In late 2014, the Landmarks Preservation Commission approved the 45-acre residential redevelopment of the dilapidated 96-acre New York City Farm Colony campus, located centrally on Staten Island. Last week, the City Council approved plans to sell 45 acres of the property to NFC Associates, the New York Times reports. The Staten Island-based developer will rehabilitate five existing buildings, demolish five others, build 14 multi-unit townhouses, and also build three six-story residential buildings. Dubbed Landmark Colony, there will be a total of 344 condominiums, 34 of which will be sold at below-market rates, but all of which will be home to people 55 and older. Of the 45 redeveloped acres, 17 acres will be landscaped public space, and 17,000 square feet of commercial space is planned. Vengoechea & Boyland Architecture is designing, and units will begin to come online next year.
Six-story buildings at the Landmark Colony, image via Curbed
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Must be one of the few areas below the S.I. Expressway where apartment buildings are permitted. R3-2 zoning in the NA-1 area.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/zone/map26c.pdf
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/zone/map27a.pdf
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/zone/zh_r3-2.shtml
The zoning for the Farm Colony is R3-2, but I’m sure the city will upzone it if necessary.
This is a done deal but shouldn’t the upzoning been taken care of first? ‘Upzoning’ is a dirty word on Staten Island.
Just noticed this – sort of buried in the 26c zoning map is a proposed zoning change (dated 10/19/15) for part of the Farm Colony site along Brielle Avenue to be ‘rezoned by establishing within an existing R3-2 a C1-3 District’.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/zone/sketchmaps/skz150422zmr.pdf
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/zone/zh_c1_c2_overlays.shtml
Yup, the City Council approved it. http://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=2543700&GUID=D2229B99-2E51-4283-B909-BF6E1545E245&FullText=1
Thanks for that info, but wasn’t it submitted by an S.I. councilmember?