Melrose Development
With all the construction going on in Melrose, the neighborhood deserves its own thread.
The neighborhood is being reborn with infill development at the high-density level that once existed. In my view, it is the ultimate urban redevelopment success story. Here is a partial list of the buildings recently completed or under construction in Melrose:
- Melrose Villa Hermosa - 823 Melrose Av. (159th/160th) ~60 apts. - c. 2003
- Palacio del Sol - 760 Melrose Av. (156th/157th) - 110 apts. + retail - 2006
- Peter Cintron Apts. - 415. E. 157th St. / 404 E. 158th St. (at Melrose) - 165 apts. + retail - 2006
- Courtlandt Av. Apts. - 303 E. 158th St. / 320 E. 159th St. (Courtlandt/Park) - 125 apts - 2006
- Parkview Commons I - 871 Elton Av. (160th/161st) - 98 apts. + retail - 2006
- Parkview Commons II - 406 E. 161st St. (Elton/Melrose) - 78 apts. + retail - 2007
- La Puerta de Vitalidad - 3103 Third Av. (158th/159th) - ~60 apts. + retail - c. 2007
- The Aurora - 837 Washington (159th/160th) - 90 apts. condo - c. 2008
- The Orion - 3044 Third Av. (156th/157th) + 61 apts. condo + retail - 2008
- The Dorado - 3055 Third Av. (156th/157th) - 48 apts. + retail - 2009
- The Eltona - 429 E. 156th St. (Elton/Melrose) - 63 apts. - 2009
- Courtlandt Corners - 890 Courtlandt Av. / 370 E. 162nd St. / 875 Melrose Av. - 252 apts. + retail - 2010
- El Jardin de Seline - Melrose Av. & 158th St - 85 apts + retail? - 2010
- Boricua Village / Northrose - more than 500 apts. + community college campus + retail - 2010
- La Terraza - 3100 Third Av. (158th) - 107 apts. - 2011
- St. Ann's Terrace - St. Ann's Av. from 156th to 159th Sts. - 600 apts. - 2011
What buildings am I forgetting?
If anyone has photos of these buildings, under construction or completed, please post!
I'll get things started with a photo of what is probably my favorite building so far, El Jardin de Seline. Here's how it appeared today, Sunday, October 18, 2009.
Good idea Interloafer. I do request one thing though: tell (or better yet if you can) show us what was there before.
Nothing feels better than to see good development replacing what was before a blighted vacant or parking lots.
Also, I love to see how most of those projects are mixed-use. Retail on the ground floors are a good thing.
Based on Google maps and Bing's bird's eye views, El Jardin de Seline was built on an empty lot created by a long-stalled low density development project that got as far as the foundation before being halted.
Most of the buildings in the list above were built on vacant lots or surface parking or a combination thereof. That is what makes this redevelopment plan all the more worthy of praise and emulation. Empty lots were targeted for redevelopment, and efforts have been made to retain existing urban fabric where ever possible.
It's amazing what a little attention to detail (the red brick striping, the deco-inspired crown up top) can do to make what would otherwise be a mundane box into something much better.Originally Posted by TheInterloafer
Thanks for posting.
Nearly every building that might be posted in this thread was on empty lots. Relatively few were built over existing structures as far as I know.
I am 99% sure that there was a decent amount of aerial photography of the neighborhood going several years back (predating the current Google maps images, which are a few years old themselves) that was taken from a plane or helicopter, as I had found a couple of photos many years back, but I never saw the rest of the set, assuming there is a "set".
HDC Approves $43 Million for Via Verde Apts.
HDC Approves $43 Million for Via Verde Apts
NEW YORK, NY, December 3rd, 2009– The New York City Housing Development Corporation (HDC) Board of Directors voted today to approve $43 million in taxable Multi-Family Mortgage Revenue Bonds and Cooperative Housing Mortgage Revenue Bonds for the new construction of Via Verde Apartments and Via Verde Cooperative Apartments, located in the Bronx.
The developments will be built on a vacant urban renewal site at 700 Brook Avenue, on the Southeast corner of East 156th Street and when completed will contain 151 rental units and 71 cooperative apartments. The city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) currently controls a portion of the site, with remainder expected to be purchased by the mortgagors, Via Verde Rental Management Corporation and Rose Via Verde Homes Manager. Via Verde will be a LEED-Gold development with three distinct building types: one 20-story tower at the north end of the site, six 12-story mid-rise buildings in the middle and three to four-story townhouses to the south. The rental units will make up the tower and the northern portion of the midrise buildings, and the co-op units are located in the lower portion of the midrise and the townhouses. Retail and community facility spaces are located in the center portion midrise buildings.
The Via Verde Apartments will include three condominium units: residential, commercial and community. This building will have 151 units, 12 will be studios, 48 one-bedroom units, 74 two-bedroom units and 17 three-bedroom units. All of the units will be rented to households earning no more than 60% of the Area Median Income (AMI), which is $46,080 for a family of four.
The Via Verde Cooperative Apartments, the 4th unit in the condominium, is expected to have 71 co-op units: seven one-bedrooms, 55 two-bedroom units and nine three-bedroom units. The cooperative portion will be affordable to households warning between 70% AMI ($53,760 for a family of four) and 100% AMI ($76,800 for a family of four). HDC will provide $6.5M for the first permanent mortgage loan to the cooperative cooperation.
About the New York City Housing Development Corporation (HDC):
The New York City Housing Development Corporation (HDC) provides a variety of financing programs for the creation and preservation of multi-family affordable housing throughout the five boroughs of New York City. Our programs are designed to meet the wide-range of affordable housing needs of the City's economically diverse population. In partnership with the NYC Department of Housing Preservation & Development, HDC works to implement out Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s New Housing Marketplace plan to create of preserve 165,000 affordable housing units by 2014. Since the plan launched in 2004, HDC financed more than 43,000 homes for low- , moderate- and middle-income New Yorkers. The New York City Housing Development Corporation is rated AA by S&P and Aa2 by Moody’s.
Melrose Rising: New Developments on the Horizon
Cortlandt Corners construction update - April 3, 2010
Cortlandt Corners is coming along nicely. Here are two shots of the north building on 161st Street.
Great progress on Melrose Commons! What a huge turnaround!
I'll be the first to admit that I really like the sight of two huge crains on the South Bronx skyline. Here are two shots of St. Ann's Terrace under construction as of April 10, from 159th Street and St. Ann's Avenue. Check out the slope of 159th Street!
Via Verde
Nice to see Via Verde up, this is how affordable housing should be done!
I can't believe how beautiful this is. It's just perfect. 1941 Moderne. IMHO, in it's own simple way, this exterior is on par with 15CPW and the better replicas downtown. Very, very good:
Last edited by Fabrizio; January 3rd, 2011 at 08:14 AM.
^ I agree. You can't keep a great style down. Elegance in simplicity or exuberance in embellishment - works either way.
Jardin de Selene is awesome indeed. The entry mosaic is ridiculously beautiful too, and the apartments aren't bad either.
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