PUBLIC NOTICE
CITY OF NEW YORK
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING PRESERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Pursuant to Section 695(2)(b) of the General Municipal Law and Section 1802(6)(j) of the Charter, notice is hereby given that the Department of Housing Preservation and Development ("HPD") of the City of New York ("City") has proposed the sale of the following City-owned property (collectively, "Disposition Area") in the Borough of Bronx:
Address Block/Lot(s)
425 Grand Concourse 2346/1
Under HPD's Mixed Income Program: Mix and Match, sponsors purchase City-owned or privately owned land or vacant buildings and construct multifamily buildings in order to create affordable rental housing units with a range of affordability in which at least half of the units are affordable to low income households earning up to 60 percent of the Area Median Income (“AMI”) and the remaining units are affordable to other low income households. Construction and permanent financing is provided through loans from private institutional lenders and from public sources including HPD, the New York City Housing Development Corporation, the State of New York, and the federal government. Additional funding may also be provided from the syndication of low-income housing tax credits.
Under the proposed project, the City will sell the Disposition Area to PH425 Housing Development Fund Corporation (“Sponsor”) for the nominal price of one dollar per tax lot, and the Sponsor will convey beneficial ownership of the Disposition Area to Trinity Mid Bronx Residential Limited Partnership (“Partnership” and collectively with Sponsor, “Owner”). The Partnership will deliver an enforcement note and the Owner will deliver an enforcement mortgage for the remainder of the appraised value. The Owner will then construct one building containing a total of approximately 276 rental dwelling units, plus one unit for a superintendent, and approximately 12,103 square feet of commercial space and approximately 41,625 square feet of community facility space on the Disposition Area.
The Land Debt will be repayable out of resale or refinancing profits for a period of at least thirty (30) years following completion of construction. The remaining balance, if any, may be forgiven at the end of the term.
The appraisal and the proposed Land Disposition Agreement and Project Summary are available for public examination at the office of HPD, 100 Gold Street, Room 5-I, New York, New York on business days during business hours.
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a public hearing will be held on April 25, 2018 at 1 Centre Street, Manhattan, Mezzanine at 10:00 a.m., or as soon thereafter as the matter may be reached on the calendar, at which time and place those wishing to be heard will be given an opportunity to be heard concerning the proposed sale of the Disposition Area pursuant to Section 695(2)(b) of the General Municipal Law and Section 1802(6)(j) of the Charter.
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