Hudson Square Properties, a collaboration between Trinity Church Wall Street, Norges Bank Investment Management, and Hines, is celebrating the opening of 555 Greenwich, a 16-story, 270,000-square-foot office tower in Hudson Square. The project, designed by COOKFOX, integrates with the adjacent 345 Hudson Street, forming a full-block campus.
Halpern Real Estate Ventures has revealed a rendering for The Birch House, a six-story residential building at 49 Fisk Street in Jersey City‘s Hackensack Waterfront District. Designed by Minno & Wasko Architects and Planners, the structure will yield 337 units and 50,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor amenities. The project is located between West Side Avenue and Martorano Way.
The Soloviev Group has announced the inclusion of 513 affordable housing units within the proposed Freedom Plaza in Manhattan, significantly contributing to the city’s inclusionary housing efforts. Located from 38th to 41st Streets east of First Avenue and covering over six acres in Midtown East, the ambitious mixed-use development was already slated to feature 4.77 acres of green space, a museum, shopping and restaurants, and a hotel. Now with the inclusion of the affordable units, it also stands to be one of Manhattan’s largest inclusionary housing initiatives in more than a decade.
Foundation work is underway at 19 Rockwell Place, the site of a 27-story residential building in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Designed by Daniel Goldner Architects for Chesky Rosen under the 19 Rockwell Place LLC, the 304-foot-tall structure will yield 172 rental units in studio to two-bedroom layouts spread across 120,000 square feet. Elliot Lazarus from New York Developers & Management is overseeing construction and Stephanie Andrews from MNS is in charge of leasing for the project, which is situated between Fulton Street and Dekalb Avenue.
