Construction Ramps Up On the Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center

8:00 am on August 28, 2018 By Michael Young

After previously enduring a slight pause in construction, the site of the future Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center has picked up the pace of steel assembly currently forming the bottom sub-levels of the 130-foot structure. They will eventually form the secondary entrance and exit to the World Trade Center’s Vehicle Security Center. The project is already above street level and is being developed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ), and designed by Joshua Prince-Ramus of Brooklyn-based REX Architecture. A 99-year lease was already  approved for the project by Governor Andrew Cuomo.

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554 Prospect Place, image courtesy MADS Engineering

Underwhelming Renderings Revealed for 554 Prospect Place, Crown Heights, Brooklyn

7:30 am on August 28, 2018 By Andrew Nelson

Earlier this month, we covered permits filed for the Faith Chapel Baptist Church at 552 Prospect Place, Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Today, thanks to a YIMBY reader’s tip, we can reveal renderings for the site’s soon-to-be replacement. As one might expect for such a unique building, a portion of the extant structure will be preserved, but not as much as one might expect. Stephan Tchorbajian of Hye Rise Consulting is listed as responsible for the development.

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6301 Riverdale Avenue, College of Mount Saint Vincent dorm via The Real Deal

The College of Mount Saint Vincent Files For New Dormitory At 6301 Riverdale Avenue, The Bronx

6:30 am on August 28, 2018 By Andrew Nelson

Permits have been filed for a 91-room dormitory at 6301 Riverdale Avenue on the College of Mount Saint Vincent campus, in The Bronx. The North Riverdale site is a sixteen-minute bus ride away from the Van Cortlandt Park subway station at 242nd Street, end of the line for the 1 train. The College’s Vice President of Operations Kevin DeGroat is listed as behind the applications.

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