The Buchanan

• 160 East 48th Street 
• Ongoing
• Size: 297,703 sq ft
• Type: Mixed Use
• Developer: Madison Realty Capital 

299 residential unit building with commercial space on the ground floor including a restaurant.  Crown is tasked with a multitude of scopes for this project, including the renovation of the apartment units to create more modern layouts and additional bathrooms where possible, renovation of common area hallways with new finishes, the coordination of mechanical and plumbing shaftways for full building utility risers, and the renovation of other common spaces including a residential gym and lounge in the cellar floor. Adding bathrooms was complicated because of the coordination of existing plumbing risers and minimal depth of floors to run plumbing through. Rent control also created an obstacle of not being able to be provided access to the adjacent units of the areas that Crown was working on. The project is ongoing and will include the renovation of other common spaces including a residential gym and lounge in the cellar floor.