The Clinton Housing Development Company (CHDC) is planning to convert the six-story commercial building at 500 West 52nd Street, located on the corner of Tenth Avenue in Hell’s Kitchen, into 46 affordable residential units exclusively for seniors who are performance artists. The conversion will also include the creation of 13,000 square feet of non-profit office space.
New buildings replace old ones quite frequently, and skylines evolve. It isn’t very often that a development literally redraws the map, but that’s what has happened with Hudson Lights, located in downtown Fort Lee, N.J.
Brooklyn-based USA Prince Properties has filed applications for a three-story, 3,792-square-foot mixed-use commercial building at 1795 45th Street, located on a wedge-shaped lot on the corner of Dahill Road in eastern Borough Park. There will be an equal amount of commercial and community facility space spread across all three levels, per the Schedule A. Kenneth Thomas’s Hudson Valley-based firm is the applicant of record. The 1,896-square-foot lot is vacant. The 18th Avenue stop on the F train is a block away.
A major step forward for the New York City skyline was taken on Tuesday morning. Elected officials joined developers to celebrate the official groundbreaking for One Vanderbilt.
As property values in Long Island City skyrocket, developers are starting to look a little further afield for places to build office space. A pair of developers are taking a chance on an industrially zoned strip in Sunnyside, just across the rail yards from Long Island City. They just filed plans for an eight-story office and medical building there at 38-01 Queens Boulevard, on the corner of 38th Street.
