Floors Rise, Concrete Poured at Bushwick Avenue Church Conversion

Steel is rising quickly on an empty lot next to the former St. Mark’s St. Mark’s Lutheran School and Evangelical Church at 626-628 Bushwick Avenue in Bushwick. Developer Cayuga Capital is developing the church, the old school building, and this corner lot into a total of 99 apartments, as previously reported. The new address for the project seems to be 616 Bushwick Avenue, according to permits on the corner.

The development is slated to be completed in late 2015, Cayuga told us, although an older sign on the site gives February 2014 as the estimated completion date. A boarded-up tenement building on this corner — where Swoon pasted art in a doorway — was torn down in 2011. Since then the lot has been empty until a few months ago.

When we passed by in late August, cement concrete was being poured for the floors. We took the photo above this past weekend. The ones below were taken in August.

A seven-story building is planned for this corner (technically, it’s a “horizontal addition”) with 12 parking spots, bike storage and private roof terraces, per alteration permits. And the church and 1892 school, designed by Theobald Engelhardt, are being retrofitted with apartments. Hustvedt Cutler Architects is designing the project, which will have studios, one-, two and three-bedrooms. Twenty percent of the units will be affordable, according to BuzzBuzzHome.

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