Permits have been filed for a 21-story shelter and community services building at 215 East 45th Street in Midtown East, Manhattan. Located between Second and Third Avenues, the lot is a short walk to Grand Central subway station, serviced by the 4, 5, 6, and 7 trains. Nonprofit organization Project Renewal currently operates the City-owned women’s shelter in the seven-story building on the site. The City is using the ULURP process to deliver the site to Project Renewal, who will be the owner of the site when the financing is closed at the end of this year.
The proposed 217-foot-tall development will yield 135,040 square feet, with 113,707 square feet designated for community facility for a women’s shelter, supportive and affordable housing, and a primary care clinic serving women in the building residents and the surrounding community. The building will have a purpose-built 171-bed shelter for women; and 131 units of permanent housing with 79 supportive units, 51 affordable units, and one unit for a superintendent, on-site social services, and a primary care medical clinic for residents and the broader community. The shelter will be on floors 2 through 6 and the permanent housing will be on floors 7 through 21. The concrete-based structure will also have a 30-foot-long rear yard.
Dattner Architects is listed as the architect of record.
Demolition permits have not been filed yet. An estimated completion date has not been announced.
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something is wrong here
There is a perfect sandstone building standing here.
Why would you demolish this building?
Can’t they just reuse/readapt what’s there?
The building shown in the photo is incorrect, its actually the adjacent building at 227 East 45th, which is a well-maintained commercial building and isn’t going anywhere. 215 is actually a 6-story, existing city-owned shelter which will be redeveloped into a women’s shelter run by Project Renewal.
The sandstone building pictured is NOT the one being demolished. That would be the 7-8 story brownstone building next to it.
Skyscrapers of the 20’s and 30’s were aspirational and inspiring. This proposal looks like a mediocre suburban office park or worse: industrial park standing on end. It has no grace, no charm, and, is far to bulky to ever compliment the city. Surely the architects and the developers can to better and present a proposal that allows for the next generation to dream.
This is literally a supportive housing building for the formerly homeless, being built by a non-profit. Your comment is the epitome of looking a gift horse in the mouth.