When WeWork announced its plans to anchor a 675,000-square-foot office building on a vacant dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a few critics came out of the woodwork to lament the yard’s gradually disappearing industrial tenants, like modular housing builder Capsys.
Property owner Yaniv Zohar, doing business as Z-Group Holding Corp., has filed applications for a four-story, three-unit residential building at 45 Irving Place, in southern Clinton Hill, four blocks from the C train’s Franklin Avenue stop. The building will measure 4,832 square feet, and triplex units will measure an average 1,610 square feet. Williamsburg-based Adi Gershoni is the architect of record, and an existing two-story structure must first be demolished.
A U.S. subsidiary of Beijing-based China Oceanwide Holdings has made a deal with Howard Hughes Corp. to purchase the development site at 80 South Street, in the Financial District, for $390 million, according to Crain’s. Along with the five-story building at 80 South Street, the assemblage includes the 10-story building at 163 Front Street. The site boasts 820,000 square feet of development rights, with residential space allowed to span 440,000 square feet while the remainder designated for some form of commercial space.
G&S Developments has filed applications for twin two-story, two-unit residential buildings spanning the lots at 144-19 – 144-23 224th Street, in Brookville, six blocks south of the LIRR’s Laurelton station. The four total residential units will spread across 4,858 square feet, for units averaging 1,215 square feet apiece. Sion Hourizadeh’s Floral Park-based Sion Associates is the applicant of record, and an existing single-family home must first be demolished.
Nearly a year ago, applications were filed for a nine-story, 32-unit residential building at 42-50 27th Street, in Long Island City, and now those plans have been approved, with demolition underway to remove the existing two-story structure, per The Court Square Blog. The new building will measure 24,860 square feet, which works out to an average unit of 775 square feet. Ampiera Group is developing, and Jon K Yung’s Flushing-based MY Architect is the applicant of record.
