Titan Real Estate Development LLC is seeking site plan approval from the Yonkers Planning Board to construct an apartment building on a 3.88-acre parcel composed of eight lots located at 36, 50 and 56 St. Joseph Ave., 1, 6, 7 and 10 Cavalli Circle and 55 Vineyard Ave. in the city’s Ashburton Avenue corridor.
The project is proposed to be built on land that had been part of the former Mulford Gardens public housing project and was to be developed as part of the 11.97-acre Mulford Gardens Hope VI Revitalization Project. The site in question is the remainder of the Hope VI property that the Municipal Housing Authority of the City of Yonkers (MHACY) transferred to the city in 2019. Titan has a letter of intent with the city to purchase the 3.88-acres of land in order to construct a Planned Urban Redevelopment (PUR) mixed-use project.
Titan is proposing to construct a building with 340 apartments, 420 parking spaces, and 20,000 square feet of commercial space. There would be 198 studios and 142 one-bedroom apartments.
On Sept. 3, the Yonkers City Council approved a special permit for Titan to construct a PUR on the site. Previously, the City Council approved discontinuing Cavalli Circle as a paper street, approved modification of the Ashburton Avenue Urban Renewal Plan and Ashburton Avenue Master Plan to permit construction of the project.
According to Attorney Janet Giris of the White Plains-based law firm DelBello Donnellan Weingarten Wise & Wiederkehr LLP, the new building would be six stories in height comprised of four residential stories over two stories of parking along with commercial space. The commercial space would be on the ground floor at the intersection of Loehr Place and St. Joseph Avenue. Giris points out that the site rises in elevation from the south to the north.
“A landscaped plaza for residents is proposed on the first floor rooftop over the parking level,” Giris said, noting that the project “includes a green roof which will capture and direct stormwater into an underground detention system.”
The plan calls for the lower level of the parking structure to be accessed from Loehr Place and to have approximately 180 spaces with 100 of those spaces reserved for residents and 80 to serve the commercial space.
The second level of the parking structure will contain approximately 240 parking spaces to serve residents of the building and will be accessed from St. Joseph Avenue. In addition, Titan proposes constructing 18 additional on-street public parking spaces on Loehr Place, which will be dedicated to the City.
