Hillside - North Building

Project Description

Hillside – North Building is a 170,037 square foot new construction project in Jamaica, Queens. Rising 14 stories this project will provide 173 affordable homes including set-aside units for formerly homeless individuals and approximately 12,000 square feet of community-serving retail. Designed to Passive House International certification standards it will feature a high-performance envelope, solar photovoltaic system, centralized energy recovery ventilation, black-water source heat pump and rooftop green space with rainwater harvesting. The project strengthens the Hillside Avenue corridor, a transit-oriented area with access to subway, bus, and rail lowering household costs while providing a new neighborhood anchor.

Project Status: Construction Documents

Market Sector: High-Rise Multifamily

Developed by: Mural Real Estate Partners

Designed by: Ettinger Engineering Associates

Notable Technical Attributes

• High performance envelope
  • Triple pane windows
• Heating/cooling– packaged terminal heat pumps (PTHP)
• Domestic hot water – black water source heat pump
• Centralized energy recovery ventilation (ERV)
• Minimum efficiency reporting value (MERV) 13 filtration
• Heat pump clothes dryer
• Real time energy monitoring system
• Onsite solar photovoltaic (PV) system

Resilience, Passive and Active Survivability

• Building is located outside of a current or expected floodplain or tidal inundation zone
• Mechanical ventilation supplied to areas of refuge only during power outages
• Critical loads maintained through use of backup power or use of energy storage in combination with renewable energy generation during a power outage include lighting and elevators
• Storm water managed through
  • Green roof(s)

Site Features

• Interior bike storage
• Within ¼ mile of a bus stop
• Within ½ mile of other mass transit