Permits have been filed for an eight-story mixed-use building at 611 West 181st Street in Fort George, Manhattan. Located between Wadsworth Avenue and St. Nicholas Avenue, the lot is near the 181st Street subway station, served by the 1 train. Moses Kupferstein of BBM Construction Corp. is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Renderings have been revealed for 289 Kent Avenue, a 17-story mixed-use building in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Designed by FXCollaborative for Web Holdings LLC, the 301,000-square-foot structure is slated to yield 280 rental apartments, with 70 dedicated to affordable housing. The project will also include ground-floor retail, commercial space, and community facility space. The property is located at the southeast corner of Kent Avenue and South 1st Street, directly across from the Domino Sugar redevelopment master plan.
Work is moving along on the office-to-residential conversion and expansion of the former Pfizer headquarters at 229 East 42nd Street in Midtown East, Manhattan. Designed by Gensler and developed by Metro Loft Development and David Werner Real Estate Investments, the project involves the gut renovation and full re-cladding of the 33-story tower, along with the construction of a 19-story vertical expansion of the adjacent building at 219 East 42nd Street. The conversion will yield 1,600 rental apartments, with 25 percent reserved for affordable housing, as well as ground-floor retail space and 100,000 square feet of amenities. The abutting properties are located at the northwestern corner of East 42nd Street and Second Avenue.
The Palisades Park Planning Board has granted approval for The Grandline, a sprawling mixed-use complex with two residential towers in Bergen County, New Jersey. Designed by MHS Architecture and developed by March Associates, the 19- and 17-story structures will yield a combined 510 apartments, including 102 units dedicated to affordable housing. The project will also feature a hotel, a wellness center, and a two-story, 175,000-square-foot shopping plaza straddling a landscaped public esplanade. LEEMS Corp. is listed as the owner, and Melillo Bauer Carman is the landscape architect for the 6.2-acre property, which is bounded by West Ruby Avenue to the north, Route 46 to the south, and Grand Avenue to the east.
YIMBY recently visited Crotona, The Bronx to check on four low-rise residential buildings that are either under construction or have been recently completed. All are located around the northern end of Crotona Park, within a short walk of the elevated 174th Street subway station, served by the 2 and 5 trains. The projects will introduce more than 250 housing units to the historically working-class neighborhood, which is seeing a steady increase in affordable residential construction in recent years.