MORE EVENTSGROUNDBREAKING
The Museum for African Art and their development partner Brickman have broken ground on their mixed use project to include the Museum for African Art and a residential tower at 1280 Fifth Avenue on Museum Mile in New York City.
The Museum for African Art and 1280 Fifth Ground-Breaking Ceremony
With Governor Eliot Spitzer, Congressman Charles B. Rangel and Borough President Scott Springer
On September 24, 2007 the Museum for African Art and their development partner Brickman broke ground on their mixed use project to include a permanent home for the Museum for African Art and a residential tower above.
Located at 1280 Fifth Avenue this will be the first new museum building built on New York's Museum Mile since the completion of The Guggenheim in 1959, the Museum for African Art's new building will encompass approximately 80,000 gross square feet with 16,000 square feet of exhibition space, dramatic event space, theatre, education center, library, classrooms, restaurant and gift shop.
The project will stand at the northeast corner of Central Park at the beginning of Fifth Avenue's Museum Mile between 109th and 110th Streets.
About Brickman
Brickman is a real estate private equity firm that invests with the perspective and insight of an owner-operator. Since 1992, the firm has invested in excess of $2.5 billion of total capital in more than 54 real estate transactions throughout the United States. Brickman owns and operates all property types, applies opportunistic and core investment strategies, and invests across the entire capital structure of real estate assets. www.brickmanre.com