The only other structures on the Savoy-Plaza block were the four-story Emmet Arcade and the 15-story Madison Hotel. The site of the General Motors Building was then occupied by the Savoy, which would be replaced in 1927 by the Savoy-Plaza Hotel. The corner of Fifth Avenue, Central Park South, and 59th Street was developed with the Plaza, Savoy, and New Netherland hotels during the 1890s.
By the early 1900s, that section of Fifth Avenue was becoming a commercial area. įifth Avenue between 42nd Street and Central Park South was relatively undeveloped through the late 19th century, when brownstone rowhouses were built on the avenue. In addition, The Pond and Hallett Nature Sanctuary within Central Park is to the northwest, across Grand Army Plaza. The General Motors Building is near The Sherry-Netherland to the north 500 Park Avenue to the east the Fuller Building and Four Seasons Hotel New York to the southeast the LVMH Tower and 3 East 57th Street to the south the Solow Building and Bergdorf Goodman Building to the southwest and the Plaza Hotel to the west.
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The building is assigned its own ZIP Code, 10153 it was one of 41 buildings in Manhattan that had their own ZIP Codes as of 2019. The General Motors Building's site covers 84,350 square feet (7,836 m 2), with a frontage of 200 feet (61 m) on Fifth and Madison Avenues and 420 feet (130 m) on 58th and 59th Streets. It is bounded by 59th Street to the north Fifth Avenue and Grand Army Plaza to the west 58th Street to the south and Madison Avenue to the east. The General Motors Building is at 767 Fifth Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. The joint venture continues to own the building as of 2022. Macklowe sold the building in 2008 to the joint venture of Boston Properties, Zhang Xin, and the Safra banking family for $2.8 billion. Five years later, it was sold to Macklowe Organization for $1.4 billion, then the highest price for a North American office building. Conseco and Donald Trump purchased the General Motors Building from CPI in 1998. Ultimately, Corporate Property Investors (CPI) bought an option on the building in 1982 and conducted a renovation in 1990.
General Motors relocated most of its employees and announced their intention to sell the building in 1981. Architecture critics, including Paul Goldberger and Ada Louise Huxtable, widely disapproved of the building upon its completion.Īll of the space in the building had been leased by January 1967, over a year prior to opening. The public plaza outside the building on Fifth Avenue was originally below grade but, after two renovations, contains the Apple Fifth Avenue entrance and a seating area above ground level. The building has about 1.7 million square feet (160,000 m 2) of space, and the lobby originally contained a GM showroom, later an FAO Schwarz department store.
The building's facade is made of vertical piers of white Georgia marble, alternating with strips of glass. The GM Building was developed by London Merchant Securities and was half occupied by General Motors (GM) upon its opening. It was designed in the International Style by Edward Durell Stone & Associates with Emery Roth & Sons and completed in 1968. The building occupies an entire city block between Fifth Avenue, Madison Avenue, 59th Street, and 58th Street on the site of the former Savoy-Plaza Hotel. The General Motors Building (also the GM Building) is a 50-story, 705 ft (215 m) office tower at 767 Fifth Avenue at Grand Army Plaza on the southeast corner of Central Park, in Manhattan, New York City.
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