A rendering has been revealed of sculptor Barry X Ball’s new three-story, 19,000-square-foot studio warehouse planned at 193 Banker Street, in southern Greenpoint. The latest building permits show that manufacturing space will be on the ground floor, office space on the second floor, and a 1,524-square-foot living quarters will be located on the third floor.
The Clinton Housing Development Company (CHDC) is planning to convert the six-story commercial building at 500 West 52nd Street, located on the corner of Tenth Avenue in Hell’s Kitchen, into 46 affordable residential units exclusively for seniors who are performance artists. The conversion will also include the creation of 13,000 square feet of non-profit office space.
The Jersey City Planning Board has recently approved plans for a four-story, three-unit mixed-use building at 415 1/2 Monmouth Street, located in a section of Jersey City called The Village. The project will feature commercial-retail space on the ground floor, followed by three full-floor condominium units on the floors above.
It’s been two years since renderings first appeared for the oddly named “Ballgreen Complex” at 186 Lenox Road in Flatbush. The unfortunate design and green-tinted facade haven’t changed a bit. But construction has reached its full height at eight stories, and workers have begun installing windows at the site between Bedford and Rogers Avenues.
The South Bronx hotel boom is picking back up again. Last week, plans were filed for a 10-story hotel at 2568 Park Avenue, in an industrially zoned section of Mott Haven.
