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Rendering Revealed as Financing Secured for 12-Story, 91-Unit Residential Project At 329 East 132nd Street, Mott Haven

6:00 am on August 10, 2016 By Reid Wilson

A rendering has surfaced of the planned 12-story, 91-unit residential project at 329 East 132nd Street, in the South Bronx’s Mott Haven section. It comes as the Altmark Group and JCAL Development secured $22.1 million in construction financing, Commercial Observer reported. The latest building permits, which YIMBY first reported on in 2015, show the new building will encompass 71,912 square feet. Its residential units, which will be market-rate rental apartments, should average 738 square feet apiece. Amenities include a fitness center, a lobby lounge, an outdoor recreation space on the ground floor, storage for 46 bikes, a 37-car parking garage, and a roof terrace. Aufgang Architects is behind the architecture. Foundation work was underway in May and completion is expected in early 2018.

Four-Story, Eight-Unit Residential Building Planned at 2088 Bathgate Avenue, Tremont

1:00 pm on August 5, 2016 By Reid Wilson

Jamaica-based Phoenix Home Realty has filed applications for a four-story, eight-unit residential building at 2088 Bathgate Avenue, in the West Bronx’s Tremont section. It will measure 8,353 square feet and its residential units should average 821 square feet apiece, indicative of rental apartments. Gerald J. Caliendo’s Briarwood-based architectural firm is the architect of record. The 33-foot-wide, 2,326-square-foot property is currently vacant. Metro-North Railroad’s Tremont station is located six blocks away.

Four Three-Story, Three-Unit Residential Buildings Planned at 3221 Pearsall Avenue, Allerton

2:00 pm on August 4, 2016 By Reid Wilson

Property owner Yaniv Zohar, doing business as an anonymous Kew Gardens-based LLC, has filed applications for four three-story, three-unit residential buildings at 3217-3223 Pearsall Avenue, in the East Bronx’s Allerton section. The buildings will measure between 3,640 square feet and 3,845 square feet. Across the entire project, the full-floor residential units should average a family-sized 1,013 square feet apiece. There will be a total of 10 off-street parking spaces. Arnold Montag’s Great Neck, N.Y.-based AM/PM Design & Consulting is the architect of record. The 100-foot-wide, 10,000-square-foot property is currently occupied by a single-story house. Demolition permits were filed in June. The Gun Hill Road stop on the 5 train is seven blocks away.

Two Three-Story, Four-Unit Residential Buildings Planned at 1013 Adee Avenue, Williamsbridge

2:00 pm on August 1, 2016 By Reid Wilson

Property owner Emilio Dimatteo, doing business as an anonymous Yonkers, N.Y.-based LLC, has filed applications for two three-story, four-unit residential buildings at 1011-1013 Adee Avenue, in the East Bronx’s Williamsbridge section. Each will measure 4,000 square feet and the residential units should average 755 square feet apiece, indicative of rental apartments. Between the two, there will be a total of six off-street parking spaces. Gino Longo’s College Point-based architectural firm is the architect of record. The 50-foot-wide, 5,000-square-foot property is currently vacant. The site was occupied by a two-story house until that was demolished in late 2012. The Burke Avenue stop on the 2 and 5 trains is located 10 blocks away.

Senior Housing Set to Replace Abandoned South Bronx Church at 1017 Home Street

7:00 am on July 28, 2016 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

On a cold January day in 2009, a pipe burst and flooded the boiler of the Home Street Presbyterian Church, in the Foxhurst section of the Bronx. A small electrical fire destroyed the boiler for good, and the company that insured the church failed during the Great Recession. Facing a winter without heat and lacking the funds to repair the boiler, the congregation scattered to other churches in the South Bronx, and the little chapel on Home Street was abandoned. Now, the 1910 structure will be demolished to make way for affordable senior housing.

Revealed: Senior Housing at 1880 Boston Road in West Farms, Bronx

8:00 am on July 25, 2016 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

A slew of affordable housing projects are headed for an industrial slice of the central Bronx sandwiched between the Cross Bronx Expressway and the elevated subway tracks. The latest development to join the list is a 10-story affordable residential building at 1880 Boston Road, in a long-neglected neglected neighborhood known as West Farms.

The plan for Horace Mann's expansion. photo via Riverdale Press

Horace Mann School Plans a New Pool and Science Building in Fieldston, Bronx

8:00 am on July 22, 2016 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

The tony, private Horace Mann School in the upper Bronx has filed plans with the Department of Buildings to expand their campus with a new pool and science center.

Two Single-Story, 4,320-Square-Foot Retail Buildings Coming to 1806 Seward Avenue, Classon Point

1:00 pm on July 21, 2016 By Reid Wilson

Bronx-based K.O. Construction Corp. has filed applications for two single-story, 4,320-square-foot commercial-retail buildings at 654 Beach Avenue and 1806 Seward Avenue, in the East Bronx’s Classon Point section. Both would rise 18 feet in height and would contain “retail stores,” according to the Schedule A. Kenneth A. Koons’s Bronx-based architectural firm is the architect of record. They would rise on a vacant 8,984-square-foot property on the corner of Seward and Beach avenues, which would be subdivided into two tax lots. The site is located roughly a mile south of the St. Lawrence Avenue stop on the 6 train.

Construction Completed on 12-Story, 154-Unit Affordable-Supportive Building, 1191 Boston Road, Morrisania

6:00 am on July 20, 2016 By Reid Wilson

Construction has been completed and occupancy is underway at the 12-story, 154-unit affordable-supporting housing project at 1191 Boston Road, in the Bronx’s Morrisania section. Photos of the new building can be seen in a Curbed NY report. Dubbed Boston Road, the building encompasses 94,000 square feet and rises 119 feet above street level. It’s variety of affordable and supportive apartments, which are rentals, should average 315 square feet apiece. They are being leased at below-market rates to formerly homeless people, seniors, Medicaid users, and those living with HIV/AIDS. Amenities include a fitness center, a roof terrace, a garden, a computer lab, and storage for eight bikes. Breaking Ground is the developer and Alexander Gorlin Architects is behind the architecture.

City Seeks Affordable Mixed-Use Building for 65 East 149th Street, Lower Concourse

11:00 am on July 18, 2016 By Reid Wilson

The New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) and the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) have launched a request for expressions of interest (RFEI) for the 158,000-square-foot development site at 65 East 149th Street, located in the South Bronx’s Lower Concourse section. The hope is for a development team to propose a mixed-use building with an assortment of affordable residential units, commercial space, and community facilities, DNAinfo reported. In addition, there will have to be public open space, which will hopefully be in the form of a waterfront esplanade (the site fronts the Harlem River). Infrastructure upgrades are also part of the project. The vacant site is located five blocks from the 149th Street-Grand Concourse stop on the 2 and 5 trains. Responses are due by October 11.

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