A rendering has been revealed for 50 Third Avenue, a 17-story mixed-use residential building in Manhattan’s East Village. Designed by Beyer Blinder Belle and developed by joint venture partners SK Development and Kinsmen Property Group, the structure will yield 184 rental units. The project will also include 12,529 square feet of ground-floor retail space. The property is located between East 10th and 11th Streets.
Plans have been revealed for the fire-cleared lot of Middle Collegiate Church at 112 Second Avenue in Manhattan’s East Village. Presented by CTA Architects on behalf of the congregation, the proposal calls for wrapping the L-shaped lot in a 10-foot-tall aluminum fence, paving the interior with permeable pavers, and constructing an accessible ramp and entrance to the church’s existing worship space at 50 East 7th Street. The application, which spans 112-114 Second Avenue and 50 East 7th Street, will go before the Landmarks Preservation Commission at its public hearing tomorrow.
The Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) is set to review a continuing maintenance plan for St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, an individual landmark at 131 East 10th Street Manhattan’s East Village. Prepared under Section 75-422 of the Zoning Resolution, the plan is the church-side prerequisite for a transfer of development rights to a receiving lot at 50-60 Third Avenue, part of a larger, already cleared site at 50-64 Third Avenue. Kinsmen Property Group, a joint venture between State Building Group and Madison Group, is planning a residential building spanning up to 160,000 square feet on the assemblage. Materials were assembled by Beyer Blinder Belle.
The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) has designated a development team for The Aurea, a mixed-use affordable housing development at 324 East 5th Street in Manhattan’s East Village. Designed by SLCE Architects and developed by a partnership of Spatial Equity, Housing Works, the Cooper Square Committee, and the This Land Is Ours Community Land Trust, the project will yield approximately 131 deeply affordable homes, with 30 percent of the units set aside for formerly homeless New Yorkers. The property is located between First and Second Avenues.
JLL Capital Markets has arranged a $62 million preferred equity investment for 51 Astor Place, a 12-story office building in East Village, Manhattan. Designed by Fumihiko Maki, the structure spans approximately 386,000 square feet and occupies a full block bordered by Astor Place, Third Avenue, Fourth Avenue, and East 9th Street.
