Kiss + Cathcart sees Common Ground’s Pitt Street Residence as an opportunity to build the first truly sustainable affordable housing project in New York City.
The 100,000sf Pitt Street Residence will house 264 residents on 12 stories with on-site social services, a gym, computer room, laundry, roof gardens, and multipurpose room opening out into a landscaped back garden. The entry courtyard will be a ‘community garden’, maintained by a group of neighbors and open to the public. The residents will be a mix of homeless adults with special needs (HIV/Aids/Mental illness), young adults aging out of foster care and at risk of homelessness, and working low income single adults from the community. There will be 9 floors of 220sf single efficiency units and 2 floors of shared suites. Common Ground has successfully completed several similar projects in New York City, and has always provided an attractive well-designed environment for its tenants. For this project they want to build an efficient, healthy and low-energy building utilizing renewable energy technologies. The estimated cost of the project is approximately $35 million. The project is supported by funds from NY State Homeless Housing and Assistance Corporation, and the NY City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, but will exceed their standards, setting new benchmarks for sustainable social housing in America.

Kiss+Cathcart, Architects
Common Ground Community
Goldman Copeland Associates
Rober Silman Associates
Donna Walcavage Landscape Architecture

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