storage facilities. The project will also include water-efficient landscaping, enhanced refrigeration management with non-ozone depleting refrigerants, construction waste management and recycled-content, low-E construction materials. In addition, The Laurel will be built to optimize daylighting opportunities, and the materials used to build the complex will come from local manufacturers.
The condos, which will feature studio to five-bedroom layouts, will include solid oak floors, expansive windows, Poggenpohl cabinets, Sub-Zero refrigerators and wine coolers, Gaggenau appliances, translucent glass gliding doors, “magic” bathroom mirrors that include integrated LCD screens inside, and heated boned Bianco Sevic white marble mosaic bathroom floors as well as floor-to-ceiling honed white marble bathroom walls.
Additional amenities at the community, which faces First Avenue, will include The Laurel Club, which will feature a double-height atrium lounge with plasma TV and sound system, film and book library, screening room, dining/conference room, toddler craft clubhouse, game room with custom-designed pool table and foos ball, arcade and computer room.
