80 West 67th Street — Extell Upper West Side Supertall

The Upper West Side has been quiet on supertall filings for years. Extell just changed that.

Gary Barnett’s Extell Development filed permits on April 22 for an 86-story, 1,198-foot residential tower at 80 West 67th Street on the former ABC/Disney campus, on the corner of Columbus Avenue. If built as filed, the project would be the tallest building on the Upper West Side and the second-tallest Extell project after Central Park Tower, the firm’s 1,550-foot Billionaires’ Row supertall completed in 2019.

Project Scope

The filing covers 1,214,792 square feet across 86 floors. The program is 430 residential units averaging 2,766 square feet — large condos rather than studio inventory — plus approximately 25,000 square feet of retail and a 187-stall parking garage. The structure is concrete-based, matching Extell’s preferred system from Central Park Tower and 217 West 57th, which gives the firm continuity on its supply chain and trade base.

The site is the former American Broadcasting Company headquarters campus, which Extell acquired from Disney in 2018 for $1.155 billion after ABC News and the network operations consolidated at the Disney-owned 7 Hudson Square. Extell already developed 50 West 66th Street, a 775-foot tower on a portion of the same campus, completed in 2024. The new filing covers the western portion of the assemblage.

The architect of record has not been disclosed in the permit filing. Extell has historically split its supertall work between Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill (Central Park Tower) and Snøhetta and SOM (the Nordstrom Tower base and 50 West 66th). Industry watchers expect a similar caliber design team for 80 West 67th, but Extell has not publicly named the firm.

Construction sequencing depends on a few open items: completing demolition of the remaining ABC studio buildings on the parcel, finalizing zoning lot mergers with adjacent properties, and pricing the structural steel and concrete packages against the current tariff and PPI environment. Permits filed in April don’t bind a groundbreak date; Extell typically takes 12 to 18 months from filing to vertical construction on its supertall projects.

Why It Matters

For the Upper West Side, this is a skyline event. The neighborhood’s existing height ceiling has been the 775-foot 50 West 66th Street — itself controversial when filed in 2018. At 1,198 feet, the new Extell filing is 275 feet shorter than the Empire State Building and roughly 50% taller than the previous neighborhood maximum. Community board pushback is expected to focus on shadow studies over Central Park, on the Lincoln Center cultural corridor, and on the Riverside Boulevard view corridor — all standard issues for Upper West Side supertalls.

For the broader Manhattan luxury condo market, the project tests whether the supertall residential thesis still works after a brutal 2022–2024 stretch for Billionaires’ Row sales. Central Park Tower sold through slowly. 432 Park has seen lawsuits over building defects. 111 West 57th continues to grind through inventory. Extell’s bet here is that the Upper West Side delivers a different buyer profile — established Manhattan families rather than international cash — and that 430 units at lower per-foot pricing than Billionaires’ Row gives the absorption math more room.

The economics are still tariff-exposed. At 1.2 million square feet of building area, the structural steel, glazing, and aluminum packages alone will run hundreds of millions. The same input-cost environment driving up commercial bid sheets (covered in our news report on ABC’s April input-price data) will apply directly to 80 West 67th’s hard costs.

First closings — assuming the project moves to construction on Extell’s typical timeline — would land in 2031 or 2032.

Project Team & Details