# WHITE PLAINS | Brookfield Commons Redevelopment **URL:** \ **Category:** Under Construction\ **Created:** [August 8, 2014, 7:27pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/white-plains-brookfield-commons-redevelopment/685 "2014-08-08T19:27:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MrVenaCava](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/mrvenacava/32/1526_2.png) [@MrVenaCava](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/MrVenaCava)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 7:27pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/white-plains-brookfield-commons-redevelopment/685/1 "2014-08-08T19:27:33Z")
## [Revealed: The Prelude, White Plains](http://www.newyorkyimby.com/2014/08/revealed-the-prelude-white-plains.html) BY: STEPHEN SMITH ON AUGUST 8TH 2014 AT 6:00 AM ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/yimby/original/3X/5/8/5871e226dfafc68e2e892107311f7accc9219c44.jpeg) _The Prelude, rendering by Dattner Architects_ > In most of America’s largest cities, post-war public housing towers have been torn down and replaced with more urban designs. New York City is the exception – whether because of the relatively good condition of our projects during the dark days of urban decline, or the militantly hostile attitude towards redevelopment held by tenant groups today. > To our north, though, the city of White Plains doesn’t have the same hang-ups. There, the White Plains Housing Authority is moving forward with redevelopment schemes for its aging public housing towers. ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/yimby/original/3X/0/c/0c9b4d6067b1f3ddd283ee99d6310880e6a0a737.jpeg) _The Prelude, rendering by Dattner Architects_ > Among the city’s modernization projects is the Prelude, whose rendering YIMBY has stumbled upon. At the corner of South Lexington Avenue and Quarropas Street, just a few blocks from the White Plains stop on Metro-North’s Harlem Line, the Jonathan Rose Companies was selected to build a 10-story affordable housing development. Per the press release: > > The Prelude […] includes 104 new affordable housing apartments, and a 13,500-square foot community center. It is the first phase in the redevelopment of Brookfield Commons (previously named Winbrook Campus), 450 public housing units build in 1949. The cost for this first phase will be $42.18 million. The future phases will replace all of the older, out-of-date towers with new, green mixed-income buildings, planned so that the current residents will never have to move off-site. > According to the Journal News, the community space will house “job-training programs and an employment center operated by the White Plains Youth Bureau.” > Groundbreaking occurred in April, and the new building is slated to be completed by next spring. Residents in the older brick buildings will then be moved into the new one, after which the old projects will be razed. Master Plan: ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/yimby/original/3X/8/0/80da732ca2daf6d03ac4122d1e993780aafb0173.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![chris08876](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/chris08876/32/1617_2.png) [@chris08876](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/chris08876)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 7:30pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/white-plains-brookfield-commons-redevelopment/685/2 "2014-08-08T19:30:31Z")
This is nice. They are doing the same thing in Brooklyn actually as well, converting some of the older housing projects into new looking towers with modern features, and cladding along with improving the streetscape. Hopefully they could do this in Newark, NJ one day. ---
**Author:** ![MrVenaCava](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/mrvenacava/32/1526_2.png) [@MrVenaCava](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/MrVenaCava)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 7:40pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/white-plains-brookfield-commons-redevelopment/685/3 "2014-08-08T19:40:22Z")
It looks like a huge improvement. Folks are now ditching the “towers-in-the-park” idea and going for an urbanized layout. According to the site plan, another tower will front South Lexington, and Brookfield Street looks to be built through to Quarropas. Also, there’s the other eastern side of the complex that isn’t pictured in the site plan. ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/yimby/original/3X/4/9/49cadeb5c4eba3f6f441f3bfec0ecaa23550be89.jpeg) _GMAPS_ ---
