A 140-year-old church in downtown Yonkers could be taken down to make way for a 156-unit apartment complex.
Hudson Holdings NY LLC, a Kew Gardens-based developer, plans to construct a 15-story residential and commercial building on the property at 40-48 Hudson St. The complex would consist of two studio, 98 one-bedroom, 53 two-bedroom and three three-bedroom rental units.
The developer has proposed to build an 1,850-square-foot eating and drinking establishment on the ground floor of the complex.
The building will also include a number of amenities for the building”™s residents, according to Janet J. Giris, a partner at DelBello Donnellan Weingarten Wise & Wiederkehr, in a letter to the Yonkers Planning Board outlining the proposal.
Those would include a gym, conference room, resident lounge, library and party room. The roof of the building has been designed as a green roof, Giris said, and could be used as recreational space for residents.
The development plans call for 153 parking spaces in a garage with three below-ground levels and three above-grade levels that would contain 63 spaces.
The apartment building”™s facade will be a combination of glass and fiber cement cladding panels, giving the building “a bright, open appearance,” Giris said.
The transit-oriented development would be less than a quarter-mile from the Yonkers Metro-North train station.
A vacant church at 44 Hudson St. and adjacent three-story building, formerly the Christian Life Fellowship Center, would be razed for the redevelopment.
The gray stone edifice served as the St. John”™s German Evangelical Lutheran Church in the late 1800s and was later home to the Christian Life Fellowship Church before its sale in November 2016. Hudson Holdings bought the property for $4.7 million, according to Westchester County land records.
The roughly half-acre property at the corner of Hudson and Hawthorne streets lies within a downtown district rezoned for mixed uses and a high concentration of commercial, residential and institutional developments with ground-floor commercial uses to activate the street-level environment. The block is also home to the Greenway Shopping Center and the Yonkers Family YMCA.
The developer”™s plans were scheduled to be presented to the Yonkers Planning Board at its May 10 meeting.
