The expansion of a single-family home isn’t always worth noting, but when the home sits in a historic district, it’s often worth taking a look at. Such is the case of 233-20 Bay Street in Queens’s Douglaston Historic District, which was on the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s agenda at its public hearing on Tuesday.
Long Island-based Hersel Sakhaee has filed applications for a five-story, six-unit mixed-use building at 1031 Broadway, in northern Bushwick, located three blocks down from the Myrtle Avenue stop on the J/M/Z trains. The project will measure 6,750 square feet in total and includes a 1,687 square-foot ground-floor retail portion. The residential units will begin on the second floor and average 844 square feet apiece. Hudson Valley-based Kenneth Thomas is the applicant of record.
David Shavolian, doing business as an anonymous LLC, has filed applications for a six-story, 11-unit residential building at 19 Clarkson Avenue, in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, located three blocks from the Parkside Avenue stop on the Q train. The building will measure 8,098 square feet, which means units will average a rental-sized 736 square feet apiece. An existing two-story, 20-foot-wide rowhouse – currently being used as a day care – will have to be razed. Suresh Manchanda’s Flushing-based L&C Associates is the applicant of record.
Kuafu Properties and Shanghai Construction Group’s U.S. branch have closed on the purchase of floors 51 through 63 in MiMa, the 63-story luxury rental tower located at 660 West 42nd Street, in Hell’s Kitchen, for $260.8 million. According to Commercial Observer, the developers plan to convert those floors’ 151 rental units into an equal number of condominiums under the name of 1 MiMa. The remaining 663 rental units in the building, under ownership by Related Companies and TIAA-CREF, will not be touched. Residents in 1 MiMa will have access to the tower’s 44,000 square feet of amenities and will have an exclusive entrance. A $211.6 million loan was secured for the acquisition.
In October of 2014, YIMBY revealed renderings of Nava Companies’ planned seven-story, 10-unit Passive House residential building at 210 Pacific Street, in Boerum Hill, and early in 2015, the building topped out. Surprisingly, a brass tile façade is now being installed, Pardon Me For Asking reports, which is an exciting departure from the earlier renderings we released. The residential units will average a spacious 2,020 square feet apiece, and recreational space and a gym will be located in the cellar and ground levels. SBLM Architects is the architect of record. Opening can probably be expected later this year.
