A parking garage in Melrose, in the South Bronx, is about to give way to a large affordable residential project with a charter school. And we have the first look at the project at 600 East 156th Street, which is currently making its way through the city rezoning process.
An anonymous LLC has filed applications for a five-story, 10-unit mixed-use building at 536 East 183rd Street, in the Belmont section of the Bronx. The project will measure 15,181 square feet, featuring 1,255 square feet of ground- and cellar-level retail space, followed by residential units on the second through fifth floors. The apartments should averge 998 square feet apiece, which means they will likely be geared towards families. Midtown South-based Issac & Stern Architects is the architect of record. The 3,807-square-foot plot is vacant.
The area near Fordham University in the Bronx is poised to get a little more market-rate housing. Plans were filed earlier today to build an eight-story apartment building at 2180 Arthur Avenue in Belmont, in the northwestern part of the borough.
An anonymous Chelsea-based LLC has filed applications for a four-story, 89,078-square-foot commercial-warehouse at 1302 Edward L. Grant Highway, located on the corner of West 169th Street, in the West Bronx’s Tremont section. There will be warehouse space across two sub-cellar levels and four above-grade levels. Office space will be located on the second floor. There will also be three loading berths and three off-street parking spaces. Virginia-based Butz Wilbern LTD is the architect of record. The 21,156-square-foot plot is vacant. The 167th Street stop on the 4 train is three blocks away.
A South Ozone Park-based property owner has filed applications for five three-story, three-unit residential buildings at 4820-4828 Barnes Avenue, in the East Bronx’s Wakefield section, located on the city border with Mount Vernon. The buildings will measure 3,760 square feet each. Across the entire development, the full-floor residential units should average a family-sized 940 square feet apiece. Olabanji B. Awosika’s Jamaica-based architecture firm is the architect of record. The 121-foot-wide, 11,192-square-foot property is occupied by a two-and-a-half-story house. Demolition permits were filed in August.
