Rendering for Six-Story Apartment Building Coming to Broadway Triangle
Here’s a first look at the rendering for a six-story rental building planned for 120 Union Avenue in Williamsburg’s Broadway Triangle. Aufgang Architects is designing the project, which will have 96 apartments spread across nearly 70,000 square feet, according to new building applications filed in September. Apartments will range from studios to four-bedrooms, and there will…
Here’s a first look at the rendering for a six-story rental building planned for 120 Union Avenue in Williamsburg’s Broadway Triangle. Aufgang Architects is designing the project, which will have 96 apartments spread across nearly 70,000 square feet, according to new building applications filed in September. Apartments will range from studios to four-bedrooms, and there will be 1,750 square feet of retail and 65 parking spots.
The exterior will be clad in “clay-coat architectural brick in a stacked bond pattern, detailed in break metal,” and the ground floor will feature “cast channel glass cladding and architectural grills, to allow natural ventilation in the first-floor garage and varying views to the interior.” Construction on the $18,500,000 development is expected to finish in January 2016, according to Aufgang.
Slate Property Group, Adam America and Naveh Shuster are the developers, and Meshberg Group will handle the interior design. In September, the three developers paid $15,500,000 for the property, which is home to a two-story car repair shop. They’re also going to build a six- or seven-story building a block away at 100 Union Avenue.
What do you think of the design?
Adam America Plans Six-Story Rental in the Broadway Triangle [Brownstoner] GMAP
Rendering by Aufgang Architects
Having researched this item further, it appears that the lot in question benefited from the zoning changes that the Urban Area Plan implemented but was not part of the proposed affordable housing project – the one that is being held up in court. Thus ironically, a plan that was intended to create affordable housing will see this market rate project go up before anything else does.
The ground-floor parking lot is really a shame. A building on a street like Union Ave should have retail — bodegas, dry cleaners, coffeeshops — on the ground floor.
Does anyone understand why zoning requires parking lots like this in neighborhoods where the vast majority of people walk and use transit?
The design is (surprisingly) pretty good and the six and seven floor height will both provide a goodly number of units without unduly distorting the scale of the surrounding community.
I have a few questions though. First, if, as the article implies, this site will be developed as straight rental apartments – with perhaps an 80/20 mix if a tax abatement is obtained – how is this consistent with the terms of the Broadway Triangle Urban Revewal Area, which provided for the development of a substantial number of affordable units? Also, how vulnerable will this development be if it is challenged by the perpetual lawsuit that has stalled any development in the triangle for many years? And., what is the status of that lawsuit and the proposed affordable housing projects that have been placed on (hopefully not) terminal hold?
Sorry to burst your car-hating bubble, but some people (not me since I don’t even have a license) do like to drive and some even find it a necessity to do so. Not everyone who might live here is heading into Manhattan. You don’t want to drive? Fine; don’t do it. Just don’t think that everyone has to follow your own agenda. That same sort of thinking is what all those Islamist imams espouse.
Probably, underground parking would be a better idea that ground-level and certainly retail would look better, particularly since the building design is itself rather attractive.
Perhaps I got this wrong, but I always thought that while the BTURA plan was approved, it was the highly contested housing contracts that would have implemented it that the lawsuit challenged. If this is correct, then this project becomes very problematic and is certainly subject to challenge. Hopefully Marty Needelman or one of his associates will get wind of this.