Boston Post Road Owner, LLC, an affiliate of Rose Associates Capital Group and Bedrock Real Estate Partners LCC, wants to modify its approved site plan for redevelopment of the former United Hospital property in Port Chester. The developer is asking Port Chester’s Board of Trustees to approve additional apartments, additional parking spaces and a change in the mix of units proposed for the redevelopment.
According to Attorney Anthony B. Gioffre III of the White Plains-based law firm Cuddy & Feder, the developer wants the changes because of what has been happening in the current market, where there is a greater demand for smaller apartments rather than larger units. The developer proposes to reduce the number of two-bedroom apartments and increase the number of studio and one-bedroom units.
As previously approved, the redevelopment includes a mixed-use community comprised of an approximately 0.50-acre open green space surrounded by multi-family buildings with approximately 18,159 square feet of street-level commercial, retail and restaurant uses, a 120-room hotel, 200 age-restricted housing units for senior citizens consisting of 90 independent living apartments and 110 assisted living units, 775 multi-family residential units comprised of 144 studio units, 416 one-bedroom units, and 215 two-bedroom units. The approved project includes 1,038 parking spaces to handle residential and commercial parking requirements.
The developer now wants to add 182 apartments to the 775 that were approved in the multi-family residential component of the project bringing the total number of multi-family residential units to 957. There would be 358 studio apartments, 456 one-bedroom units, and 143 two-bedroom units. The total number of parking spaces proposed for the project is being increased from 1,038 to 1,262.
“The change of unit mix and the increase in parking spaces are all being accommodated without changes to the approved building footprints or massings,” Gioffre said. “The proposed amended site plan will not create any significant adverse environmental impacts not previously reviewed and mitigated.”
Gioffre noted that the revised unit mix, which reduces the number of two-bedroom apartments, would reduce the number of school-age children expected to be living at the development and attending Port Chester’s public schools from 113 to 15. He also said that the proposed water and sewer demands are expected to remain substantially similar to those that were previously approved.
The property is approximately 15.45-acres comprised of three parcels. United Hospital closed in 2005 after operating in the location since 1914. When United Hospital was operating at the site there was an approximately 380,000-square-feet hospital building, an approximately 25,500-square-feet office building known as Barron Hall, a central boiler plant and four ancillary buildings. A 12-story, 133-unit apartment building located at 999 High St. served as workforce housing for the hospital and was occupied until approximately 2017.
PC 406 BPR, LLC and PC 999 High Street Corp., affiliates of Starwood Capital Group, proposed redeveloping the site in 2014 and plans for the proposed project were approved by Port Chester in 2017. Boston Post Road Owner, LLC purchased the property from Starwood in 2019 and submitted its site plan application to Port Chester in 2021, which was approved in 2022.
