248 Duffield Street

121-Unit Partial Residential Conversion Underway At Eight-Story Commercial Building, 248 Duffield Street, Downtown Brooklyn

12:00 pm on November 7, 2016 By Reid Wilson

United American Land is currently converting the top five floors of the Offerman House, an eight-story commercial building and individual landmark at 248 Duffield Street in Downtown Brooklyn, into 121 residential units. The units will be rental apartments ranging from studios to three-bedrooms, the New York Times reported. The lower floors of the property are currently leased to retailers, including Nordstrom Rack and Old Navy. GreenbergFarrow is designing the conversion. Occupancy is expected in the spring of 2017.

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4820 Barnes Avenue

Five Three-Story, Three-Unit Residential Buildings Coming To 4820 Barnes Avenue, Wakefield

11:00 am on November 7, 2016 By Reid Wilson

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.

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147-07 88th Avenue

Six-Story, 10-Unit Mixed-Use Building Filed At 147-07 88th Avenue, Jamaica

10:00 am on November 7, 2016 By Reid Wilson

An anonymous Floral Park, N.Y.-based LLC has filed applications for a six-story, 10-unit mixed-use building at 147-07 88th Avenue, in downtown Jamaica. The project will measure 13,578 square feet. It will feature a 484-square-foot retail space on the ground floor, followed by residential units on the second through sixth floors. The apartments should average 1,309 square feet apiece, which suggests condominiums are likely in the works. Manish S. Savani’s Jamaica-based architecture firm is the architect of record. A two-story building must first be demolished. Permits were filed to do so in August.

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LICH Redevelopment

Developer To Move Forward With As-Of-Right Plans At Long Island College Hospital Property, Cobble Hill

8:00 am on November 7, 2016 By Reid Wilson

In 2015, Fortis Property Group laid out plans to redevelop the Long Island College Hospital property, located on several blocks in Cobble Hill. One proposal was for as-of-right development, while the other required an individual rezoning, approved through the city’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP). The developer has decided to move forward with the as-of-right plan, which will not include any affordable residential units, Politico reported.

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228 East Broadway

Development Assemblage, With Eight-Story Landmarked Building, Acquired At 226-232 East Broadway, Lower East Side

7:30 am on November 7, 2016 By Reid Wilson

The Ascend Group has acquired the eight-story, 44,000-square-foot former nursing home and individual landmark at 228 East Broadway, the four-story, 16,000-square-foot office building at 232 East Broadway, and the vacant plot at 226 East Broadway, all for $47.5 million. Plans for the Lower East Side assemblage have not been disclosed, although the Lo-Down has obtained a feasibility study on the site, by Space4Architecture, that includes two new 13-story mixed-use buildings.

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