The Department of City Planning is now reviewing Environmental Impact Statements for a six-building expansion of Stevenson Commons in the Soundview section of The Bronx. Owned by Camber Property Group, the development site is located at White Plains Road and 1850 Lafayette Avenue and currently comprises nine Mitchell-Lama buildings spanning 990,050 square feet.
Full demolition permits have been filed for 4650 Broadway in Inwood, Manhattan. Joseph Caruso under the Aqozfi Inwood LLC is listed as the owner. Located at the intersection of Broadway and Sherman Avenue, the 47,175-square-foot site has 180 feet of street frontage.
Exterior work is nearing completion on The Charlotte, a 626-foot-tall mixed-use skyscraper at 25 Columbus Drive in Jersey City. Designed by Elkus Manfredi Architects and developed by Mack-Cali’s Roseland Residential Trust, the 57-story tower will yield 750 units with interiors designed by Fogarty Finger and a school in the podium designed by KSS Architects. Melillo + Bauer Associates is the landscape architect, DeSimone Consulting Engineers is the structural engineer, and AMA Consulting Engineers is the mechanical engineer for the project, which is bound by Christopher Columbus Drive to the north, Montgomery Street to the south, Washington Street to the east, and Warren Street to the west.
This week, developers celebrated the completion of two new affordable housing properties within the sprawling La Central residential complex in Melrose, The Bronx. Located at 556 and 600 Bergen Avenue, buildings A and B comprise nearly 500 income-restricted units, a new YMCA, a production studio for BronxNet, a rooftop farm operated by GrowNYC, and a mix of retail businesses.
Permits have been filed for a six-story school building at 50 Lawrence Avenue in Kensington, Brooklyn. Located between McDonald Avenue and Seton Place, the interior lot is one block south of the 18th Avenue subway station, serviced by the F train. Ari Lew of the Lawrence Charitable Trust is listed as the owner behind the applications.
