The client for the residential conversion of the Artisan Lofts building in Manhattan’s TriBeCa neighborhood selected Pavarini McGovern as their CM for our extensive residential experience, both new and renovation. The program calls for the conversion of a 17-story 132,000-SF cast-in-place reinforced concrete former manufacturing building into 45 high-end condominiums with a lobby, amenity space, and retail and mechanical space.

The existing circa-1931 building has a concrete structure and industrial steel, single-pane windows. In the 1990s, a modernization of the building into office space included installing a full sprinkler system and upgraded MEP systems. The new design calls for vertical expansion (see progress photo at right); the clean up of the exterior façade, including the removal of a number of metal straps applied over the face brick, and includes the replacement of the steel windows. The new exterior enclosure will be a combination of punched windows & brick masonry, and double hung windows will replace all existing windows.

The design may include adding balconies on the rear (north) façade, as well as fireplaces on the upper floors. In addition, the project team will demolish the existing fire stair at the northeast corner of the building, and we will install a new "scissor star" near the pair of the existing elevators that are to remain. The scope will include a new metal deck & concrete in all of the existing freight elevator & stair shaft openings, and the removal of two existing freight elevators and installation of a new concrete slab for an expanded apartment floor area. The first phase of construction will include a new core, removal of existing boilers in the basement and installation of a new emergency generator. The fire alarm design is code compliant J2 classification.