The City Planning Commission approved the construction of a destination shopping complex and a single building with 180 units of affordable senior housing in the Bronx.
On June 21, 2017, the City Planning Commission issued a favorable report on a joint application from the Department of Citywide Administrative Services and Gun Hill Square LLC.
The application requested the disposition of city-owned property, three special permits, a zoning map amendment to upzone the site, and a zoning text amendment to designate the project as a Mandatory Inclusionary Housing area.
The applicant proposed the construction of a new pedestrian-oriented open-air urban shopping complex and a single-residential building containing 180 units of affordable senior housing.
The project site is a 12.6 acre lot bounded by East Gun Hill Road to the southwest and Edson Avenue to the northeast and south.
The City acquired the site in the 1980s to expand the adjacent New York City Transit Authority Gun Hill Bus Depot, which never occurred.
The site used to be the location of a private recreational center with a golf-driving range, miniature golf course, batting cage, parking lot and a restaurant. The buildings left from these businesses are abandoned and unused.
In 2012, the MTA and the City sent out a request for proposals to dispose of the property and build a pedestrian-oriented retail destination.
The effort was spearheaded by the Economic Development Corporation. The affordable senior housing was added as a requirement later in the process.
In 2013, Gun Hill Square LLC was chosen to develop the site......
http://www.citylandnyc.org/city-planning-approves-baychester-square-mall-bronx-city-council-next/.
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