86 Elizabeth St is an adaptive reuse design development project in Chinatown, NYC. Chinatown is one of the last working class neighborhoods in Manhattan, the community faces the threat of a new jail, gentrification, anti-asian hate crimes, and an aging population. As such, our mission is to provide elderly friendly affordable housing in Chinatown, Manhattan. In order to keep the project viable, we project renting 50% of the units as affordable (60% AMI) and 50% at market rate. 86 Elizabeth St aims at continuously keeping units within the affordable range for the community. Specifically, AAFE (Asian American for Equity) is our target group so eventual building ownership also remains within the Asian community.
As is, the building is a single owner multi-family home, 5-story historic building built in 1900. It comprises of 8 residential units total with commercial programme on the 1st floor. A alcohol shop was previously listed as the retail business but has now closed. Our proposal is an adaptive reuse type with a new interior layout, inner courtyard, balcony extensions, elevator addition, lobby doorman, one additional floor, and rooftop community garden to make a total of 16 residential units; commercial programming remains on the 1st floor.
In collaboration with Pimpakarn Rattanathumawat & Ziyuan Wu.
As is, the building is a single owner multi-family home, 5-story historic building built in 1900. It comprises of 8 residential units total with commercial programme on the 1st floor. A alcohol shop was previously listed as the retail business but has now closed. Our proposal is an adaptive reuse type with a new interior layout, inner courtyard, balcony extensions, elevator addition, lobby doorman, one additional floor, and rooftop community garden to make a total of 16 residential units; commercial programming remains on the 1st floor.
In collaboration with Pimpakarn Rattanathumawat & Ziyuan Wu.
