A pilot project spearheaded by the Bloomberg administration to develop a new housing model for the City’s "growing small-household population," has attracted a big response from interested housing developers.
Dubbed adAPT NYC, a call for proposals to develop a "micro-apartment" test project on a city-owned site in Manhattan attracted applications from 33 interested developers, "from major luxury housing builders to those known for creating smaller, innovative projects," reports Laura Kusisto. She noted that, "city officials said they received roughly three times as many
applications as they usually do for a project of this size."
"The City's adAPT NYC competition has ignited a global interest and
conversation about how high-density urban centers can right-size their
housing stock to fit changing demographics," said Mathew Wambua,
commissioner of the housing preservation department.
According to Kusisto, "[s]ome developers said even if they don't win, they can apply some of
the ideas they formulated during the application process to other
projects. 'It's not just about this project....Irrespective of what
happens with this site, we can utilize it in other places,' [Matthew] Blesso
[of developer Blesso Propoerties] said."
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