9. Essex Crossing
Estimated Cost: $ 1.1 Billion
This massive development will soon be home to about two million square feet of residential, commercial, and community space in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Plans say it will be home to about 1,000 mixed-income apartments. Like most of the current construction in the city, it will be modern and full of glass. Recent announcements of a Target store coming to the location has drawn mixed reactions.