Horsley said of the facade, "The pale green probably looked great in pastel renderings, but in reality, it is a bit weak-looking." Features Central Park Place has 300 condominium apartments, which range from studio apartments to two-bedroom units. When the building opened, the apartments ranged from $200,000 to $4 million. There are four penthouses, the largest of which is a unit on the 53rd floor. The tower contains a swimming pool, a residents' health and fitness club, a party room, a residents' dining room, and four rooms for residents' guests. Judith Stockman and Associates was hired to design the lobby. The tower's developer William Zeckendorf Jr. wanted the design to relate to Central Park, so Stockman constructed the lobby with wooden wainscoting, marble surfaces, and brass ornamentation. For his projects, Zeckendorf generally only accepted final drawings from architects after his interior design team approved them. For example, at Central Park Place, the bay windows were redesigned after their original dimensions were found to be too small. History Development Zeckendorf started assembling the site on Eighth Avenue between 57th and 58th Streets in 1982. A joint venture of Zeckendorf Companies, Omni Properties, and K.G. Land planned a $135 million development containing of office space and of ground-floor stores, as well as 310 apartments, composed of studios and one- and two-bedroom units. By 1984, the media reported that Zeckendorf's organization was planning a 70-story tower for the site. The development was one of several projects being planned in the area at the time. For the project, Zeckendorf destroyed two buildings on the southwest corner of Eighth Avenue and 58th Street, including a single room occupancy hotel called the Alpine Hotel, and rebuilt a third structure. Under the original plans, the tower would have occupied a larger site. All of the air rights above the Alpine Hotel would have been transferred to Central Park Place, allowing the tower to be erected with a larger maximum floor area, and thereby allowing a 70-story building. The project encountered delays after the city government enacted an 18-month moratorium on demolishing single room occupancy residential structures in 1985. Zeckendorf and his partners wanted to commence construction on the residential tower, Central Park Place, as soon as possible. Accordingly, the group paid the city $2.29 million to demolish the Alpine Hotel, a building they already owned. The residential tower and office components were split into separate projects to