Affordable Housing or Lack Thereof
We know from Michael Kimmelman’s premiere review in The Times that Via Verde, the affordable housing complex in the South Bronx, is just about the best thing since humans decided to stop living in caves. It turns out it is not just a new model for mixed-income housing, and a pretty one at that, but also a great place to live. Read More
Affordable Housing or Lack Thereof
At $60 to power a 100-watt light blub, solar energy isn’t cheap. Neither are the locally grown foods at the weekly farmer’s market. But with the help of some coveted stimulus money, environmentally sustainable living is no longer a luxury for 200 Harlem families. A row of 10 apartment building on West 135th Street have just been transformed by Jonathan Rose Companies, the first such project to benefit from H.U.D.’s Green Retrofit Program. Read More
One of the largest development sites left in the city has attracted some serious interest from some serious players. The Journal is reporting that seven bids have been made for the first phase of Hunters Point South, a planned 6,000-unit housing complex in Queens that was originally to be the site of Read More
From April through September of last year, the 15 biggest commercial real estate investors in New York traded over $16.17 billion in property. Over the next six months, following the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the new 15 biggest traded around $1.892 billion, or barely one-tenth as much.
It’s not so much the dollar amounts—everyone knows Read More
Editor’s note: Welcome to a fresh regular feature here on The Real Estate: Building Stories. It’s about new developments.
There’s a hole in the ground in East Harlem at the base of the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge. When it’s filled, you’ll be able to see it coming over from Read More
On Tuesday, Jonathan Rose Companies broke ground on the first affordable housing and mixed-income apartment building in East Harlem developed to LEED Silver standards. Called Tapestry, the 12-story, 185-unit building, with 8,000 square feet of ground-floor retail, will rise at 124th Street and Second Avenue, at the base of what’s becoming today officially the Robert Read More
Location: Your company has a very clearly defined mission to build mixed-income, environmentally sensitive buildings close to transit. Why did you leave your family’s business and set this one up?
Mr. Rose: Everything I do draws from the legacy of having been a partner of Rose Associates for 13 years and having grown up Read More
As the Mayor’s race begins to heat up, perhaps it’s a good
time to prompt some discussion about not only crime, schools and jobs, but
something both more conceptual and more concrete, such as what kind of city we
want to be.
The words “urban” and
“suburban” are irritatingly vague, and used as both Read More
