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[Blaze23]

Pretty nice design For something that's not on 57th street

TF Cornerstone To Develop Phase 2 Of Hunter's Point South

http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/1...oint_south.php

[NYguy]

http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/pr2...12-05-13.shtml

HPD COMMISSIONER VISNAUSKAS ANNOUNCES DEVELOPMENT TEAM TO BUILD 1,193 NEW APARTMENTS IN SECOND PHASE OF HUNTER’S POINT SOUTH MEGA PROJECT


December 5, 2013

NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) Commissioner RuthAnne Visnauskas announced today that a development team consisting of TF Cornerstone and Selfhelp has been selected to build Phase II of the City’s massive Hunter’s Point South development. The developers were chosen through a competitive Request for Proposals (RFP). The site, referred to as Parcel C, located in Long Island City, Queens and bounded by Borden Avenue to the north, 2nd Street to the east, 54th Avenue to the south, and Center Boulevard to the west, will be developed into two high-rise buildings with a total of 1,193 new apartments. Of the total, 796 apartments will be affordable, with 100 of those units reserved for low-income senior citizens. The remainder of the apartments will be market-rate. Phase II will also feature a fitness facility, rooftop gardens and decks, children’s playroom, an on-site Senior recreational center and other amenities.

"We are excited to be working with TF Cornerstone and Selfhelp to build this next phase of the largest affordable housing development undertaken since the 1970s,"said HPD Commissioner RuthAnne Visnauskas. "From our most vulnerable populations to those in our middle-class, the challenges of finding an affordable home and the cost of living with rent burden are experiences that many New Yorkers share. This second phase of Hunter’s Point South will create nearly 800 affordable apartments, in a mixed-income community, new space for local arts and community groups, and new opportunity for economic growth. But most important, it will be a place where our senior citizens will have rents they can afford and supportive services, and where hardworking moderate- and middle-income New York families can put down roots and grow with this vibrant and flourishing neighborhood.”

Consisting of a total of more than 1,200,000-square-feet, development of Parcel C will create 1,193 new apartments with a mix of studio, one- , two- ,and three-bedroom units. Of 796 affordable apartments, 696 units will be targeted to moderate- and middle-income families with household incomes ranging from 105% of Area Median Income (AMI) to 155% AMI, which is equivalent to $111,670 to $141,735 per year for a family of four. Roughly 50% of the moderate- and middle-income affordable units are expected to be a mix of larger family-sized two- and three-bedroom apartments.

Designed by Office of Design & Architecture, with SLCE Architects, the proposal creates two new iconic towers to enhance the Queens skyline with stepped terraces that echo the Art Deco skyscrapers of Manhattan. The tower to the north will be 41 floors and the tower to the south will be 36 floors. The design incorporates numerous community green spaces throughout the different levels of the building, including two urban farming plateaus.

Hunter’s Point South site C is the second phase of what will become the largest affordable housing development in New York City since the early 1970s when Co-op City and Starrett City were completed. In 2009 the City acquired the entire 30-acre Hunter’s Point South site from the Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey at the cost of $100 million dollars. Phase I which includes Parcels A and B is currently under construction and will provide 925 permanently affordable units when complete. When the entire multi-phase Hunter’s Point South development project is completed the City will have added approximately 5,000 new units of housing to the Queens waterfront, a minimum of 60 percent or 3,000 units of which will be reserved as affordable for low-, moderate- and middle-income families.

http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/1...oint_south.php

[NYguy]

A better look.....



http://www.rew-online.com/2013/12/05...nt-apartments/

[Design-mind]

Originally Posted by NYguy

A better look.....

http://www.rew-online.com/2013/12/05...nt-apartments/

Is the corner warehouse looking structure something existing or are they creating this kind of look?

[Perklol]

A simple but attractive design.

[NYguy]

I could do without the zombies on the lawn. They should really do multi-seasoned renderings when unveiling them. Imagine that view with a snow covered lawn.

[antinimby]

Creating.

