Posted Dec 6, 2013, 1:58 AM
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http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/pr2...12-05-13.shtml
HPD COMMISSIONER VISNAUSKAS ANNOUNCES DEVELOPMENT TEAM TO BUILD 1,193 NEW APARTMENTS IN SECOND PHASE OF HUNTER’S POINT SOUTH MEGA PROJECT
December 5, 2013
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NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) Commissioner RuthAnne Visnauskas announced today that a development team consisting of TF Cornerstone and Selfhelp has been selected to build Phase II of the City’s massive Hunter’s Point South development. The developers were chosen through a competitive Request for Proposals (RFP). The site, referred to as Parcel C, located in Long Island City, Queens and bounded by Borden Avenue to the north, 2nd Street to the east, 54th Avenue to the south, and Center Boulevard to the west, will be developed into two high-rise buildings with a total of 1,193 new apartments. Of the total, 796 apartments will be affordable, with 100 of those units reserved for low-income senior citizens. The remainder of the apartments will be market-rate. Phase II will also feature a fitness facility, rooftop gardens and decks, children’s playroom, an on-site Senior recreational center and other amenities.
"We are excited to be working with TF Cornerstone and Selfhelp to build this next phase of the largest affordable housing development undertaken since the 1970s,"said HPD Commissioner RuthAnne Visnauskas. "From our most vulnerable populations to those in our middle-class, the challenges of finding an affordable home and the cost of living with rent burden are experiences that many New Yorkers share. This second phase of Hunter’s Point South will create nearly 800 affordable apartments, in a mixed-income community, new space for local arts and community groups, and new opportunity for economic growth. But most important, it will be a place where our senior citizens will have rents they can afford and supportive services, and where hardworking moderate- and middle-income New York families can put down roots and grow with this vibrant and flourishing neighborhood.”
Consisting of a total of more than 1,200,000-square-feet, development of Parcel C will create 1,193 new apartments with a mix of studio, one- , two- ,and three-bedroom units. Of 796 affordable apartments, 696 units will be targeted to moderate- and middle-income families with household incomes ranging from 105% of Area Median Income (AMI) to 155% AMI, which is equivalent to $111,670 to $141,735 per year for a family of four. Roughly 50% of the moderate- and middle-income affordable units are expected to be a mix of larger family-sized two- and three-bedroom apartments.
Designed by Office of Design & Architecture, with SLCE Architects, the proposal creates two new iconic towers to enhance the Queens skyline with stepped terraces that echo the Art Deco skyscrapers of Manhattan. The tower to the north will be 41 floors and the tower to the south will be 36 floors. The design incorporates numerous community green spaces throughout the different levels of the building, including two urban farming plateaus.
Hunter’s Point South site C is the second phase of what will become the largest affordable housing development in New York City since the early 1970s when Co-op City and Starrett City were completed. In 2009 the City acquired the entire 30-acre Hunter’s Point South site from the Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey at the cost of $100 million dollars. Phase I which includes Parcels A and B is currently under construction and will provide 925 permanently affordable units when complete. When the entire multi-phase Hunter’s Point South development project is completed the City will have added approximately 5,000 new units of housing to the Queens waterfront, a minimum of 60 percent or 3,000 units of which will be reserved as affordable for low-, moderate- and middle-income families.
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http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/1...oint_south.php
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