Development Team Breaks Ground on Final Stage of Bronx’s La Central Project

Development Team Breaks Ground on Final Stage of Bronx’s La Central Project

New York City Mayor Eric Adams, BRP Companies, Hudson Companies, J.P. Morgan and project partners recently broke ground on Phase II of the La Central housing development to bring 420 new affordable homes to the Melrose neighborhood of the Bronx. Phase II will encompass a range of unit types from studios to four-bedroom apartments, along with 63 supportive housing units. The new phase is expected to cost $343 million, with the Adams administratio…

Final phase of affordable La Central complex breaks ground in the South Bronx phase of La Central complex breaks ground in the South Bronx

Work began last week on the second, and final, phase of La Central, a five-building affordable housing development in the South Bronx. The $343 million second phase includes two mixed-use buildings with 420 affordable apartments, with more than 60 units set aside for formerly homeless New Yorkers. The development, near Third Avenue and 149th Street in Melrose, a shopping district known as the Hub, has been in the works for years, with a request …