[NYguy]

http://oda-architecture.com/projects/HuntersPoint.html

[chris08876]

City moves forward on Hunter's Point South

The de Blasio administration took the first steps last week to furthering a 30-acre, Bloomberg-era economic development project on the Long Island City, Queens, waterfront known as Hunter's Point South that will eventually be home to up to 5,000 units of housing.

The city is moving forward with a nearly $100 million construction project to build both a new waterfront park and a series of roads, water mains and sewer lines that will eventually support the final buildings of the initiative. On Friday, the city's Economic Development Corp. issued a request for proposals for part of the job.

"This RFP will help us build upon the incredible success of Hunter's Point South so far, continuing to transform an abandoned industrial site into a dynamic, mixed-use community, and reconnecting Queens residents to the waterfront," said EDC spokesman Ian Fried.

The city-led project is billed as the largest housing development in more than three decades, and all told is set to bring at least 3,000 below market rate units to the formerly gritty peninsula in Long Island City.

The site was designed to stem the loss of middle-income housing in the city and two buildings already under construction will boast 900 affordable units that will serve, for example, families of four making between $55,000 to $158,000 annually, based on federal guidelines.

And in former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's final month in office, the the city Department of Housing Preservation and Development selected a partnership between TF Cornerstone and the nonprofit Selfhelp Community Services to build a 1,193-unit complex where about two-thirds of the apartments will be below-market rate.

Friday's request will literally lay the groundwork for the last part of the project, which should entail the construction of an additional 3,000 units, though the exact number of affordable units and the income range they will serve has not yet been set in stone.

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May 28, 2014
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article...rs-point-south

[chris08876]

Pic by me

[chris08876]

Phase 2 of Hunters Point South Megaproject Is Now Underway

Mayor Bill de Blasio broke ground on a series of infrastructural projects set to take place at the site, including work on the second part of an 11-acre park, new streets with sewers, water mains, and utility work. This phase of construction will also see the addition of 3,000 new units of housing, 60 percent of which will be for low- and middle-income families. Construction on this phase of housing will commence right after the infrastructural work is complete sometime in 2018.

"We're building a new neighborhood from the ground-up, from its streets to its parks to its transit," said de Blasio. "This is going to be the biggest affordable housing project built in a generation, and it's going to ensure that this corner of Queens—despite all the market pressures driving up rents—will remain a diverse place for working people."

Phase I of the development includes 2,000 units of housing, 925 of which have already been built in the form of two entirely affordable buildings: Hunters Point South Commons and Crossing. The entire expanse of this 30-acre megaproject has already seen the construction of three schools seating 1,000 students and a 2,300-square-foot urban farm and apiary. More commercial and community spaces will follow in the second phase. The 11-acre public park, when finished, will include a playground, a waterside promenade, and an elevated cafe plaza.

The city has committed close to $100 million for the second phase of this project as part of the Housing New York plan. The city is working with several architects and developers on the different phases of the project. The landscape of the park is being developed by Weiss/Manfredi and Thomas Balsley Associates, while the residential buildings are being developed by Related, Monadnock, and Phipps Houses.

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[chris08876]

Large Rendering of Master Plan:


Credit: http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article...school-as-rail

[Busy Bee]

You gotta love how insignificant the skyline of LIC was depicted just a handful,of years ago in that rendering!

[chris08876]

Extra Rendering:


Credit: NYCurbed

[tdawg]

I LOVE Hunters Point. I run through Gantry Plaza park several times a week. It's one of my favorite parks in the city.

[chris08876]

A request for proposals released Thursday to build residential and retail in the Hunter's Point South section of Long Island City, Queens

The de Blasio administration Thursday unlocked two more development sites at Hunter's Point South, a massive city undertaking on the Long Island City, Queens, waterfront that will ultimately produce more than 5,000 units of housing.

The two parcels in question are at the southernmost tip of the 30-acre project area, where the city envisions retail, a new school and at least 750 apartments—with 450 or more being permanently affordable. The Department of Housing Preservation and Development is seeking design proposals from developers and will ultimately select a team to do the project.

