$34M Affordable Housing Development Breaks Ground In Crown Heights

CROWN HEIGHTS, NY — Construction started this week on a $34 million development including affordable and supportive housing and an attached health care facility, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Thursday.

The project, called Park Place, will include 43 apartments for residents making between 30 and 80 percent of the area median income. It sits on Park Place between Classon and Franklin avenues.

Eight of the apartments will be set aside for locals experiencing homelessness with on-site supportive services, Hochul announced.

On the ground floor of the development will sit an 8,000-square-foot health cafe facility operated by One Brooklyn Health offering primary care for kids and adults and dental care.

"How can we create housing that not only provides a home, but builds community resiliency, creates livable outdoor green spaces, builds on our city’s environmental commitment, and brings affordable health care to the neighborhood? Park Place begins to do this," said Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso in a statement.

The property will have a number of amenities including free wifi, community rooms, bike storage and an outdoor terrace.

In June, city officials announced an affordable development slated for Crown Heights in the Kingsborough houses development between Buffalo and Rochester avenues.

The development would include 200 "deeply affordable" homes specifically designated for older and formerly unhoused Brooklynites.