Arverne East – Building D
Queens County
Advancing Net-Zero Performance, Affordability, and Coastal Resilience in the Rockaways
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Arverne East - Building D
116 Beach 36th St, Queens, NY 11691
10 Stories
320 Affordable units
378,415 Total sq ft.
- New Construction
- Anticipated Completion: 2027
- Total project cost: $207,000,000
- Total project cost per sq ft: $547.02
- Award: $1,000,000
- Phius CORE Certification
- Enterprise Green Communities
- Disadvantaged Community Location
Project Description
Arverne East - Building D is a 320-unit mixed-use, affordable housing project totaling around 360,000 square that will be developed on an oceanfront site on the Rockaway peninsula in the Arverne neighborhood of Queens. Located within both a designated disadvantaged community and a federal Opportunity Zone, the 100% affordable project will provide housing to households earning up to 100% area median income. Residents of the 10-story building will have access to indoor and outdoor amenity spaces, including a fitness center, bike room, and ample landscaped areas.
Approximately 17,000 square feet of commercial space will be located on the first floor of the building. As the first residential phase of the Arverne East project, slated to be NYC’s first net-zero community, Building D will be Phius certified, leverage roof areas for the installation of extensive solar arrays, and include the construction of the initial phases of the project’s district geothermal loop, which will provide heating, cooling, and domestic hot water to all buildings within the Arverne East campus.
Project Status: Construction Documents
Market Sector: High-Rise Multifamily
Developed by: L+M Development Partners, LLC. (opens in new window)
Designed by: FXCollaborative Architects LLP (opens in new window)
Notable Technical Attributes
- High-performance envelope
- Triple-pane windows
- Heating/cooling/domestic hot water – ground source heat pumps (GSHP)
- Centralized energy recovery ventilation (ERV)
- Heat pump clothes dryers
- Onsite solar photovoltaic (PV) – solar PV capacity 480 kW
- Demand response management system
Resilience, Passive and Active Survivability
- During power outages building will have mechanical ventilation supplied to area(s) of refuge only
- Area of refuge for building staff, residents and surrounding community
- House pumps and power associated with two community rooms operational
- Storm water management
- Green roofs
Site Features
- At least 64 electric vehicle charging stations
- Interior bike storage for 163 bikes
- Within ¼ mile of a bus stop
- Within ½ mile of other mass transit
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