111 Willow Ave Rendering. Image Credit: CPC

New industrial modern loft building for Bronx area scarce with residential options. On March 14, 2018, the City Planning Commission held a hearing on the Willow Avenue Rezoning application. The applicant, Markland 745 LLC, seeks to develop a mixed-use, mostly residential building on Willow Avenue between East 133rd and East 134th Street in the Port Morris section of the Bronx. The property is currently occupied by a three-story commercial office building and a single-story warehouse. The current buildings will be demolished to make way for the new development. The application includes a rezoning from a manufacturing district to a mixed residential, manufacturing, and commercial district zone and mapping of a mandatory inclusionary housing (MIH) area for the property. (read more…)