Ground Breaks on $92 Million New Animal Care Center in Baychester, The Bronx

6:30 am on May 25, 2023 By Vanessa Londono

Ground recently broke on a new animal care center in Baychester, The Bronx. The $92 million ground-up development will yield 50,000 square feet and house admissions, adoptions, medical services, and boarding for 70 dogs, 140 cats, 30 rabbits, and 20 animals of other species. The new animal center is part of the City’s goal to maintain a full-service animal shelter in each borough. The City’s Animal Care Centers are a non-profit organization that serve as the city’s open-admissions animal-shelter system contracted and overseen by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) and operated by Animal Care Centers of NYC (ACC).

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420 Carroll Street Tops Out in Gowanus, Brooklyn 

8:00 am on May 24, 2023 By Michael Young and Matt Pruznick

Construction has topped out on the tallest building at 420 Carroll Street, a two-tower residential complex in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Designed by FXCollaborative and developed by Domain Companies, the project consists of a 20-story, 224-foot-tall tower and 15-story sibling and will yield 360 units with 25 percent reserved for affordable housing, as well as 27,500 square feet of retail space, 7,700 square feet of “Gowanus Mix” space pursuant to the 82-block rezoning of the district, and a new public promenade along the Gowanus Canal. Studio Mainer is the interior designer, Scape is the landscape architect, and Mega Contracting Group is the general contractor for the development, which is rising from a trapezoidal plot bound by Carroll Street to the north, the Powerhouse Arts building and its parking lot to the south, and the Gowanus Canal to the west.

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