Queens developer files to rezone a Bushwick parking lot for a 13-story building with about 321 apartments
The application asks the city to allow housing on a lot zoned for manufacturing since 1962. About 81 of the apartments would be permanently affordable, and public review has not started.
Queens developer files to rezone a Bushwick parking lot for a 13-story building with about 321 apartments
The application asks the city to allow housing on a lot zoned for manufacturing since 1962. About 81 of the apartments would be permanently affordable, and public review has not started.
In an application the Department of City Planning acknowledged Nov. 5, the owner of a Bushwick parking lot at 900 Wyckoff Ave. asks the city to rezone the site for a 13-story building with about 321 apartments, roughly 81 of them permanently affordable.
The lot has been zoned for manufacturing since 1962, which bars housing there. The application seeks zoning for a 142-foot building, taller than the up-to-nine-story zoning that the department’s 2018 draft plan for Bushwick recommended for this stretch of Wyckoff Avenue, according to the filing.
The application was filed by Criterion Group, a Queens developer, on behalf of 900 Wyckoff Avenue Industrial LLC, which bought the lot and the adjoining parcel for $6.7 million in 2021, according to a deed recorded with the city. The LLC lists the same Astoria address as other companies registered in Criterion’s care, according to state business filings.
The project description the applicant filed Oct. 13 calls for about 261,049 square feet of floor area: 241,849 square feet of apartments and 19,200 square feet of commercial space, with…
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