Project Description
The proposal involves a request from the project sponsor, Victory Baptist Equities, LLC for construction financing from HPD to facilitate the development of a new affordable housing building in the Forest Houses neighborhood of the Bronx, Community District 3. The proposed project would be developed through HPDs Mix and Match Program. The project site is located at 1007 Union Avenue, Bronx NY (Block 2669, Lots 24, 26, 29, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, 80), at the southwest corner of Union Avenue and East 165th Street. The project site measures approximately 38,580 square feet (sf). Currently five of the lots that comprise the project site are developed with buildings, including Lots 36 and 38 which include the Victory Baptist church, and four of the lots consist of vacant land. Under the proposal, the existing buildings on the project site would be demolished to facilitate the new construction of the proposed project, a new six-story building approximately 101,044 gross square feet (gsf) containing 96 units of affordable housing and approximately 7,975 sf of community facility space for the relocation of the Victory Baptist church. The Victory Baptist church has already relocated to a Presbyterian Church close by, and their records and possessions have been placed in storage.