Mixed-use building over a subway station / Construction Phase

The proposed design for Site B in the Hoyt-Schermerhorn Urban Renewal Plan is planned in two phases: Phase 1 includes an 8-story mixed-use building with 158 apartments, retail stores, and indoor parking at Schermerhorn Street. Phase 2 includes the design of new infill townhouses on State Street. The development team was selected in a competitive RFP by the Empire State Development Corporation with community based design guidelines.

The building designs are intended to form a transition in scale from the commercial activity of downtown Brooklyn to the residential character of "brownstone Brooklyn". The 8-story building is located above the Hoyt-Schermerhorn subway station which was designed to support a future building. However, new seismic criteria requires a first floor truss-like structure isolated from the subway structure and anchored by pile foundations at the adjacent townhouse sites.  As a result, the 447-ft. frontage is treated as one building, with a central lobby leading to three elevator cores, and is divided equally between market-rate and affordable rental units.  The Phase 2 townhouses will be a market-rate condominium.