Process begins for affordable housing development at Stapleton waterfront site
Updated Dec 19, 2020;
Posted Dec 19, 2020
An aerial shot shows the Stapleton waterfront that will be part of the Bay Street Corridor neighborhood plan. (Courtesy of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. City officials began Friday to solicit proposals for an affordable housing development coming to Stapleton’s shorefront.
Proposals to the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) for the 108,000-square-foot, city-owned site, which is part of the 35-acre decommissioned Navy base along Front Street, will need to include plans for 100% affordable housing, and be part of the Bay Street Corridor neighborhood plan.
The city has issued an RFP seeking developers for a two-acre
affordable housing project on Staten Island’s north shore.
Stapleton Site A is a vacant lot south of Hannah Street that is part of the New Stapleton Waterfront District, a 35-acre decommissioned Navy Base (rendering pictured top via HPD).
The New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC) is
overseeing the City’s redevelopment of the New Stapleton Waterfront into a
mixed-use neighborhood with housing, waterfront open space and retail and
community facility uses.
It will also include
significant infrastructure improvements such as road reconstruction, bicycle
and walking paths, and better connections to public transit.
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