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By Alan G. Brake
A brownfield in the South Bronx is about to be greened, thanks to a sustainable
housing competition conducted by the Department of Housing Preservation and
Development (HPD) and AIA New York. An architect-developer team consisting of
Grimshaw Architects, Dattner Architects, Phipps Houses, and Jonathan Rose
Companies won the competition with a proposal to design 202 units of housing
along with commercial and open space on a long, narrow 60,000-acre site. The
city is giving the property, a vacant lot and an abandoned rail right-of-way to
the development team for $1 to underwrite the project’s affordability requirement.
Named Via Verde, or the Green Way, the project includes an 18-story tower,
midrise units and townhouses “threaded like a ribbon through the site,” said Vincent Chang, senior architect at Grimshaw’s New York office. More than half of the housing, which is a mix of rentals and
units for sale, will be reserved for low-income residents, with the remaining
portion set aside for moderate and middle-income residents.
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