The Grandline. Designed by MHS Architecture.

By Michael Young and Matt Pruznick

510-Unit Mixed-Use Complex ‘The Grandline’ Approved for Palisades Park, New Jersey

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.

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Two Queens Rezoning Proposals Get Public Hearings as ULURP Review Advances

By Max Gillespie

Two Queens rezoning proposals are moving into the public hearing phase before the New York City Planning Commission, marking the next step in the city’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP). The applications, known as the 100-12 Queens Boulevard Rezoning in Forest Hills and the 50-02 Queens Boulevard Rezoning in Woodside, would facilitate the development of new mixed-use residential projects that together would add more than 640 housing units to the borough, including over 160 income-restricted apartments.

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Photo by Michael Young.

Four New Residential Buildings Coming to Crotona, The Bronx

By Michael Young and Matt Pruznick

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.

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Rendering courtesy of Inglese Architecture + Engineering.

Renderings Reveal Phase One Of Hoboken Housing Authority Redevelopment in Hoboken, New Jersey

By Michael Young and Matt Pruznick

Renderings were recently revealed for the first phase in Hoboken Housing Authority’s sweeping plan to redevelop or modernize every public housing unit in Hoboken, New Jersey. The project aims to either rebuild or significantly rehabilitate six separate housing complexes originally constructed between 1940 and 1979, carrying out a one-for-one replacement of all 1,354 units.

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