Construction is complete on Utica Crescent and work is getting underway on Sparrow Square, two affordable housing developments in East Flatbush, Brooklyn that will collectively deliver 583 residential units.
A $30 million capital improvement and repositioning program is now finished at 99 Park Avenue, a 600,000-square-foot Class A office tower in Midtown, Manhattan. Designed by Vocon and developed by Global Holdings, the project introduces a redesigned ground-floor experience, new tenant amenities, and upgraded interiors. The 26-story office tower is currently 97 percent leased, with recent tenants including Cerity Partners and Southern Land Company. The property is located between East 39th and 40th Streets.
NYC Parks has completed a $2.4 million reconstruction of Chief Dennis L. Devlin Park in Unionport, The Bronx. Funded through the Community Parks Initiative, the project rebuilt the park at Ellis Avenue, Olmstead Avenue, and the Cross Bronx Expressway Service Road.
The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) have released a Request for Proposals for a mixed-use redevelopment at 1743 86th Street in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. The project will replace the existing New Utrecht Library with a new public library and more than 200 units of 100 percent affordable housing on the library site and an adjacent city-owned parking lot. The property is located between 18th Avenue and Bay 16th Street.
Freedom Village, a new $54 million affordable housing development at 270 East 2nd Street in the Alphabet City section of Manhattan’s East Village, has officially opened. Designed by JCJ Architecture and developed by Barrier Free Living, the 13-story building contains 74 apartments for survivors of domestic violence and older adults who have experienced homelessness. The project replaces a former school building that had served as transitional housing for roughly three decades and marks a return to the site where Barrier Free Living was founded in 1981.
