NEW YORK | MID/LOW RISES | General Developments Updates/Compilation

[chris08876]

Project: 425 East 161st Street

Bridge Mental Health & Housing has filed applications to construct a nine-story and 59-unit “community facility with sleeping accommodations” for the vacant lot of 425 East 161st Street, in Morrisania; MAP is designing.

Project: 407 East 160th Street

An anonymous LLC has filed applications to construct an eight-story and 39-unit residential building of 24,302 square feet at the vacant lot of 407 East 160th Street, in Melrose; the site’s single-story predecessor was demolished in 2006, and Badaly & Badaly is designing.

Recently Completed: 25 Washington Avenue

Steiner Studios have become the largest film and television production facilities outside of Hollywood. Located within the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the facilities will soon include the renovated 25 Washington Avenue—a historic building constructed for the Navy in the 1940s, The 275,000 square foot, brick-clad structure is undergoing a complete interior renovation, replacement of windows and mechanical systems, and the addition of new freight elevators and structural interventions to accommodate column free studios. CUNY Brooklyn College and Steiner Studios have partnered to establish a film school to be located within the building. The project has been designed for LEED Silver Certification.

Project: CAMBA GARDENS PHASE II

We are designing a new residential development that will transform a 97,000 square foot site into 293 units of affordable and supportive housing with facilities and amenities that promote sustainable, healthy living and wellness. The building will be a “U” shaped structure, ranging from 5 to 9 stories enclosing a courtyard facing CAMBA Gardens I to the east. The courtyard and other open spaces will be landscaped and developed as amenity spaces for the residents. The development will include multi-purpose spaces for social services, adult education, health services, indoor/outdoor recreation, and the arts. The project will participate in the Enterprise Green Communities Initiative, NYSERDA Multi-Family Performance Program and LEED for Homes program.

AREA
257,000 sf
293 units
COMPLETION: 2016

Recently Completed: Courtlandt Corners

Located in the Melrose Commons Urban Renewal Area in the South Bronx, Courtlandt Corners is a two building complex and the second phase of a redevelopment by Phipps Houses that began on the adjacent site with Courtlandt Corners. Designed under the NYC Quality Housing Program, the building’s setbacks and bays provide a residential scale. Brick colors and patterns address contextual issues, while metal panels provide a contemporary architectural expression, and together they create a welcoming residential character. The 217 studios to three bedroom units have generous layouts and large windows to provide abundant natural light, and are arranged around a courtyard created by the two buildings. Courtlandt Corners participated in the Enterprise Green Communities Initiative and NYSERDA Multifamily Performance Program.

Recently Completed: ROCKAWAY RISING

The FAR ROC: For a Resilient Rockaway competition explored best practices and innovative strategies for the planning, design and construction of resilient and sustainable developments in waterfront areas. The site, located in a FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area Zone A section of the Rockaways, experienced significant storm surge inundation during Hurricane Sandy.

Project: 84 North Third Street

Yesterday afternoon, Marvel Architects filed for a new building permit at 84 North Third Street (also with 112-123 Metropolitan Avenue addresses), to be developed by New Jersey-based Anthony Tristani’s 94 North Street Realty LLC, per the application.

The building would reach seven stories and 70 feet into the air, and contain 105,000 square feet of total construction floor area. Of that, nearly 60,000 square feet would be devoted to residential use (divided among 75 apartments), with more than 13,000 square feet of commercial space, presumably ground floor retail.

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1) http://www.dattner.com/portfolio/25-washington-avenue/
2) http://www.dattner.com/portfolio/cam...dens-phase-ii/
3) http://www.dattner.com/portfolio/courtlandt-crescent/
4) http://www.yimbynews.com/2014/09/wha...th-street.html

[Perklol]

that building on post #308 is a bit too much...

[Perklol]

Great updates Chris!

Is there a thread for the buildings on post #310?

[chris08876]

Originally Posted by Eveningsong

Great updates Chris!

Is there a thread for the buildings on post #310?

I haven't seen an individual one for it. Possibly in the highline thread (some info), but its probably buried somewhere. That post though is the latest update on that project.

I try to not include duplicates in this thread, and if I update past information, I tend to quote myself and just add the update.

[chris08876]

Project: 149 Church Street

The permit indicates a total construction floor area of 67,000 square feet, with 47,000 square feet for residential use, and another 4,000 square feet for retail space at the bottom. There will be 24 apartments, and with an average unit size of 2,000 square feet, we’d be shocked if it were anything but condos.

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http://www.yimbynews.com/2014/09/per...-building.html

[chris08876]

Project:

CUNY is building a new building and excavation work is almost complete.

