The entity K/BTF New City LLC is seeking approval from the Town of Clarkstown to redevelop its shopping center in New City at 66 N. Main St. The site consists of eight lots totaling just under 14 acres and the plan is to merge the lots.
Already on the site are a ShopRite supermarket and other retail plus medical office, restaurant, bank, and auto service uses. The parcel also includes single-family residences which are owned by the applicant. The applicant has already received approvals to redo the facade of the existing retail space.
The ShopRite underwent extensive modernization and held a grand reopening in February of last year. The store originally had opened at the site in 1980.
Colliers Engineering and Design based in Valhalla told Clarkstown’s Planning Board that in addition to modernizing the existing stores, the developer wants to construct a fast food restaurant with drive-thru, a separate retail building of about 4,000 square feet, and a five-story mixed-use building that would have 103 residential units along with about 8,733 square feet of retail space.
Previous concepts of the plan included a mixed-use building with seven stories and up to 140 apartments.
Colliers said that the shopping center currently contains 129,910 square feet of existing retail space. There are 554 existing parking spaces and 659 spaces would be required under zoning when the additional development takes place. The plan would provide 670 parking spaces, including 27 ADA compliant spaces. There would be 87 parking spaces beneath the proposed mixed-use building.
The retail space in the new building would be on the ground floor with the apartments in the four floors above. There would be 68 one-bedroom and 35 two-bedroom units.
Among the improvements proposed for the existing shopping center are new pavement, new lines and striping, new sidewalks, outdoor seating areas, and chargers for electric vehicles. Lighting and landscaping improvements also are proposed.
The main access to the site is proposed to be moved further north along Main Street to a new signalized driveway. A traffic study indicated that the proposed development would not expected to significantly affect service levels on the area roadways.
A stormwater management system has been designed that the developer believes will to provide the necessary water quantity controls required by the State Department of Environmental Conservation, as well as 10% reduction in peak runoff flow for severe storms when compared with current site conditions through the use of subsurface systems.
