Red Brick Canal LLC and Armand P. Arman, the artist, have applied to the Board of Standards & Appeals for variance to permit the construction of an 11-story residential building at 482 Greenwich Street.
The site is an irregular lot on the northwest corner at Canal Street at the edge of the historic shoreline within a high hazard flood plane and on the former site of a gas station.
The developers want to demolish an existing garage and build 26 feet two inches above the street wall limit of 85 feet along Canal Street. The proposed building would have a floor-to-area ratio of 7.98 but the maximum permited in this district is 6.02. A recent rezoning of the Hudson Square district downzoned much of the district but this block was slightly "upzoned."
Community Board 2 last night passed a resolution that "strongly opposed" an increase in bulk over a FAR of 6.02, but agreed that the developers has "a valid hardship sufficient to justify an increase in lot coverage."
Thomas McKay is the architect for the project.
The site is an irregular lot on the northwest corner at Canal Street at the edge of the historic shoreline within a high hazard flood plane and on the former site of a gas station.
The developers want to demolish an existing garage and build 26 feet two inches above the street wall limit of 85 feet along Canal Street. The proposed building would have a floor-to-area ratio of 7.98 but the maximum permited in this district is 6.02. A recent rezoning of the Hudson Square district downzoned much of the district but this block was slightly "upzoned."
Community Board 2 last night passed a resolution that "strongly opposed" an increase in bulk over a FAR of 6.02, but agreed that the developers has "a valid hardship sufficient to justify an increase in lot coverage."
Thomas McKay is the architect for the project.
Architecture Critic
Carter Horsley
Since 1997, Carter B. Horsley has been the editorial director of CityRealty. He began his journalistic career at The New York Times in 1961 where he spent 26 years as a reporter specializing in real estate & architectural news. In 1987, he became the architecture critic and real estate editor of The New York Post.
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