The Court Square Blog notes that Jeffrey Gershon’s 11-story, 182-rental-unit mixed-use building has topped out at 22-22 Jackson Avenue, in Long Island City, and the façade is now five stories up. In YIMBY’s last update in November, the building was only five stories, and completion is expected in 2016.
1764 Union Management LLC has filed applications for a six-story, 16-unit residential building measuring 12,000 square feet at 1764 Union Street, in eastern Crown Heights. Olabanji B Awosika is designing, and the existing two-story structure was approved for demolition in December.
NorthJersey.com reports that excavation has begun at 33 Park Avenue, in Jersey City’s Liberty Harbor area, where Fisher Development is building two 44-story mixed-use towers containing 900 residential units. Perkins Eastman’s design was revealed by YIMBY in February, the towers will be built in phases, and completion of the first building is expected by 2017.
The New York Times recently noticed Ironstate’s URL Staten Island — located on the Stapleton’s waterfront, the first phase to include 571 residential units and 35,000 square feet of retail space — has made significant progress in construction. Revealed by YIMBY in 2014, multiple buildings have topped-out at five stories, and roughly half of the retail space is already leased. Completion of the first phase is expected later this year.
The owner of the vacant lot 646 Green Avenue, in central Bedford-Stuyvesant, has filed applications for a four-story, four-unit residential building measuring nearly 3,900 square feet. Kenneth Philogene, of KMP Design and Engineering, is the architect of record.
