The city and a group of developers broke ground Monday on an 11-story affordable and supportive housing development in the University Heights section of the Bronx.
Midtown South-based Louise Paris Ltd. has filed applications for a four-story, 42,786-square-foot mixed-use building at 2429 Jerome Avenue, in University Heights, located directly below the Fordham Road stop on the 4 train. The structure would feature 7,640 square feet of ground-floor retail space, as well as a 24,956-square-foot school. The ground floor will host the school’s lobby, followed by classrooms on the second through fourth floors, and a playground on the rooftop. Mansukhbhai Patel’s New Jersey-based Vista Engineering Corp. is the applicant of record. An assemblage of five buildings – two three-story structures and two single-story buildings – at 2421-2431 Jerome Avenue must first be demolished.
The landmarked St. James Episcopal Church hopes to build 12 stories of affordable housing on part of their property at 2500 Jerome Avenue, in the University Heights section of the Bronx.
Sopher Realty has filed applications for a single-story, 9,745 square-foot commercial-retail building spanning the lots at 1953-1965 University Avenue, in University Heights. Howell Belanger Castelli Architects is designing, and the existing single-story retail structure most recently passed pre-demolition inspection late in March. The site’s current structure was involved in a fire late last year, according to DNAinfo.