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Details of the proposed development at 73-99 Empire Boulevard
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The proposed development is a 13-story mixed-use building with retail and residential components. The design takes into account the surrounding context and aims to create an active streetscape.
- 13-story, 145-foot tall mixed-use building
- 273,540 square feet of total floor area
- 98,000 square feet of commercial space in cellar, first, and second floors
- Varying street wall heights to fit within the context of surrounding streets
- Affordable grocery store planned for the ground floor
- National clothing stores on the second floor
- 90 parking spaces and 3 loading berths for commercial uses
- Residential entrance on McKeever Place, commercial entrances on Empire Boulevard
Eli Gewirtz
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And just giving you a sense of how the building would look within the surrounding context.
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So it's again, mentioned it's gonna be a 13 story mixed use building.
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Next slide, please.
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This is just a few more renderings of the site.
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This is looking at the site from the corner of Empire Boulevard and McHeever Place which is gonna be one of the primary retail entrances for the site.
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Next slide, please.
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This is a, view of the building from looking at it across the street from Empire Boulevard.
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As you could see, we've strategically designed the building working very closely with the Department of City Planning urban design team to have varying street wall heights that that are strategic with that fit within the the widths of the streets in which the site fronts.
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We have our taller street wall along Empire Boulevard which is a hundred feet wide and then setting back.
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And then we have our shorter street walls along McIver Place and Sullivan Place to the North which are narrower streets.
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Next slide, please.
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Here you can see how the site how the how the site fits within context of surrounding building heights.
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So of course, Ebbotts Field Houses to the immediate north is 224 feet, 25 stories.
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Our site is half the height of that.
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There's also taller buildings to the immediate Northwest at 54 Crown Street which is currently being built at to a 74 feet.
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And then one block north of that is Tivoli Towers which is 341 feet.
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So, demonstrating how our site our our building that we're proposing would be within context of similar building heights within the surrounding area.
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Next slide, please.
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So the proposed development would, as mentioned, would consist of a 13 story, a 45 foot building containing 63,000 commercial retail floor area above grade and the 31,000 in the cellar.
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We're looking to put in an affordable grocery store on the Ground Floor as well as national clothing afford affordable stores on the Second Floor making really making the site a a retail destination that would be which is really needed in this community.
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We're proposing various street wall heights, a five foot sidewalk widening along McIver Place.
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We're strategically locating the different uses around the site using the three site frontages to make sure there are no conflicts, between the uses that we're proposing.
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The residential entrance would be along McIver Place and the commercial entrances would be primarily along Empire Boulevard.
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And then we're providing a 90 parking spaces, 98 of which are required by the commercial program that's being proposed which requires one per 1,000 square feet of commercial floor area that would be accessible via curb cuts along the back of the site along Sullivan Place as well as three loading berths to accommodate the the commercial uses.
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So next slide, please.