Permits have been filed for an eight-story community facility building at 88-49 163rd Street in Jamaica, Queens. Located between 89th Avenue and Hillside Avenue, the lot is near the Parsons Boulevard subway station, serviced by the E and F trains. Larry Grubler of Transitional Services for New York is listed under the Building 163 SC HDFC as the owner behind the applications.
Foundations are underway at 280 Eighth Avenue, the site of a 12-story residential building in Chelsea, Manhattan. Designed by SLCE Architects and developed by Red Apple Group under the RA 280 Development LLC, the 113-foot-tall structure will span 58,021 square feet and yield 64 rental units with an average scope of 819 square feet, as well as 4,642 square feet of commercial space, 947 square feet of community facility space, a cellar level, and a 24-foot-long rear yard. The property is situated at the corner of Eighth Avenue and West 24th Street.
Construction is nearing completion on Beach Channel Apartments, an eight-story affordable housing building at 13-12 Beach Channel Drive in Far Rockaway, Queens. Designed by Urban Architecture Initiatives (UAI) and developed by BRC and Camber Property Group, the structure is set to yield 147 affordable units and 100 shelter units with supportive services, as well as residential amenities and a 1,239-square-foot community facility on the ground floor. The property is located on an interior lot between Beach Channel Drive and Redfern Avenue.
Institutional investment fund sponsor Foss & Company and environmental nonprofit Scenic Hudson have closed on a former manufacturing facility at 58 Parker Avenue and 164 Garden Street in Poughkeepsie. This historic tax credit project will see an extensive renovation and reinvention for five interconnected Standard Gage manufacturing buildings, which have been vacant since the company’s departure from the area in 2002.
Construction has topped out on Edgemere Commons’ second all-affordable housing structure at 5119 Beach Channel Drive in Far Rockaway, Queens. Designed by Aufgang Architects and developed by Tishman Speyer’s TS Communities, the company’s affordable housing development platform, and The Arker Companies and Slate Property Group, the 247,000-square-foot structure will yield 237 rental apartments in studio to three-bedroom layouts, with 36 reserved for the formerly homeless, as well as 8,000 square feet of retail space and 7,500 square feet of community facility space. The building, also know as Edgemere Commons Building B1, is situated between Beach 50th and Beach 53rd Streets.
