L+M Development Partners filed plans this week to build affordable housing on a Bronx site owned by New York City Health + Hospitals, furthering city efforts to develop public hospital land to address its dire housing shortage.
The project at 1225 Gerard Ave. is currently a parking lot for H+H’s Gotham Health clinic in Morrisania. It is set to become a 17-story mixed-use building that includes a health care facility and 328 units. It will span 357,000 square feet, according to city filings.
The building will include affordable and supportive apartments, offering New Yorkers with housing and health challenges access to case management and social services. All of the apartments will be available to New Yorkers with incomes below 80% of the area median income, or roughly $124,000 for a household of four. But the majority will be open to those with incomes below 60% of the area median income, said Leora Jontef, assistant vice president for housing and real estate at H+H.
Development plans also include a 40,000-square-foot health facility and community spaces where nonprofits BronxWorks and the African Resource Center will operate social services.
The new development is the first housing project operated by H+H that has a health care facility embedded within a residential building, Jontef said, providing access to primary care appointments, women’s health and dentistry directly downstairs from where people live. “This is the first project that is truly health and housing,” she said.
H+H has several housing developments in the works, including one on the campus of Woodhull Hospital that is set to open this fall. The health system is in the process of developing 11 residential buildings.
L+M is one of a few developers spearheading the project at 1225 Gerard Ave., selected by the city alongside BronxWorks and real estate consultant Type A Projects in 2021. The Department for Housing Preservation and Development chose the developers to lead the project following the rezoning of Jerome Avenue, an effort that resulted in plans to build more than 4,000 new affordable apartments in the southwest Bronx.
Although L+M filed construction plans, Type A and BronxWorks will be the long-term owners of the project, said John DeSio, a spokesman for L+M. Developers are planning to start construction of the building in 2025.
Amanda D'Ambrosio , 2024-05-23 11:33:03
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