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2100 Powell Avenue

Four Small Buildings Totaling 10 Residential Units Planned At 2100 Powell Avenue, Unionport

3:00 pm on February 11, 2016 By Reid Wilson

Bronx-based Esha Group has filed applications for four, small three-story residential buildings at 2100-2106 Powell Avenue, in the East Bronx’s Unionport neighborhood, located five blocks from the Parkchester stop on the 6 train. Two of the buildings will measure 3,363 square feet and have three units each, while the other two will measure 2,509 square feet and contain two units each. Across the entire development, residential space will total 8,902 square feet and individual units will average 890 square feet apiece. Akeeb Shekoni’s Long Island-based Askon Architects is the architect of record. An existing three-story building on the corner of Olmstead Avenue must first be demolished.

188-25 Woodhull Avenue

Four Three-Story, Three-Unit Residential Buildings Planned At 188-25 Woodhull Avenue, Hollis

1:00 pm on February 11, 2016 By Reid Wilson

Guy Iber, doing business as an anonymous Brooklyn-based LLC, has filed applications for four three-story, three-family residential buildings at 188-21 – 188-27 Woodhull Avenue, in Hollis, located three blocks from the neighborhood’s Long Island Rail Road station. Each structure will measure 5,207 square feet, although the residential space across the entire development will add up to 15,624 square feet. That means full-floor units will average a family-sized 1,302 square feet apiece. Akeeb Shekoni’s Queens-based Askon Architects is the architect of record. Permits were filed last September to demolished the existing two-and-a-half-story house.

63-33 Alderton Street

Two-Family Building Developments Replace Underutilized Lots in Rego Park, Laurelton

3:00 pm on May 5, 2015 By Reid Wilson

Two more applications have been filed that would replace another single-family structure in the neighborhood of Rego Park, and Laurelton, an even rarer vacant lot, in central and eastern Queens, respectively. The burgeoning demand for residential units makes it more attractive to redevelop lots that would otherwise remain single-family homes.

The property owner of the single-family home at 63-33 Alderton Street, in Rego Park, has filed applications for a two-story, two-family building measuring 2,405 square feet. The existing structure will be utilized and expanded upon during construction, and Chang Hwa Tan is designing.

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