The struggling central Bronx neighborhoods of Mount Hope, Tremont, and West Farms are ripe for new construction, and the borough’s small developers are finally starting to take notice. One developer hopes to build a little four-story residential building at 1779 Weeks Avenue, just north of the Cross Bronx Expressway in Mount Hope.
Hollis, Queens-based US Premier Builders has filed applications for two two-family residential buildings at 923-935 East 222nd Street, in northern Williamsbridge, located five blocks from the 219th Street stop on the 2 and 5 trains. Each building will measure 2,400 square feet and stand three stories. In each building, one unit will be located on the ground floor while the second spans the upper two levels, and the units will average over 1,000 square feet apiece. Reza Khamcy’s Great Neck-based Icon Engineering is the applicant of record.
Property owner Sean Coyne has filed applications for a four-story, two-unit residential building at 1549 St. Lawrence Avenue, just south of Van Nest, located four blocks from the East 180th Street stop on the 2 and 5 trains. The building will measure just 2,673 square feet, and a single unit will be located on the ground floor, while the second will span the second and third floors; the fourth floor will house an enclosed terrace. Nikola Martinovic’s Hell’s Kitchen-based INM Architects is designing, and the lot is currently vacant.
The Bronx’s sleepiest neighborhoods have become a hotbed for small, market-rate developments. Friday’s filings brought one of these projects at 508 Van Nest Avenue, in the northeastern Bronx neighborhood of Van Nest.
Dominick Mirable, doing business as Tre Amici Realty LLC, has filed applications for two four-story, multi-family residential buildings at 3034-3036 Barnes Avenue, in southern Williamsbridge, four blocks from the Barnes Avenue stop on the 2 and 5 trains. The development will contain 18 units spread across 12,914 square feet of space, which translates into an average apartment of 717 square feet. Mohammad Badaly’s Mount Vernon-based Badaly Architects is the applicant of record.
