180 Baldwin Avenue

980-Unit Mixed-Use Development Planned At 180 Baldwin Avenue, Journal Square

6:00 am on June 22, 2015 By Reid Wilson

Tomorrow, Argent Ventures will go before the Planning Board for approval of their planned 980-unit mixed-use development at 180 Baldwin Avenue, in Jersey City’s Journal Square. Two buildings will rise to seven stories on Baldwin Avenue, and two 25-story towers will stand behind those, according to The Jersey Journal. The project will feature ground-floor retail space, and public plazas are also planned. A four-story, 300,000 square-foot former factory must first be demolished, and Marchetto Higgins Stieve is designing.

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71 Cooper Street

Eight-Unit Rental Building Planned at 71 Cooper Street, Bushwick

4:00 pm on June 19, 2015 By Reid Wilson

Amit Stern, head of LHUM Investments, has filed applications for a four-story, eight-unit residential building measuring 5,490 square feet at the vacant lot of 71 Cooper Street, in southern Bushwick. Located two blocks from the J and Z train’s Chauncey Street subway stop, units will average just 685 square feet, indicative of rentals. Woody Chen’s InFocus is the applicant of record.

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108 Jefferson Avenue

Four-Story, Three-Unit Building In The Works At 108 Jefferson Avenue, Bed-Stuy

3:00 pm on June 19, 2015 By Reid Wilson

Property owner Joseph Emergi has revived applications, originally filed in 2013, calling for a four-story, three-unit residential building at the vacant lot of 108 Jefferson Avenue, in southwestern Bedford-Stuyvesant, three blocks north of the Nostrand Avenue subway stop. The building will measure 3,830 square feet, which means units will average a condo-sized 1,280 square feet. Gerald Caliendo is designing.

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78 Fort Place

Former Convent Building At 78 Fort Place Getting Gut-Renovated To Residential, St. George

2:00 pm on June 19, 2015 By Reid Wilson

Door to Door Realty is in contract to purchase the vacant two-story, nearly 42,400 square-foot building at 78 Fort Place, in St. George, and plans to renovate the building into roughly 30 market-rate rental units. The developer expects to close on the property later this year, according to DNAinfo, with leasing beginning by late 2016. A hearing with community groups is scheduled in September. Previous plans were approved for a residential facility for the mentally ill.

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