Permits have been filed for an eight-story residential building at 711 Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Located at the intersection of Franklin Avenue and Park Place, the corner lot is within walking distance of the Franklin Avenue-Medgar Evers College subway station, serviced by the 2, 3, 4, and 5 trains. Oren Sauberman under the RW 705 Franklin LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Permits have been filed for an 18-story residential building at 30 Porte Plaza and a five-story mixed-use building at 15 West Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Located at the intersection of Quay Street and West Street, the corner lot is within walking distance of the Nassau Street subway station, serviced by the G train. Lipa Friedman of Halcyon Management Group listed as the owner behind the applications.
Permits have been filed for an 11-story mixed-use building at 97 Glenmore Avenue in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Located at the intersection of Glenmore Avenue and Mother Gaston Boulevard, the lot is near the Sutter Avenue subway station, serviced by the L train. New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Exterior work is finishing up on One Bell Slip, a 30-story residential tower in Greenpoint, Brooklyn‘s Greenpoint Landing waterfront master plan. Designed by Handel Architects and developed by Brookfield Property Partners and Park Tower Group, the 369-foot-tall reinforced concrete structure will yield 292,029 square feet and 414 residential units, with 124 slated for affordable housing, as well as 992 square feet of commercial space on the lower floors. The tower is being built at the corner of Bell Slip and Commercial Street along Newtown Creek and East River waterfront.
Construction is now underway at 515 Blake Avenue, a large parcel of land in East New York that will eventually support 255 affordable housing units. The HELP ONE project will yield a mix of supportive housing and low-income apartments, and is among Brooklyn’s largest affordable housing projects announced this year.