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[chris08876]

Melrose Commons North Site C, 12-Story Affordable Housing in the Bronx

The project at 432 East 162nd Street, also known as Melrose Commons North Side C, will contain buildings with nearly 260,000 square feet of floor space, reaching a peak of 12 stories and 118 feet as the project curves around around East 161st Street across from where it meets Elton Avenue.

The larger affordable family housing building will have 203 apartments spread over 197,000 square feet of floor space, per the per filing, for an average unit size just under 1,000 square feet, plus a bit over 8,000 square feet of retail space at its base. The Department of City Planning requires off-street parking even for below-market projects in most of the outer boroughs – nevermind that the old pre-war buildings, burned and abandoned during urban decline, had none – and the larger building therefore includes 50 garage and surface lot parking spaces.

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http://www.yimbynews.com/2014/09/rev...the-bronx.html

[Submariner]

Wow...a concert and construction going on in Times Square. I can't wait to walk through it!

[mrnyc]

a longtime hole in the ground eyesore is finally going up...

village green west
245 w14th st
it sez apts from $2.85M to $9.5M

[Perklol]

Nice building #335

Come to think of it, this seems like the first affordable housing building in the Bronx?

[chris08876]

Originally Posted by Eveningsong

Nice building #335

Come to think of it, this seems like the first affordable housing building in the Bronx?

Theres several with respect to affordable housing, but the key note is that it will only increase dramatically. DeBlasio is focusing on certain neighborhoods, and changing the zoning to make affordable housing quicker and easier. Expect a lot more construction in the Bronx. Both on the midrise level, and highrise level. As a refuge from the expensive prices of Manhattan, I see it as the next boom town. Certain projects such as "La Centra" will add 1000's of units. Several more in the pipeline.

Some of the changes or updates with affordable housing could be seen here: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...=211193&page=4

[chris08876]

Project: Pelham Park Manor

At 1680 Pelham Parkway, on the eastern end of the grassy cross-Bronx thoroughfare, a new building permit application was filed on Monday for a rare (albeit increasingly less so) 130-unit apartment building, to be rented out largely at market rates. The permit was filed by Badaly Architects on behalf of the Stagg Group, a builder active in neighborhoods across the borough for nearly 20 years. The project will be branded as Pelham Park Manor.

Project: 123 Melrose Street

Now, plans have been filed for a new building set to rise on the southernmost block, bounded by Melrose Street, Stanwix, Noll and Evergreen Avenue. There, at 123 Melrose Street, Read Property Group plans to build an eight-story, 385-unit residential building, according to a new building permit application filed this morning. The filing is just one part of what will eventually be a 10-building complex housing nearly 1,000 apartments, 30 percent of which will be let at below-market rates, according to the developer’s agreement with the city.

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http://www.yimbynews.com/2014/10/rev...-building.html
http://www.yimbynews.com/2014/10/per...-bushwick.html

[mrnyc]

Originally Posted by Eveningsong

Nice building #335

Come to think of it, this seems like the first affordable housing building in the Bronx?

there is quite a lot of new affordable housing bldgs like that that have gone up in the south bronx or are soon to come. that look seems to be the new style. check out more sobro projects like 'via verde' or the new housing around the boricua vertical college tower, for example.

[CCs77]

Originally Posted by Eveningsong

Nice building #335

Come to think of it, this seems like the first affordable housing building in the Bronx?

Au contraire, The Bronx has been building a lot of affordable housing in the last pair of decades. It may be leading in that matter over other boroughs, with not only a lot housing being built, but also with some high quality examples. Many of the buildings or complexes built in The Bronx are 100 % affordable, contrasting with other parts, where they usually only have a percentage of affordable component. Obviously, it helps that it had some of the cheapest property values, so, even at market rates, the cost of aparments are lower than in other boroughs.
And one good thing that came with that is it helped revitalized bombed out neighborhoods, such as the areas of Morrisania and Melrose of the South Bronx. Here you have two GE images, comparing the area between 2001 and 2011, in just one decade, they added thousands of new units on a former desolate area, with thousands more coming on the next years.


2001




2011








One of the stand out examples is Via Verde in Melrose, completed in 2011 or 12, It has won some architechtural awards.
Some pictures:




http://www.viaverdenyc.com/





http://urbanomnibus.net/2013/07/the-...s-roundup-209/



http://www.aia.org/practicing/awards...ards/ViaVerde/





http://www10.aeccafe.com/blogs/arch-...aw-architects/

[mrnyc]

^ yep and thats just for starters.

wait until they build out the 'la central' project on the slivers of land just below via verde at westchester ave.

all together its known as the melrose commons urban renewal area.

on-deck for the south bronx:

http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?t=208960

[chris08876]

I think Eveningstars comment came at the perfect time:

Affordable housing he will get!
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Hundreds of Bronx affordable housing units rising in Tremont, West Farms


The 13-story Tremont Renaissance will break ground soon at East Tremont Avenue between Webster and Park Avenues. Its developer, Radame Perez, told the local community board that 100% of the 256 rental units are set aside to those earning under the area's median income.

