As neighborhoods go, New York City’s Midtown West (aka Clinton or Hell’s Kitchen) is a microcosm of the city itself. Roughly carved between 34th and 59th Streets, from 8th Avenue to the Hudson River, it retains the grittiness of its immigrant roots with tenement buildings, warehouses, shops, restaurants, hospitals, and schools. It is also a stone’s throw from the urban core of Manhattan — Broadway, Fifth Avenue, Times Square, Lincoln Center, Central Park, and the Midtown business district — making it ripe for gentrification, a process that has been evolving for about 20 years.

This in fill project, designed by Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects for the SDS Procida Development Group, features a 176,000-square-foot concrete structure on a sloping, 300-foot-long, L-shaped site.