Dynamic Star has revealed the first renderings and detailed plans for One Fordham Landing, a mixed-use, high-rise development at 320 West Fordham Road in The Bronx. Designed by Perkins Eastman, the property is taking shape in the University Heights neighborhood, just south of West Fordham Road along the Harlem River waterfront.
The building comprises roughly 350,000 square feet of leasable area. While future occupants have not been confirmed, the space is designed to accommodate community organizations, medical and educational tenants, and small businesses.
When complete, the building will have 18-foot ceiling spans, a 20,000-square-foot landscaped roof deck, and minimal interior columns to provide tenants with modern, open workspaces. Future tenants will also have access to a pickleball court, a lap pool, a basketball court, and a fitness center located in an adjacent apartment building.
To maximize health and wellness, the building is equipped with a high-efficiency ventilation system, enhanced air filters with UV light components, touchless doors and elevator technology, and LED light fixtures.
“We are excited to offer The Bronx a new standard in community facility buildings,” said Dynamic Star’s CEO Gary Segal. “We believe that a healthy environment, combined with a rich mix of tenant amenities and a spectacular waterfront location, is essential for productivity and overall well-being.”
The project team has not announced an anticipated construction schedule.
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Pretty dull. It would have been nice to have some fun with these buildings but it looks like that’s not going to happen.
It’s not extremely interesting, but it’s not too bad either. I quite like how it looks on the waterfront.
Yesyes i like it Thank you
What about some parks for the community? I see a tiny narrow piece.
You understand that developers are not in the business of giving things away for free, right? They do what is required. This is what is required. Will actually be a very useful waterfront greenway once all the pieces are connected.
More commercial space just isn’t needed, especially in a glass box in the Bronx. Switch it now to housing before it will sit empty for years.
“the space is designed to accommodate community organizations, medical and educational tenants, and small businesses”
This isn’t commercial space in the traditional office sense. I think there is demand for this kind of modern space in that area of the city.
It sounds as though it is community facility space, which can be medical offices, child care, or other types of nonprofits. The square footage from community facilities do not count against floor area ratio limits, so they permit developers to add additional square footage that they otherwise could not. So, if it is community facility space under the zoning resolution, it could not be converted to residential or other commercial space without a variance.
Exactly correct. These things are all determined by zoning, and this lot is R7-2. That grants a massive bonus for community facility space, which itself may not make much money for the developer but pushes all the money-making apartments much higher into the sky, giving better river views and moving them farther away from the Deegan.
In this case the community facility will most likely be a large charter school, probably Zeta Inwood High School (who have been looking for a space).
I used to live on the other side of the Hall of Fame library whose dome is visible on the right until 1976. Things had become very bad in the area by that time. The strip between the Major Deegan, Hudson Line, and Harlem River was originally industrial. Access to it is difficult by foot unless that is a walkway in the rendering and cars use a mini-helix to get up to W. Fordham Road. Up the hill off the left edge was a classy cooperative whose name has changed I believe. It became “gated” as the neighborhood changed for the worse. I suspect the area is far better than when I lived there and have been surprised by the amount of new construction. Some of this fills in the sites of burned buildings. I see a number of African businesses now. Watching the Harlem River was fun especially when there was ice that moved in both directions with the tides.
This project is an improvement to the area. The building is nothing fancy or striking.