Permits have been filed for the full demolition of two buildings at 379 and 381 Vernon Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Chris Sanders of 381 Vernon Avenue LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Renderings have been revealed the proposed design and master plan for the Owls Head Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Facility at 2 2nd Avenue in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Designed by Selldorf Architects in collaboration with Hazen and Sawyer, Brown and Caldwell, and SCAPE Landscape Architecture for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, the facility is planned to yield a 24,750-square-foot head house to support a four-million-gallon underground tank, two acres of public waterfront, and the relocation and redesign of a salt shed for the New York City Department of Sanitation. The project, the second new facility of its type in the borough, would be built along the southern end of the Gowanus Canal on a narrow triangular peninsula, south of the CSO Red Hook site.
Ireland-based fashion retailer Primark recently signed a lease for a four-story flagship store at 150 West 34th Street in Midtown, Manhattan. Designed by Gensler, the new store will comprise more 54,000 square feet of retail space and replace the current occupant Old Navy at the 78,000-square-foot building, which was built in 1900 and most recently renovated in 1998. The property is located between Sixth and Seventh Avenues.
The affordable housing lottery has launched for Union Channel, a nine-story mixed-use building at 240 3rd Avenue in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Designed by Fogarty Finger and developed by Charney Companies and Tavros Capital, the structure yields 224 residences. Available on NYC Housing Connect are 58 units for residents at 130 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $31,989 to $167,700.
Permits have been filed to expand a single-story structure into a four-story residential building at 366 Harman Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Located between Irving Avenue and Wyckoff Avenue, the lot is near the Myrtle-Wyckoff Avenues subway station, served by the L train. David Dong is listed as the owner behind the applications.
