Förena

Morris Adjmi's facade for Förena trades the curtain wall for warm brick and a disciplined window grid — a contemporary building that reads as native to the masonry context of Chelsea and the Village rather than imposed on it. The result is a 12-story building with a textured, tactile presence on the avenue.

The 50 residences run from one to three bedrooms, with many offering private outdoor space. Interiors are finished to a high specification: custom kitchens with state-of-the-art appliances, Italian marble throughout, and the expansive windows and tall ceilings that define the Scandinavian-light design intent. Pricing at launch began in the high-$1-million range for the smaller homes, scaling up through the larger layouts and the building's penthouses.

Förena runs as a full-service new condominium. A 24-hour attended lobby anchors the staffing, and the amenity program is scaled to the building: a fitness center, a residents' lounge opening to an outdoor Zen garden, and a rooftop terrace — a wellness-and-social set tuned to the design-conscious downtown buyer.

As a condominium, ownership is flexible. Purchases clear through a condominium right-of-first-refusal rather than a co-op board interview, financing is not capped the way it is at co-ops, and pied-à-terre, investor, and LLC purchases are customary. Common charges, transfer provisions, and house rules follow the building's offering plan, which we help buyers read.

The live sales record for Förena is auto-generated on this site's /sales view from the building's BBL. As a 50-unit condominium that completed sell-out from a new-development launch, turnover in the early years runs at a measured pace — a handful of resales annually once the building is fully occupied. Pricing sits in the design-led downtown condominium tier, with value driven by floor, light, outdoor space, and the Adjmi pedigree. Treat any specific figure as something to confirm against the current recorded record.

This is new construction with the flexibility that implies. Financing is not capped the way it is at co-ops, the purchase process is condominium-standard — a right-of-first-refusal rather than a board package — and pied-à-terre and investor purchases are customary. Buyers should evaluate floor and exposure carefully given the building's corner siting, weigh which homes carry private outdoor space, and read the offering plan for common charges, the tax picture, and house rules. The architectural quality and the three-neighborhood location are the durable value here.

Lead with the design and the corner. A Morris Adjmi building at the Chelsea–Flatiron–Village seam is a genuine differentiator in a market crowded with anonymous glass. Benchmark to design-driven downtown condominiums, not to commodity new construction. The condominium structure is a selling point — a faster, more predictable closing than a co-op resale — and outdoor space and light command a premium in this segment, so position those homes accordingly. The 14th Street transit access and walkability to three neighborhoods round out the pitch.

If you're considering Förena, also evaluate these nearby downtown condominiums:

• 100 West 15th Street — Chelsea condominium nearby
• 121 West 19th Street — Chelsea boutique condominium
• 2 Fifth Avenue — Greenwich Village cooperative at Washington Square
• 24 Fifth Avenue — prewar Village cooperative
• 141 Fifth Avenue — Flatiron condominium conversion

The Roebling Team at Compass works across Chelsea, the Flatiron district, and Greenwich Village — the three neighborhoods that meet at this corner. We publish this profile because buyers and sellers at design-led new construction deserve building-specific intelligence: what the architecture delivers, how the condominium operates, and where the pricing sits.

If you're considering a purchase or sale at Förena, a 30-minute consultation is the right starting point.