City To Name Development Team for Markham Houses
June 29, 2006
Thursday, June 29, 2006
By KAREN O'SHEA
ADVANCE STAFF WRITER
The city is expected to name a development team today to rebuild the Markham Gardens Houses in West Brighton, with $60 million in new apartments and houses to be constructed over the next two years.
Neighborhood Housing Services of Staten Island, in conjunction with development partners Arker and Domain companies, has been selected to replace the aging and deteriorating frame buildings at Markham with 290 units of new housing, mostly rental units and 25 new homes
Demolition of the existing 360 buildings is expected to begin this winter and the new development could be complete by the end of 2008, city officials said yesterday.
The announcement will be made today at a press conference at the 63-year-old public housing complex on Richmond Terrace, which many of the residents have already left.
The New York City Housing Authority has promised former Markham residents the right to return to the new development.
Some of the apartments will be targeted to renters with a mix of incomes and offered through a lottery. Twenty-five two-family homes will be built and sold through a similar lottery to income-qualified buyers.
Markham Gardens was built in 1943 as temporary housing for World War II shipyard workers.
Housing Authority officials have said the structures were beyond repair and were plagued with sewage backups, termite infestation and buckling roofs.
June 29, 2006
Thursday, June 29, 2006
By KAREN O'SHEA
ADVANCE STAFF WRITER
The city is expected to name a development team today to rebuild the Markham Gardens Houses in West Brighton, with $60 million in new apartments and houses to be constructed over the next two years.
Neighborhood Housing Services of Staten Island, in conjunction with development partners Arker and Domain companies, has been selected to replace the aging and deteriorating frame buildings at Markham with 290 units of new housing, mostly rental units and 25 new homes
Demolition of the existing 360 buildings is expected to begin this winter and the new development could be complete by the end of 2008, city officials said yesterday.
The announcement will be made today at a press conference at the 63-year-old public housing complex on Richmond Terrace, which many of the residents have already left.
The New York City Housing Authority has promised former Markham residents the right to return to the new development.
Some of the apartments will be targeted to renters with a mix of incomes and offered through a lottery. Twenty-five two-family homes will be built and sold through a similar lottery to income-qualified buyers.
Markham Gardens was built in 1943 as temporary housing for World War II shipyard workers.
Housing Authority officials have said the structures were beyond repair and were plagued with sewage backups, termite infestation and buckling roofs.