New renderings have been released for 147-27 Archer Avenue, a proposed 20-story mixed-use building in Jamaica, Queens. Designed by IMC Architecture and developed by Meyer Chetrit of The Chetrit Group, the 231-foot-tall structure will span 274,837 square feet and yield 359 rental units with an average scope of 653 square feet, as well as 23,108 square feet of commercial space, 17,194 square feet of community facility space, a cellar level, and 219 enclosed parking spaces. The residential program is set to include 119 income-restricted units. The 23,000-square-foot property is located between 147th and 148th Streets.
The renderings show the building rising from an expansive multi-story podium clad in charcoal-hued stone and topped with a landscaped terrace. The tower above is enclosed in beige and charcoal-hued stone framing a grid of half-arched double-height windows, with concave and convex corner pillars complementing the curves in the fenestration. The structure culminates in a landscaped roof deck surrounding a tall bulkhead with rounded fluting.
147-27 Archer Avenue. Designed by IMC Architecture.
The ground-floor retail space will largely occupy the southeastern half of the base along Archer Avenue, and the garage entrance along 147th Street will lead to the parking facility on the second floor, which is visible in the following rendering through the screened voids in the fenestration. The garage will feature 20-foot ceiling spans and parking stackers to maximize its capacity.
147-27 Archer Avenue. Designed by IMC Architecture.
The property was formerly occupied by an auto repair shop and surface-level parking lot, as seen in the below Google Street View image.
147-27 Archer Avenue in Jamaica, Queens via Google Maps
Residences are slated to begin on the third floor, where the property’s indoor and outdoor recreational areas will be located. A bank of four elevators will serve the tower.
The nearest subways from the site are the E, J, and Z trains at the Sutphin Boulevard-Archer Avenue-JFK Airport station to the north. Also nearby is the Jamaica station with access to the Long Island Rail Road and AirTran shuttle service to John F. Kennedy International Airport.
A construction timeline for 147-27 Archer Avenue has yet to be announced.
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What’s happing to all the auto repair shops and surface-level parking lots?
Wish to have owned one of these
They are worth much more as large apartment buildings
This is a really interesting design.
Fitter. Happier. More Productive.
My favorite—well, and The Beatles!
The New Brutalism. Still ugly concrete, but less brutal.
Some of the most beautiful buildings in history are concrete. Would you prefer a glass box?
It’s brick.
Please forgive my ignorance, as I am a neophyte regarding construction and building, but I don’t count 20 stories.
I think each window is 2 stories, but i hadn’t thought about it before you mentioned it!
It’s so beautiful that you could put it on the cover of a music CD, got permission and showed it off on social media: Thanks.