In keeping with the Three Cairns Group’s philanthropic focus on the worldwide well-being of future generations, planning for this upscale tenant fit-up project viewed all materials and building products through a carbon study lens.
Suffolk took over the mixed-use development while pandemic-era restrictions were still in place one year after construction halted in 2020 under a different developer and construction manager.
The two-year project combined meticulous restoration of an early 1900s-era building with the addition of a complementary 24-story tower, creating a unique hospitality experience that features more than 150 elegantly designed suites.
The project revitalized a historic 1920s-era French Baroque theater —that once hosted Buddy Holly & the Crickets, Chuck Berry, Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald—by preserving its former grandeur while integrating modern technologies to meet today’s performance standards.
Named in the 1920s as a tribute to allied forces’ triumph in World War I, the Endicott Johnson Victory Shoe Factory was long a symbol of local pride and prosperity.
The project included a new manufacturing line, increased warehouse and distribution capacity, office space for the custom storage container manufacturer, refrigerated containers, containerized shelters and modular building systems.
Part of a larger East River Waterfront esplanade, the in-water structure fills in a gap in Manhattan’s Waterfront Greenway, a planned continuous 32.5-mile loop around the island.