**Author:** ![MrVenaCava](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/mrvenacava/32/1526_2.png) [@MrVenaCava](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/MrVenaCava)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 7:46pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/white-plains-brookfield-commons-redevelopment/685/4 "2014-08-08T19:46:59Z")
> [@chris08876](#): > > Hopefully they could do this in Newark, NJ one day. And there’s plenty of these complexes in Manhattan (East Harlem, LES) that need to be totally razed and rebuilt in a similar fashion. Restore the grid! ---
**Author:** ![YIMHudson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/yimhudson/32/2304_2.png) [@YIMHudson](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/YIMHudson)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 9:30pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/white-plains-brookfield-commons-redevelopment/685/5 "2018-06-25T21:30:27Z")
as I posted over a year ago now, the prelude is complete. I’m re-purposing this thread for the larger redevelopment of this housing neighborhood. Here is the next phase. > **[Winbrook public housing redevelopment moving forward in White Plains](https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/white-plains/2018/06/22/winbrook-now-brookfield-commons-moves-forward-white-plains/722039002/)** > > The city is considering the White Plains Housing Authority's application for construction of a new apartment building on the former Winbrook campus. **135 S. Lexington Ave | 9 floors | 129 units** ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/yimby/original/3X/3/c/3c4f3208848731add22cff1d7b49e8a9587cf404.jpeg) > When the entire complex redevelopment is finished, Brookfield Commons will house approximately 1,200 apartments, retail and recreation space and various amenities including bike racks, rooftop terraces outdoor sitting and play areas. The campus will have one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom apartments at affordable, workforce and market rates. > > Plans call for Brookfield Street to be extended through the complex from East Post Road to Quarropas Street. A new road through the campus, “Future Street,” is also being planned. Officials said **the idea is to reconnect Brookfield Commons to the street grid and downtown and break down the massive public housing ‘superblock’** bounded by South Lexington Avenue and Quarropas Street, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and East Post Road. **The Prelude** ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/yimby/original/3X/5/b/5bdfaa8ed39c5acf7dfec30f3b40ed7e1ea581b9.jpeg) ---
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> [@WHITE PLAINS | Development News](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/white-plains-development-news/1774/192): > > The Overture at Brookfield Commons will consist of the construction of a nine story, 146,115 square foot mixed use building with 129 apartments and 2,074 square feet of community facility space. The project will also include 77 at-grade parking spaces (75 for residents and 2 for the community facility space). This multi-family building will have 40 one-bedroom apartments, 63 two-bedroom apartments, 23 three-bedroom apartments, two four-bedroom apartments and one superintendent’s uni… ---
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As plain as it gets… ---
**Author:** ![Waymond\_Womano](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/waymond_womano/32/7078_2.png) [@Waymond\_Womano](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/Waymond_Womano)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2020, 10:42pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/white-plains-brookfield-commons-redevelopment/685/8 "2020-11-25T22:42:12Z")
Earlier today **The Prelude** ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/yimby/original/3X/7/1/71b9f65dc81245c1e0f2748bde0866cb9ca5e5f3.jpeg) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/yimby/original/3X/c/a/ca964e4cf0fe32ddc5a4b73e69b1388f00c053f4.jpeg) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/yimby/original/3X/9/7/97e346cecdb67d555d6132adca74b4b407bc2b33.jpeg) **135 South Lexington Avenue** ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/yimby/original/3X/f/1/f1a868551de3c6b62ebf445b8a7289eed91045d1.jpeg) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/yimby/original/3X/2/5/2575d7f39e358685f5b41f5489a1656e08ba4cd1.jpeg) As seen from dead end of Brookfield Street ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/yimby/original/3X/e/4/e4e237fa9559ee7e91f3a7720aaa28efb3f3c584.jpeg) ---
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> **[Phase two of Brookfield Commons opens - Westfair Communications](https://westfaironline.com/151021/phase-two-of-brookfield-commons-opens/)** > > The formal opening of The Overture, the second new apartment building to be constructed at Brookfield Commons, which used to be better known as the Winbrook Public Housing complex in downtown White Plains, took place July 21 with a ribbon-cutting...