The owner of the Upper East Side lot where a suicidal doctor blew up his townhouse will seek city approval to put up an “eco-friendly” residence that she expects to sell for as much as $30 million.

Plans for the site would be submitted later this month to the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission, a representative for the owner and developer, Janna Bullock of the Russian Investment Group, said. Earlier this year, Ms. Bullock paid $8.3 million for the property, on which she plans to build a single-family home featuring a modern-style stone façade, an all-glass elevator, a Japanese-style courtyard garden, a landscaped roof, and a subterranean swimming pool.

In July 2006, a 66-year-old physician in the middle of a messy divorce, Nicholas Bartha, leveled his brownstone by tampering with its gas line, police said. Bartha died from injuries sustained during the explosion, which also hurt several passers-by.

In the still empty lot, now littered with garbage and debris, Ms. Bullock intends to erect a five-story, 8,000-square-foot townhouse that meets the sustainability and energy efficiency standards of the U.S. Green Building Council.

The Upper East Side has been home to some hard-fought landmark battles, most recently developer Aby Rosen’s plan to build a 30-story glass addition on top of the Parke Bernet Gallery on 77th Street and Madison Avenue, which was eventually defeated.

The executive director of the Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts, Seri Worden, said the preservation group she heads is looking forward to engaging the architects on the townhouse proposal. “We welcome modern interventions, as long as it’s done appropriately for a historic district,” Ms. Worden, who has yet to see the plans for the site, said.

A construction manager on the project, Hans Linderoth, said the developer’s plan includes a rainwater storage tank and a geothermal pump for heating and cooling the home. “It’s targeted at well-educated professionals — sophisticated people who are very conscious about what sustainable design is,” he said of prospective buyers.

The proposal calls for an exterior crafted of tan stone, a color and material that Mr. Linderoth said conforms to the block and the neighborhood. “We hope this is going to become a new landmark that people identify with,” he said. “It’s so rare that you have an opportunity to build a new brownstone in the city.”

Jed Garfield, a real estate broker with a boutique firm specializing in New York City townhouses, Leslie J. Garfield, said Upper East Side homes south of 72nd Street and west of Park Avenue are some of the city’s most expensive properties. It is not unrealistic for such a townhouse to fetch as much as $30 million in the current market, he said.

“I think it’s the proximity to Midtown and the notion that you could walk to the office without breaking a sweat, not that anyone who lives in that neighborhood does,” Mr. Garfield said. “And if you’re living near Ronald Perelman and Edgar Bronfman Jr.” — the billionaire businessman and the beverage scion, respectively — “you’re in rarefied company, and that has value to a consumer.”

As the lot is situated in the Upper East Side Historic District, the realization of Ms. Bullock’s project is contingent on the approval of the landmarks commission. For new construction within historic districts, the commission looks for height and massing consistent with other buildings on similar-size lots, its spokeswoman, Elisabeth de Bourbon, said. “The scale, the materials, and details should have some relationship to buildings in the historic district, and that relationship can be abstract or literal,” she said.

The Bridgehampton-based firm of Preston T. Phillips, in conjunction with Abelow Sherman Architects LLC of New York, designed the proposed townhouse, and Severud Associates and P.A. Collins P.E. Consulting Engineers, both of New York, are the project’s structural and mechanical engineers, respectively, Mr. Linderoth said.

Representatives of those firms met informally with members of the landmarks commission in recent weeks, Mr. Linderoth said. Once the plans are filed with the commission, it could be six weeks before the project is discussed at a public hearing.

Ms. Bullock, who grew up in St. Petersburg, Russia, develops residential and commercial sites in New York and Russia. Her Russian Investment Group is also developing a “green” townhouse on East 82nd Street, near Fifth Avenue.