Rendering of Bronx Point - S9 Architecture

Developers Secure $349M for Bronx Point Affordable Housing Complex, in the South Bronx

7:30 am on December 31, 2020 By Sebastian Morris

L+M Development Partners, Type A Projects, BronxWorks, and the City of New York have closed on $349 million financing package to complete phase one of Bronx Point, a new mixed-use affordable housing complex in the South Bronx. As a public-private partnership, the financing entities include the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, the New York City Housing Development Corporation, Empire State Development, Wells Fargo, and additional private funding sources.

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111 West 57th Street’s Façade Continues to Wrap Up in Midtown

8:00 am on December 30, 2020 By Michael Young

Exterior work is getting closer to completion on 111 West 57th Street, a 1,428-foot-tall residential supertall on Billionaires’ Row and number two on our countdown of the tallest projects under construction in the city. Designed by SHoP Architects and developed by   JDS Development, Property Markets Group, and Spruce Capital Partners, the 60-unit Midtown skyscraper stands as the world’s most slender structure with a height-to-width ratio of 24:1.

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Revised renderings of penthouse addition at 405 Vanderbilt Avenue - VonDalwig Architecture

LPC Approves Penthouse Addition at 405 Vanderbilt Avenue in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn

7:30 am on December 30, 2020 By Sebastian Morris

VonDalwig Architecture has successfully petitioned the Landmarks Preservation Commission to permit the construction of a single-story penthouse expansion at 405 Vanderbilt Avenue in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. Following feedback from the commissioners in the fall, the design team reduced the peak height of the volume’s sloped roof by almost two feet, selected a lighter-colored zinc façade, and raised the existing parapet and chimneys by three rows of brick.

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