Aveda Arts & Sciences Institutes has announced plans to relocate its New York City campus from Soho, Manhattan to 20 Jay Street in DUMBO, Brooklyn in the summer of 2025. The school will be addressed as 35 Pearl Street within the retail portion of the 11-story office building owned by Two Trees Management, and will feature modern classrooms and dedicated spaces for hands-on learning.
The affordable housing lottery has launched for 69 Adams Street, a 26-story residential building in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Designed by Fischer + Makooi Architect and developed by Rabsky Group, the structure yields 225 residences. Available on NYC Housing Connect are 70 units for residents at 130 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $105,223 to $198,250.
New renderings have been revealed for Pearl House, an office-to-residential conversion project by the Vanbarton Group at 160 Water Street in the Seaport neighborhood of Manhattan. The project, designed by Gensler, features an acre of amenities, both indoors and outdoors. Compass Development Marketing Group is the exclusive leasing and marketing partner for this project.
The DUMBO Improvement District and the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership have unveiled a new public sculpture honoring late musician Christopher Wallace, more commonly known as The Notorious B.I.G. From artist Sherwin Banfield, the new sculpture is titled Sky’s the Limit in the County of Kings and sits on the northeast corner of Prospect and Washington Streets near the entrance of the Brooklyn Bridge in DUMBO.
Work is complete on 90 Sands Street, a 30-story residential tower in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Designed by Beyer Blinder Belle and developed by Breaking Ground, the project involved the redevelopment of the former Jehovah’s Witness Hotel and yields 491 units with a portion devoted to deeply affordable housing and supportive housing for the formerly homeless, as well as a 28,000-square-foot community facility and commercial space spanning the first and second floors and a public plaza at the corner of Sands and Jay Streets.