Showing posts with label 710 E. Ninth St.. Show all posts
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Update on the new community center and supportive housing on East 9th Street



The vendor registration for the 2013 Loisaida Festival (date: May 26) includes a mention of the group's "new Community Center" coming to Avenue C and East Ninth Street.

That would be at 710 E. Ninth St., just east of Avenue C, where workers are converting the former Henry Street Settlement Day Care #3 into a community facility space on the ground floor... with the upper levels serving as housing for homeless young adults and young adults no longer in the foster-care system.

Here's more information from the Loisaida Inc. website:

710 East 9th Street Building Development Project

With the support of the Manhttan Community Board #3 and the community, we were granted an equity position and standing in our original home, 710 East 9th Street. The result is a joint venture with Loisaida, Phipps Houses and University Settlement, a three-way partnership. Phipps Houses as the lead has supported and guided Loisaida thru the various stages of the development project.

The existing city-owned 4-story building on 9th Street was the 30-year home of Loisaida. It is being converted to a supportive housing facility and community center. The project will include 51 units of supportive housing with related program space located on floors two thru five.

Homeless young adults, young adults aging out of foster care and young single adults will occupy the residential units with children

Loisaida will occupy and operate a 10,000 sq. foot - new community center on cellar and first floor. This project is being developed though the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development HPD.

Our new community center will be a multi-generational and multifunctional facility offering services at no cost to local low-income residents of LES. We have incorporated a commercial kitchen, media center and performance space.

Occupancy is projected for 2013.

H/T MoRUS

Previously on EV Grieve:
Community center and supportive housing coming to East Ninth Street

Checking in on the community center-supportive housing project on East Ninth Street

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Checking in on the community center-supportive housing project on East Ninth Street

Here's a construction project that we haven't looked in on in some time. Over on East Ninth Street just east of Avenue C, workers are converting the former Henry Street Settlement Day Care #3 into a community facility space on the ground floor...


... the upper levels will house 46 units (28 studios and 12 one-bedroom apartments). The housing will serve homeless young adults and young adults aging out of the foster-care system. An additional 12 units will be set aside for young single adults with a child. The city OK'd plans to add an addition floor to the existing structure.

Here's how the renovations are going as of yesterday ... in these photos via Bobby Williams...



The project is a joint venture among Phipps Houses ... University Settlement/The Door ... and Loisaida, Inc. SLCE Architects created the plans... We're not sure of the timetable for completion...

Previously on EV Grieve:
Community center and supportive housing coming to East Ninth Street

Friday, September 23, 2011

Community center and supportive housing project underway on East Ninth Street

Yesterday, workers began putting up the sidewalk shed at 710 E. Ninth St. between Avenue C and Avenue D... at the Henry Street Settlement Day Care #3 building...



We reported on this project in May 2010.

The project includes a community facility space on the ground floor and in the basement... the upper levels will house 46 units (28 studios and 12 one-bedroom apartments). The housing will serve homeless young adults and young adults aging out of the foster-care system. An additional 12 units will be set aside for young single adults with a child.

The project is a joint venture among Phipps Houses ... University Settlement/The Door ... and Loisaida, Inc. SLCE Architects created the plans...

And proof that not every single new development in the neighbor is for the wealthy...

Previously on EV Grieve:
Community center and supportive housing coming to East Ninth Street

[Photos by Bobby Williams]