Business
& Labor
New York Launches Affordable Housing Competition
(archrecord.construction.com - 06/20/2006)
By Tony
Illia
New York City and the AIA New York Chapter
on June 12 launched a design-development competition for an
affordable, sustainable housing complex in the South Bronx.
The 40,000-square-foot competition site is located at the
southeast corner of East 156th Street and Brook Avenue. The
steeply sloped, city-owned property has a retaining wall and
an abandoned railroad track with 20,000 square feet of air
rights.
The $4 million site will be sold to
the winning team for a nominal fee for building low, middle,
and moderate income housing. The competition is part of Mayor
Bloomberg's 10-year plan to build 165,000 affordable housing
units. Requests for proposals to the two-step competition,
dubbed "The New Housing New York Legacy Project,"
are due July 24, 2006. Designs will be reviewed by a jury
in January 2007 with a public display at the Center for Architecture
in Greenwich Village. For more information contact the AIA
New York Chapter at 212-683-0023.
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