146th Street - Erbograph Apartments
New York, New York

Erbograph Apartments

Jonathan Rose Companies is serving as a co-developer of an affordable senior housing project in Central Harlem with Harlem Congregation for Community Improvement (HCCI).  The project contains 20,000 square feet of new office and community space and 53 units of affordable housing.  Built on city-owned property in Harlem’s Bradhurst neighborhood the building is designed to meet the community’s critical social and environmental needs. The building is designed to accommodate aging-in-place seniors and will be fully accessible for individuals with physical disabilities. Ground breaking for the project, currently in the pre-development stage, is expected in summer 2007. 

We are developing the project on behalf of HCCI, Inc., a non-profit interfaith consortium of more than 90 different congregations that will own and operate the building. Together, we are deeply committed to ensuring that the project’s design helps repair the physical, economic, cultural, and spiritual fabric of the neighborhood, which in the 1980s contained one of the largest concentrations of abandoned city-owned property in New York.  The affordable housing and community space are critical elements in the nearly 20-year old Bradhurst plan, a blueprint for revitalizing this 32-square-block area of north central Harlem.  Additionally, the new office space will strengthen HCCI organization infrastructure by providing a centralized office for HCCI operations.

In addition to meeting the needs identified in the Bradhurst plan, the project is a model for environmentally responsible affordable housing design. The project has received a commitment for a Green Communities Grant from Enterprise Community Partners to demonstrate the feasibility of green building techniques. The design includes features like high performance mechanical systems and equipment, non-toxic and recycled material, a green roof, permeable paving, natural day lighting, and other strategies demonstrate that green affordable housing is cost effective in dense urban neighborhoods. 

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Firm Role
Co-Developer

Project Type
Residential with office/community Space

Construction Type
New Construction

Owner
HCCI

Property Manager
Prestige Management

Development Team
Architect:  Victor Body Lawson Associates
General Contractor: The Bluestone Organization
Attorney: Lawyers Alliance of NY
Consultant: Urban Oasis Development LLC

Development Profile
53 Units
45 one-bedroom
6 two-bedroom
1 two-bedroom superintendent
20,000 Community and Office Space for HCCI
Parking & Number of Spaces
R7-2 Zoning with Quality Housing Standards
Central Air, fully handicap accessible, 9th floor recreation space including outdoor terrace

Development Plan
Urban Redevelopment

Development Budget
Sources:
LIHTC Equity - $10.3m
Commercial Loan - $3.4M
Housing Trust Fund - $2.2M
Deferred Fee - $0.3M
Total Sources: $16.2M
Uses:
Soft Costs - $1.6M
Hard Costs - $13.1M
Fee - $1.2M
Other - $0.3M
Total Project Costs: $16.2M

Primary Funders
New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal
Housing Trust Fund
Federal Tax Credits
Enterprise Community Investment for tax credit Equity
Enterprise Community Partners for Green Communities funding
JPMorganChase Community Lending

Project Status
Pre-development


Erbograph Apartments