The center of the Bronx is about to become affordable housing central.

Community Board 6 will weigh in Wednesday on two mammoth residential developments planned for a recently rezoned stretch of East Tremont and West Farms.

They’ll join Compass Residences, a 10-building, 1,300-unit mega-complex being developed by former City Council Speaker Gifford Miller, already under construction in the fast-changing area.

All told, the developments promise to add hundreds of below-market-rate apartments in the neighborhood.

The 75-block stretch had been largely inhabited by lowrise warehouses, auto repair shops and factories until 2011, when the city paved the way for housing and mixed-use development.

“It really has created a new kind of neighborhood for the central Bronx,” said Radame Perez, chief operating officer of Mastermind Development.

Perez’s company is building a 13-story, 256-unit below-market-rate apartment building on private land at East Tremont Ave. between Webster and Park Aves.

The $90 million, 350,000- square-foot complex, dubbed “Tremont Renaissance,” boasts a fitness center, children’s play area and rooftop sun promenades, Perez, 38, said.

All of its units are "priced for moderate income families earning 37%, 57% and 80%, 90% of area median income," Perez's company told the Community Board.

A few blocks east, another development team is building a $70 million, two-building complex on a vacant parcel at the confluence of West Farms Road, Boston Road and Longfellow Ave.

That fully affordable project — led by developer Pravin B. Anajwala Tower and the Best Development Group — is scheduled to break ground in January.

One 14-story building and one eight-story building will bring a total of 181 apartments to the area.

Both developments will seek retail tenants to lease space on the ground floor.

The local community board was recently assigned a temporary urban planner to study the effects of the new buildings.

Members of CB 6 have expressed excitement for the area’s new look — but trepidation about the prospect of dealing with the resulting traffic.

The 10-building mega-complex Compass Residences is already being built on a former industrial street hard by the Sheridan Expressway. At least 237 of those units will be below-market-rate. Miller has promised to maximize the affordability of the project.

“This community is going to be the envy of the Bronx,” said Ivine Galarza, the board’s district manager. “But we want to find out how we will fit of all of the buildings."

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BY BEN KOCHMAN NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/...cle-1.1965495#

[chris08876]

Thread Update:

1) Checked all 14 pages and fixed a couple of broken links (Overtime hosting servers tend to drop images) and updated some titles.
2) If theres any errors in any of them, or in the future if there is a broken link such as an image for example that anybody runs across, let me know.

- Chris E.

[Busy Bee]

Originally Posted by chris08876

I think Eveningstars comment came at the perfect time:

Affordable housing he will get!
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Hundreds of Bronx affordable housing units rising in Tremont, West Farms


The 13-story Tremont Renaissance will break ground soon at East Tremont Avenue between Webster and Park Avenues. Its developer, Radame Perez, told the local community board that 100% of the 256 rental units are set aside to those earning under the area's median income.



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BY BEN KOCHMAN NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/...cle-1.1965495#

Hurray for the Bx as usual but this is a bit of a mess architecturally.

[chris08876]

Project:

Eighth Avenue has long been a main commercial street in Sunset Park, with its storefronts supplying the surrounding residential sidestreets with local retail. But in recent decades, it’s become the main drag for one of New York City’s two largest Chinatowns (the other being Flushing, in Queens; the Manhattan original is now third), and has subsequently acquired a commensurate demand for commercial space.

Architecture beyond the gentrifying fringe in New York City can sometimes be subpar, but commercial projects, as everywhere else, tend to be higher quality than residential developments. This building, with its glassy façade and simple white and gray panels between floors, looks to follow the same rule.

The ground floor and mezzanine will contain 13,000 square feet of retail space, topped by 42,500 square feet of medical office condos. The three-level underground parking garage will have enough space for around 150 cars, far more than required by code.

The developer is Andy Wong with Flushing-based Golden 8th Avenue Realty Corp., a firm that appears to have owned the land since the 1980s.

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http://www.yimbynews.com/2014/10/rev...-building.html

[chris08876]

Project: 33 Lincoln Road

Construction is moving along at the eight-story, 87 unit apartment building at 33 Lincoln Road in Prospect Lefferts Gardens. The site is a long L-shaped lot that abuts the B/Q/S tracks and faces both Lincoln Road and Flatbush Avenue. The image above is from the Flatbush side of the development where foundation work is under way.

The building is being developed by Anderson Associates and had faced delays because of issues with obtaining financing through the city Housing Development Corporation’s New Opportunities Program. Now it is being funded by private investment. However 20 percent of the units will still be set aside for those making a maximum of 60 percent of the area median income.

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