Acacia Network and Phipps Houses recently celebrated the grand opening of Santaella Gardens, a 249-unit affordable housing property in the Soundview section of The Bronx. Located at 1230 Metcalf Avenue, available homes are reserved for individuals and households earning between 30 percent and 90 percent Area Median Income (AMI), as well as 25 units for the formerly homeless.
The affordable housing lottery has launched for 100 Lenox Road, an eight-story residential building in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Designed by S. Wieder Architect with Input Creative Studio as the interior design team and Beitel as the developer, the structure yields 95 residences. Available on NYC Housing Connect are 29 units for residents at 130 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $64,286 to $167,570.
Permits have been filed for an eight-story residential building at 1688 Weeks Avenue in Concourse, The Bronx. Located between East 173rd and East 174th Streets, the lot is near the 174th-175th Streets subway station, serviced by the B and D trains. Simcha Ludmir under the Weeks Capital Associates LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Work is nearing full completion on 111 West 57th Street as construction wraps up on the lower podium section of the 1,428-foot residential supertall in Midtown, Manhattan. Designed by SHoP Architects and developed by JDS Development, Property Markets Group, and Spruce Capital Partners, the 84-story skyscraper will yield 60 condominiums designed by Studio Sofield and marketed by The Corcoran Group. WSP is the structural engineer, Jaros, Baum & Bolles is the MEP engineer, R&R Scaffolding Ltd. provided the building maintenance unit (BMU) sitting atop the crown, RWDI consulted with the design of the dampening system, and BuroHappold Engineering is the façade consultant for the tower, which is located between Sixth and Seventh Avenues on Billionaires’ Row.
Construction is now underway on 282-286 Grand Street, a seven-story residential building on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The will yield a mix of rental apartments, amenity spaces, and commercial space.
