Old industrial buildings in Long Island City are often converted into residential exclusive projects as the housing boom continues in the burgeoning neighborhood.
But due to an old mixed-use industrial zoning, a new residential building that will replace an old warehouse on Crescent Street was designed with a manufacturing space.
Architects for 37-10 Crescent St. recently revealed the new building’s renderings. The first floor of the building will be reserved for manufacturing, which will be used by a contractor, New York YIMBY reported. Ranger Properties, which purchased the 18,000-square-foot one-story building for $6.5 million last year, is developing it.
The project will be a six-story building with 55 residential units in the remaining five floors. It is set to open in 2016. There will also be parking spaces in the basement level, which are mandated by the old zoning code.
The façade of the building is “clad in a lightweight cement board rain screen,” according to the architect.
Demolition permits were filed last month for the one-story warehouse currently at the site.
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