FBL Development has revealed the first renderings of 81-07 Kew Gardens Road, a new eight-story building in Kew Gardens, Queens. The structure will eventually comprise 48,000 square feet with a mix of rental apartments and a ground-floor retail space.
Permits have been filed for an 11-story mixed-use building with affordable housing at 540 Degraw Street in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Spanning the length of Nevins Street between Degraw Street and Sackett Street, the lot also addressed as 537 Sackett Street. The site is walking distance from the Union Street subway station, serviced by the R train. The Vorea Group is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Permits have been filed for an eight-story mixed-use building at 560 Bay Street in Stapleton Heights, Staten Island. Located between Prospect Street and Union Place, the site is one block from the Stapleton station for the Staten Island subway. Jinsong Yang of McKinley Homes is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Construction has topped out on the newly renamed Brooklyn Tower, a 93-story supertall skyscraper and the tallest structure in the Outer Boroughs at 9 DeKalb Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn. Designed by SHoP Architects and developed by JDS, the 1,066-foot-tall tower will yield 550 residences, with 150 for purchase and 400 rentals with 30 percent of which reserved at affordable housing rates, as well as a 100,000-square-foot retail podium bound by Flatbush Avenue Extension to the northeast, Fleet Street to the northwest, and DeKalb Avenue to the south. The project also includes the refurbishing and re-purposing of the landmarked Dime Savings Bank of Brooklyn, which is being incorporated into the podium. Douglas Elliman is the exclusive marketing, sales, and leasing agent.
Permits have been filed for a 16-story mixed-use building at 470 Kent Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Located at the intersection of Division Avenue and Kent Avenue, the waterfront lot is walking distance from South Williamsburg stop on the East River Ferry and the Marcy Avenue subway station, serviced by the J, M, and Z trains. Naftali Group is listed as the owner behind the applications, along with the neighboring two mixed-use towers at 484 Kent Avenue, addressed as 480 and 490 Kent Avenue, and planned to rise 21 and 22 stories respectively.
