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    City Planning Approves 11-Story Middle-Income Building in Bedford-Stuyvesant; City Council Next to Consider

    ULURP  •  Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn

    Rendering of the proposed 11-story building, designed by Shakespeare Gordon Vlado Architects. Image credit: BFC Partners

    The City Planning Commission approved a new 11-story mixed-use building with 103 units in Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. On July 26, 2017, the New York City Planning Commission issued a favorable report on an application for multiple land use actions to facilitate the development of an 11-story mixed-use building consisting of 71,417 square feet of residential floor area and 13,236 square feet of retail floor area. The applicant, the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, proposed that the site be designated an Urban Development Action Area Project (UDAAP) and the disposition of city-owned land to the developer. (read more…)

    Tags : Bedford-Stuyvesant, BFC Partners, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Brooklyn Community Board 3, Department of Housing Preservation and Development, Shakespeare Gordon Vlado Architects, SMJ Development
    Date:08/09/2017
    Category : City Planning Commission
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    City Planning Holds Hearing on 11-Story Middle-Income Building in Bedford-Stuyvesant

    ULURP  •  Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn

    Rendering of the proposed 11-story building, designed by Shakespeare Gordon Vlado Architects. Image credit: BFC Partners

    Planning Commission holds hearing for new 11-story mixed-use building with 103 units in Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. On June 21, 2017, the New York City Planning Commission held a public hearing on an application for multiple land use actions to facilitate the development of an 11-story mixed-use building consisting of 71,417 square feet of residential floor area and 13,236 square feet of retail floor area. The applicant, the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, proposed that the site be designated an Urban Development Action Area Project (UDAAP) and the disposition of city-owned land to the developer. (read more…)

    Tags : Bedford-Stuyvesant, BFC Partners, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Brooklyn Community Board 3, Commissioner Anna Hayes Levin, Department of Housing Preservation and Development, Shakespeare Gordon Vlado Architects, SMJ Development
    Date:06/27/2017
    Category : City Planning Commission
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    Second Avenue mixed-income housing approved

    UDAAP/Text Amendment  •  East Village, Manhattan

    Tenants displaced by project can purchase or rent affordable apartments in new building. On April 6, 2011, the City Council approved the Department of Housing Preservation and Development’s proposal to allow BFC Partners and The Urban Homesteading Assistance Board to redevelop three lots at the corner of Second Avenue and East 1st Street in the East Village. The development team will build a twelve-story, 79-unit affordable housing project with ground floor commercial  space. The project will replace two existing mixed-use buildings at 9 and 11-1 Second Avenue between East 1st and East Houston Streets.

    Sixteen of the project’s apartments will be permanently affordable for households earning up to 80 percent of the area median income. The proposal amended the City’s Inclusionary Housing Program to permit nine tenants currently residing in the existing buildings to purchase or rent affordable units in the  new development. The four affordable units not reserved for the existing tenants will be sold to income-eligible individuals for $180,000 each. (read more…)

    Tags : BFC Partners, Department of Housing Preservation and Development, The Urban Homesteading Assistance Board
    Date:05/15/2011
    Category : City Council
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    Second Ave. mixed-income housing project heard

    UDAAP/Text Amendment  •  East Village, Manhattan
    Courtesy – GF55 Architects

    Developers would offer home ownership opportunities to low-income tenants displaced by twelve-story project. On February 16, 2011, the City Planning Commission heard testimony on the Department of Housing Preservation and Development’s proposal to allow BFC Partners and the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (UHAB) to build a twelve-story affordable housing development in the East Village. The 65-unit project would replace two mixed-use buildings at 9 through 17 Second Avenue between East 1st and East Houston Streets. Thirteen apartments would be permanently affordable and marketed to households earning up to 80 percent of the area median income, and the remaining 52 would be offered as market-rate rental units. To facilitate the project, HPD requested a UDAAP designation and an amendment to the City’s Inclusionary Housing Program.

    BFC owns a three-story building on the site at the corner of Second Avenue and East 1st Street. It is occupied by four residential tenants and two commercial tenants, including the Mars Bar saloon. UHAB owns a five-story building to the south that includes five residential tenants, three vacant units, and vacant ground floor space. BFC and UHAB plan to offer the buildings’ nine residential tenants the opportunity to purchase affordable units in the new building. (read more…)

    Tags : BFC Partners, Department of Housing Preservation and Development, Urban Homesteading Assistance Board
    Date:03/15/2011
    Category : City Planning Commission
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