NEW ROCHELLE — With two more developments getting the green light on Tuesday, the city is about three-quarters of the way to its maximum build-out allowed in the downtown.
That’s not including applications that haven’t been made public yet but are close to completion.
This is part of the city’s plan to revitalize its sleepy downtown that started a new zone established, in December 2015, that allows 5,500 apartments to be built, along with commercial and retail space.
“We’re moving quicker than expected,” Commissioner of Development Luiz Aragon said. “At this point, we have enough projects that we see in the pipeline that will cover all of the units that we envisioned.”
On Tuesday, the Planning Board approved the site plans for the following projects:
- Twin, 14-story apartment buildings at 327 and 339 Huguenot St. with a total of 285 units. The two buildings will be connected by a pedestrian bridge and have retail space at street level.
- 11 Garden St., a 20-story apartment building with 219 affordable housing units. The costs depend on income eligibility. For example a one-bedroom apartment will be priced between $41,000 and $65,600, according to Westchester County.
With these new buildings, New Rochelle’s downtown plan now includes 4,056 residential units in 17 developments.
Aragon said the residential portion of the downtown revitalization plan will be followed by commercial and retail development.
In the next two months, six more projects, at least one of which is commercial, are scheduled to be unveiled, Aragon said.
the commercial one is good news. Everything has been residential or hotel so far. New Ro could use some new office tenants. We know at least 3 of those six will be within DO1 as well at 48, 28 and 24 stories. The new skyline is coming.
I hope the future 48-story tower entices people enough to finally pay attention to the quickly growing downtown. I know not many people care about what happens outside of NYC (within the “suburbs” at least), but it’s very exciting. I have a strong feeling that office space will play a big role with the largest development. We could definitely use it as well. We need a signature tower badly!
If I weren’t so modelling illiterate I would try my hand at superimposing all of the towers planned into a photo of the skyline… but I have no idea where to start. Something like this decade’s old example, but with all of the new projects;
Great new video posted on the Ideally New Rochelle website including clips of multiple development projects. At the end, you can see the new skyline. It doesn’t show the projects that are yet to be proposed, like a 48-story tower. It’s funny how in the post above I asked for something like this lol
I took a couple of mins to list all of the projects.
Click for full res.
You can view the video on the site, you’ll have to scroll down a bit though. Can’t find a direct link.
EDIT: The mayor’s State of the City address is tomorrow. Perhaps, like what happened last year, we’ll be treated with a first look at some more projects. I’ll be sure to share anything.
regarding the moratorium; 3 planned DO1 highrises are being given priority, including one at the maximum height of 48 stories.
That isn’t related to the gas moratorium, that’s related to the overall cap on approved residential units included in New Rochelle’s Downtown Overlay Zone.
https://www.newrochelleny.com/DocumentCenter/View/6823/Step-by-Step-Guide?bidId=
There is a cap overall of 6,370 residential units that are allowed to get Planning Board approval in the DOZ. Basically, after the cap is reached, no more new projects will be able to apply for Planning Board approval unless the zoning is changed.
Additionally there are also specific caps that apply in each of the subsections of the DOZ: 1500 in DO-1, 2900 in DO-2, and 550 in DO-3, etc. That’s why he’s talking about “shifting units around”–e.g., moving units from the DO-3 cap to the DO-2 cap, or using an 800-unit reserve that isn’t designated to any specific zone.
It’s actually a very unusual system and I’ve never seen a zoning system like it anywhere else. I mean, less than 500 units have actually been built or are under construction, but because other people put forward proposals (which might take years to build out), the owners of the remaining properties in the zone will no longer be allowed to build residential units or even propose to build them, regardless of the merits of their plans or whether they’re realistic or not. I think it encourages developers to submit pie-in-the-sky proposals so they can sneak in under the cap.
Maybe they’ll change the zoning in the near future when the cap is reached and issues start popping up with the system …
Sadly this isn’t a realistic view. Church-Division would be to the far right in this clip, but I believe they positioned the two dual-tower developments together in the clip for a more dramatic effect. Also, the 14 LeCount model is actually in the wrong orientation lol.
Maybe I’m just too nit-picky.
no, i noticed that too. 
The ideallynewrochelle.com website is down today due to a certification error. I sent along notice to the commissioner. Looking forward to watching the video.
At the Standard they are working on the glazing. Instead of using the mullions for the patterning, they are using the glass. The Standard: New Rochelle Development Rendering from Capelli Organization/LRC Constuction.
There are plans to demolish the defunct Blessed Sacrament school and replace it with an 8-story apartment building.
Because the sale hasn’t been completed, the Archdiocese and the developer declined comment. Blessed Sacrament Parish also declined comment.
The developer has plans to build 338 apartments with an accompanying underground garage and a parish center on the 2.23-acre property, according to the developer’s application to the city.
A few updates from New Rochelle:
The fencing is up at 277 North, so it seems demo is pending.
The containers are stacking up on Garden Street to be installed at New Ro Studios.
They removed the asbestos paint at 14 LeCount before demo.
National Grid is considering a gas moratorium, like ConEd. This one would affect LI, Staten Island, Brooklyn & Queens. Check out Fios1, Ray Raimundo piece here: Fiber-Optic Internet Provider with Gigabit Connection | Verizon Fios
And just like that New Ro Studios on Burling Lane has gone vertical today. We received this photo from ELD properties at 7:30pm tonight and hope to get some video later in the week. Check out our progress photo sequence on this project on our website here: http://www.101010nr.com/maps/dev.asp?DevProjID=dev10
John went to New Ro Studios today and took photos/video of three boxes being installed. The Pennsylvania company sent their own expert crew who made it look so easy. Weather was a bit of a factor. They hope to install in 10 days. You can see the kitchen and piping. You can see our photo series here: NewRo Studios: New Rochelle Development
Video in progress.
Part 3 of the gas moratorium series by @ RayTheNewsman at @ FiOS1NewsLHV – Ray interviews pipeline protesters as they cross the Brooklyn Bridge. http://fios1news.com/news/stop-the-pipeline-rally-brooklyn-bridge/ …
We put together a 1-ish minute video that shows 3 prefab boxes being installed over 1.5 hours. The ELD Properties brought in the team from Professional Builders Systems (https://www.pbsmodular.com/) from Pennsylvania to do the install and they made it look easy. New Ro Studios on April 22, 2019 on Vimeo
This is an artist live-work project with “73 studio apartments below market rate, a rooftop music performance space, an art gallery lobby and 3,000 square feet of artist work space in the basement.”
It looks like there is a deal to lift the Westchester gas moratorium, but the moratorium will likely continue for 4 more years. In the meanwhile, in New Rochelle, they are installing new gas lines now downtown. Pipeline Expansion Deal Could Lift Westchester Natural Gas Moratorium by 2023 | GlobeSt
Almost wrapped up at New Ro Studios. Photos taken 5/1/19.
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Can anyone comment on the life expectancy of modular multi-family buildings? How long are they expected to last? Thanks,