Construction has topped out on Edgemere Commons’ second all-affordable housing structure at 5119 Beach Channel Drive in Far Rockaway, Queens. Designed by Aufgang Architects and developed by Tishman Speyer’s TS Communities, the company’s affordable housing development platform, the 247,000-square-foot structure will yield 237 rental apartments in studio to three-bedroom layouts, with 36 reserved for the formerly homeless, as well as 8,000 square feet of retail space and 7,500 square feet of community facility space. The building, also know as Edgemere Commons Building B1, is situated between Beach 50th and Beach 53rd Streets.
Recent photographs show the reinforced concrete superstructure built to its pinnacle, and metal frame studs and insulation boards enclosing the lower half of the building. The final brick and metal paneling has yet to begin installation.
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
The below renderings depict aerial and street-level perspectives of the entire development.
Aerial view of Edgemere Commons – Aufgang Architects
Aerial view of publicly accessible outdoor spaces at Edgemere Commons- Aufgang Architects
Street view of Edgemere Commons – Aufgang Architects
Edgemere Commons is located on the 9.34-acre site of the former Peninsula Hospital, which permanently closed in 2012. The overall master plan was unanimously approved by the New York City Council in November 2019 and will comprise 2.2 million square feet with 2,050 rental apartments, including 237 residences set aside for senior citizens, 973 parking spaces, 38,000 square feet of open public space, 77,000 square feet of community space, and 72,000 square feet of retail space for a supermarket, a fitness center, and food and beverage tenants.
Edgemere Commons is expected to create 350 jobs in construction, 650 permanent jobs, and generate $1.5 billion in economic activity. TS Communities secured $196.8 million in financing that includes a mix of tax-exempt bonds, traditional construction debt, subsidy loans from the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development and the New York City Housing Development Corporation, and low-income housing tax credit equity. This figure also includes $138.6 million from Wells Fargo.
The Arker Companies and Slate Property Group were in charge of developing the first building, and Tishman Speyer will develop the remaining nine structures in the future.
Edgemere Commons Building B1 is anticipated to open in 2025.
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The house is made of brick with beautiful hedges, and flowers lining the front that I’m just impressed: Thanks to Michael Young.
NYCHA buildings ( across the street) have more light and air than Edgemere North. You move to Rockaway not to the West Side of Manhattan, for light, air and a view of the ocean. I saw this crazy scheme published in the Wave a newspaper and approved by Community Board 14.I could not believe they would really build it . Good luck getting people to pay to live in a dense urban environment out here in Rockaway.
This not low income at all they will sprinkle a lil bit of low income the rest is history they never in decades wanted to build in farrockaway after COVID these greedy hungry money hungry people just want money money money they don’t care about humanity but money so gentrification is what they want to do in all poor areas in NYC and across United States
I call this the concrete jungle, building such huge contributions when the story of far Rockaway said that it wasn’t supposed to be populated! We are sinking people!!! So start packing to move to a higher grounds!!!