By Rachel Holliday Smith, DNAinfo.com
The city officially unveiled a plan Thursday to create new housing and recreation space in a former military armory in Crown Heights, a project which will come under public review next fall, the project’s developer said.
The 515,000-square-foot redevelopment of the Bedford-Union Armory will include 24 private condominiums, a new 13-story rental building with 330 market-rate and affordable units and a 45,000-square-foot recreation center inside the building’s domed drill hall, the city Economic Development Corporation said.
The EDC chose two developers — BFC Partners and Slate Property Group — to jointly redevelop the armory under the name “Bedford Courts LLC.”
The group will purchase a portion of the President Street side of the armory outright to be converted into market-rate condominiums, the EDC said; the rest of the property will be developed by Bedford Courts under a long-term lease.
Bedford Courts will also build out the building’s sports center, set to include a swimming pool, indoor turf field and multiple basketball courts, with funding from The Carmelo Anthony Foundation, according to the plan.
A 500-seat auditorium, classroom space for nearby Medgar Evers College and community event space are also in the works, the EDC said.
On the east side of the armory, the developers hope to replace a parking garage with a 13-story, 360,000-square-foot rental building to include half market-rate units and half affordable units for middle- and low-income families.
At Thursday’s announcement, the EDC estimated the project would create approximately 600 temporary construction jobs during the build-out and 200 permanent jobs within the armory.
where are our community leaders? some of this space should provide for alleviation of our community’s needs
with you # two
Very nice but nothing for the Jewish community…..
It was a nice place to build real CH JCC there with all community needs …..we are the only community without zero place for our kids even as simple as basketball inside court …..
It would have been wonderful if someone from our community was one of the buyers. Do you think that this plan will include the same amount of space as before to accommodate the kinus or are those days over.