Credit: Magnusson Architecture and Planning

NYCHA-proposed rezoning would facilitate development of two eight-story buildings and 16 attached duplexes on an underutilized parking lot. On August 22, 2012, the City Planning Commission approved NYCHA’s proposal to develop a 238-unit, multi-building affordable housing project in the Soundview section of the Bronx. The 155,000-square-foot project site is on the southeastern edge of a block bounded by Randall, Bronx River, Lacombe, and Rosedale Avenues. NYCHA’s 13-building Soundview Houses housing complex is north of the site, and the 205-acre Soundview Park lies to the southwest of the site. A portion of the project site is occupied by an underutilized 120-space parking lot used by the Soundview Houses.

NYCHA selected CPC Resources and Lemle & Wolff to develop the project. The project would include two eight-story apartment buildings, 16 attached two-family homes, and a total of 79 parking spaces. One eight-story building would include 85 one-bedroom units exclusively available for rent by senior citizens aged 55 and older, and one three-bedroom unit for a superintendent. A second eight-story building would provide a total of 120 rental units, and include a mix of one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments. Both buildings would be marketed to persons earning 60 percent or less of the area median income. The proposed two-family duplexes would include a three-bedroom unit and a two-bedroom rental unit. NYCHA intends to make each unit available for purchase to persons earning 100 percent of the area median income. (read more…)

Council Member Levin concerned that project would burden existing infrastructure. On April 28, 2010, the City Planning Commission heard testimony on CPC Resources Inc.’s proposed 2.75 million sq.ft. mixed-used development at the landmarked Domino Sugar plant site in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The 11.2- acre project site encompasses the former Domino plant along the East River between Grand and South 5th Streets and an upland parcel bounded by Kent and Wythe Avenues, and South 3rd and 4th Streets. The proposal included building four towers on the Domino site and a fifth structure on the upland parcel. CPC Resources would demolish the Domino Bin building and relocate the “Domino Sugar” sign to a redeveloped Refinery Building. The buildings would feature a series of setbacks to reduce their bulk and create a tapered effect.

The project would create approximately 2,200 residential units, 30 percent of which would be affordable. It would also provide four acres of public waterfront space, 125,000 sq.ft. of retail space, 99,000 sq.ft. of office space, and more than 1,600 underground parking spaces located in four separate facilities. Four of the buildings would include ground-floor retail with residential units above. The tower built on the waterfront parcel’s northern portion would be used primarily as office space. The Refinery Building would contain more than 100,000 sq.ft. of community facility space. (read more…)

Iconic symbol of Brooklyn’s industrial heritage approved as City landmark. On September 25, 2007, Landmarks voted unanimously to designate three buildings within the former Domino Sugar Processing Plant, located along the East River in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

The three round arch-style brick buildings, the largest of which measures 13 stories high, date back to the 1880s. The plant produced sugar until the 1970s. After Domino closed the site in 2004, CPC Resources purchased the plant with the intention of converting it into a major mixed-use development that would include 2.6 million sq.ft. of residential space. City Planning held a hearing on the draft scope of an environmental impact statement for the proposed development on July 31, 2007. 4 CityLand 107 (Aug. 15, 2007). (read more…)