"We are looking for dynamic ideas for these remaining city-owned sites at Hunter's Point South," said Vicki Been, head of the city housing agency.

The pair of sites, between 56th and 57th avenues, are two of seven that constitute the overall Hunter's Point South project authorized by a 2008 rezoning under the Bloomberg administration. The first two parcels, between Borden and 50th avenues, were completed last year by a team led by Related Cos.

The third development parcel has not gone as smoothly. More than two years after the city selected TF Cornerstone to build roughly 1,200 units on a plot between Borden and 54th avenues, the project is still facing design difficulties because of complex infrastructure, including an easement for Amtrak's 34th Street tunnel, beneath the site. In 2013, the city completed a waterfront park near the three parcels.

Work is currently underway on extending that waterfront park beyond 57th Avenue along the remaining four parcels: two that are being used as staging areas for construction equipment and two others that are the plots now being offered up for development.

In the city's request for proposals expected to be released Thursday, developers are required to dedicate at least 60% of the apartments to permanently affordable housing geared toward a variety of household incomes. The developer will determine rent levels, though the city said it prefers proposals that skew toward serving lower-income households. In addition, responses will need to include community facility space, which is rented to a certain class of tenant deemed to have some sort of community benefit, such as a nonprofit or a doctor.

The city has also committed to building a school on one of the plots, which City Council Majority Leader Jimmy Van Bramer said is sorely needed in the growing neighborhood.

"We have had this enormous influx of new residents, but schools just haven't kept pace," said Van Bramer, who also recently helped negotiate to have a school included in TF Cornerstone's building. Both have already been funded and will be built by the School Construction Authority.

Proposals are due in September, and the city expects to announce a winner in early 2017.

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http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article...he-long-island

[chris08876]

Credit: JC_Heights

[Design-mind]

^^^ I recall from another proposal drawing a pedestrian bridge from Hunters point over Newtown Creek to Greenpoint as well, which does not show up on the master plan.

[tdawg]

Construction on the new southern end of the park is going like gangbusters.

[chris08876]

Hunters Point South development moves forward after years of delays


The updated plans, right, calls for taller towers than the original plans, as well as open space between the buildings

TF Cornerstone on Thursday filed the first permits to build a nearly 1,200-unit apartment building on a prime piece of city-owned waterfront property in Queens, a proceeding made remarkable by the fact that the developer won the right to build back in late 2013.

Considering its scale, the Long Island City development typically would have taken between two to three years to complete. But the project has been held up by wrangling between the developer and state and federal agencies, as well as the city, nearly tripling the construction timeline and forcing a major redesign of the building.

Early on, the developer came up against Amtrak, which owns a rail tunnel running beneath the center of the site and thus needed to sign off on the project’s plans. To avoid interfering with the train line, TF Cornerstone and ODA Architecture divvied up most of the units between a pair of buildings occupying separate sides of the property. Ten floors of apartments would be built at ground level between the towers, but these would be placed on a concrete slab supported by the buildings in order to keep weight off the tunnel. However, as TF Cornerstone pushed forward with these plans, an even bigger problem emerged.

“We knew there was an easement for a power line under the site, but what we didn’t fully understand was that the New York Power Authority would not allow any construction over it at all," said Jon McMillan, director of planning for TF Cornerstone.

Bloomberg-era planners had thought a compromise could be reached with the authority that would allow for a building on the site while still giving maintenance crews access to the power line. After a lengthy back and forth, it became clear that the developer would have to rethink the project and leave the center of the property open.

The redesigned structure keeps the same overall unit count, with the apartments in the center redistributed to taller towers on each side. The de Blasio administration also negotiated for lower income brackets to have access to the roughly 800 units enrolled in the city’s affordable housing program. Along with a local councilman, officials also arranged for a new elementary school to be included in the project. The agreement being finalized with Amtrak will also allow TF Cornerstone to build a one-story retail structure in the space between the towers.

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http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article...-four-years-of