The Plan: At the Loggia NoMad, There’s No Shortage of … Well … Loggias

If there is one thing condominium buyers in Manhattan are looking for, it’s private outdoor space. At the Loggia NoMad, a condo going up at 842 Sixth Avenue, developers Pro H Group and Vara Holdings are making sure there’s an abundance of it. 

Pre-sales have launched at the 28-story Art Deco building, which is expected to be fully completed in the second quarter of next year. There will be 94 condos with four units per floor, each having private outdoor space featuring a prominent arch (aka  loggias) that provides an abundance of natural light. 

“The tower shifts approximately 10 degrees to the south to take advantage of the light,” Ralph Kowalczyk, partner at designer Isaac & Stern, told Commercial Observer. “We carry all those arches throughout the rest of the project. The inspiration is Art Deco.” 

The residences will include one-bedroom units, some with home offices — which is the coziest place to work and get extraordinary views the higher up you go. Loggia NoMad also has two-bedroom units and two penthouses that feature their own private rooftop spaces. Condo prices start at approximately $1.25 million for one-bedrooms and rise to more than $4.5 million for a penthouse.

Residents will have access to three floors of amenities curated to focus on wellness and lifestyle. Amenities will include a comfortable seating area in the lobby, a library, a coworking lounge with meeting rooms, an open garden on the cellar level, a fitness center, a sports simulation room — virtual golf, boxing and other sports — and landscaped communal outdoor space on the roof. There will also be a sauna, a steam room and a cold plunge as well as 24/7 doorman services. 

“Residents can walk immediately from the lobby down to the lower level. There will be a beautiful circular staircase about 8 feet in diameter to take us down to the cellar level,” said Robin Schneiderman, managing director at Brown Harris Stevens, the exclusive sales and marketing firm for Loggia NoMad. “The coworking lounge is meant to be a place where you can work during the day but also come hang out at night. There will be a bar area as well.”

Before Pro H and Vara took over the site about two and a half years ago, 842 Sixth Avenue was intended to be a 26-story hotel. Work stalled in 2020 amid the pandemic, and then the previous developer defaulted on the project’s debt, according to New York YIMBY. 

“It was supposed to be a modular hotel of all things,” Schneiderman said. “That never ended up happening, and so it was this opportunity to build ground up and really have scale. When you think about the market as a whole, it’s actually a relatively large project. We’re 28 stories up, so you really get the height, and then the light and air from three angles is unique.”

Amanda Schiavo can be reached at aschiavo@commercialoberver.com.