Permits have been filed for a five-story residential building at 653 Baltic Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Located between 4th and 5th Avenues, the lot is near the Bergen Street subway station, serviced by the 2, 3, and 4 trains. Jason Rivera of Constructionlab LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Construction has reached the halfway mark on 625 Fulton Street, a 35-story mixed-use tower in Downtown Brooklyn. Designed by Fischer Rasmussen Whitefield Architects and developed by Rabsky Group with $450 million in construction financing from Madison Realty Capital, the 500-foot-tall structure will yield 1,098 residential units, 26,000 square feet of retail space, and an on-site parking garage for 250 vehicles. Galaxy Developers is the general contractor for the property, which is alternately addressed as 485 Hudson Avenue and bound by the 34-story 80 DeKalb Avenue to the north, Fulton Street to the south, Rockwell Place to the east, and Hudson Avenue to the west.
Façade installation is progressing on 15 Hanover Place, a 34-story residential tower currently rising in Downtown Brooklyn. Designed by Fogarty Finger and developed by Lonicera Partners, for which Cushman & Wakefield arranged $134 million in construction financing from Santander and City National Bank, the 463-foot-tall structure will span 70,734 square feet and yield 314 apartments with 95 reserved for affordable housing, as well as 9,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space in the podium. Noble Construction Group is the general contractor for the property, which was formerly addressed as 23 Hanover Place and located at the corner of Livingston Street and Hanover Place.
A former church and women’s home at 539 West 54th Street in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan, will soon be replaced by a 21-story residential tower designed by GF55 Architects. The first rendering of the forthcoming structure was revealed by Excel Development Group earlier this week along with construction permits filed with New York City’s Department of Buildings.
The affordable housing lottery has launched for 1457 Flatbush Avenue, an eight-story mixed-use building in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Designed by Paul Jensen of Strekte Corp. and developed by Harry Einhorn of Flatbush Tower One LLC, the structure yields 71 residences, 2,689 square feet of commercial space, 8,150 square feet of community facility space, and 25 parking spaces. Available on NYC Housing Connect are 22 units for residents at 80 to 130 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $57,429 to $156,130.
