Q&A
Tenant involvement and communication during construction
0:18:29
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Council Member Mercedes Narcisse inquires about tenant involvement and communication during the construction process for occupied units. Alessandra Woodman from MHANY Management explains their approach to keeping tenants informed and comfortable during renovations.
- Regular tenant meetings are held with the team, HPD, contractors, and architects to discuss plans and next steps
- Renovations are done by sectors (e.g., kitchen) to minimize disruption
- Temporary facilities are provided, and daily cleaning is performed to maintain livability
Mercedes Narcisse
0:18:29
And my question is, while the construction is going on, how much involved the tenants are because they're already occupied.
0:18:39
Are you keeping them up to date on a regular basis?
0:18:42
Is the contractors?
0:18:44
I mean, introducing if are you introducing the contractors, whoever doing the construction?
0:18:49
With the tenants and to understand the rule and regulation, what can be done, those things are being discussed.
Alessandra Woodman
0:18:57
Absolutely.
0:18:58
We'll have 10 and meetings with our team, HPD, the contractors, and the architects to go through what is the next steps, what is the plan, how does the actual renovation is gonna be with the tenants in place.
0:19:13
So they are they'll feel more comfortable of what's what's what's next.
0:19:18
So when we do renovation with tenants in place, we normally work by sectors.
0:19:25
So for example, we're doing the kitchen.
0:19:26
We try and leave some space for a temporary kitchen for them.
0:19:29
And every day, the contractors work there and they clean the space after, so Russians could be leaving there in some way, comfortably while we do the work.