A mixed-use, 12-story building is under construction at 101 Avenue D in the East Village by The Dermot Company that will contain new facilities for The Lower Eastside Girls Club Center for Community in its base and 78 mixed-income rental apartments above.
The club has said it expects "to open the doors to the new 30,000-square-foot Girls Club in early 2012" and that the "green" building will enable it to triple its program capacity to over 1000 girls per week.
It said that it is expanding its "successful entrepreneurial social venture businesses, The Sweet Things Baking Company and Community Cafe, with the construction of a Culinary Education Center and commercial kitchen," adding that "these programs offer job training and opportunities for teenage girls and neighborhood women."
The club's new kitchen will also serve as a classroom for nutrition education and meet in-house food service needs and it said that "a courtyard filled with flowers, an outdoor fountain designed by artist Kiki Smith, and cafe tables will provide a unique oasis for dining and quiet events."
In its Fair Trade Gift Shop and Book Store, items from cooperatives around the world will share shelf space with girl-made crafts and artwork.
"Our public market space will be a home for our Farmers Market Center, simultaneously supporting New York State farmers and our community's health. Our Technology Core/ IT Center is the epicenter of all technology-related programs and equipment. The tech core will be fully accessible to LESGC members and their families and will be home to a domed planetarium, computer stations with free wireless Internet access, digital photography, filmmaking and editing equipment, digital sound and music stations," according to a recent announcement by the club.
The Library & Academic Support Center is the site for after-school tutoring, book clubs and quiet activities and the Health and Wellness Center, a multipurpose facility for healthcare and physical activities, will include dance, yoga, drumming, fencing, meditation and stress reduction programs, sports activities and more.
The facility will also have art studios and a working printing press and a science and environmental education center and facilities for digital journalism.
The mid-block building has been designed by Cutsogeorge Tooman & Allen Architects, which recently has been involved in the facade preservation at 210 Riverside Drive and 900 Fifth Avenue and 45 Tudor City Place and the facade replacement at Westminster House at 35 East 85th Street and at 400 East 85th Street.
The club has said it expects "to open the doors to the new 30,000-square-foot Girls Club in early 2012" and that the "green" building will enable it to triple its program capacity to over 1000 girls per week.
It said that it is expanding its "successful entrepreneurial social venture businesses, The Sweet Things Baking Company and Community Cafe, with the construction of a Culinary Education Center and commercial kitchen," adding that "these programs offer job training and opportunities for teenage girls and neighborhood women."
The club's new kitchen will also serve as a classroom for nutrition education and meet in-house food service needs and it said that "a courtyard filled with flowers, an outdoor fountain designed by artist Kiki Smith, and cafe tables will provide a unique oasis for dining and quiet events."
In its Fair Trade Gift Shop and Book Store, items from cooperatives around the world will share shelf space with girl-made crafts and artwork.
"Our public market space will be a home for our Farmers Market Center, simultaneously supporting New York State farmers and our community's health. Our Technology Core/ IT Center is the epicenter of all technology-related programs and equipment. The tech core will be fully accessible to LESGC members and their families and will be home to a domed planetarium, computer stations with free wireless Internet access, digital photography, filmmaking and editing equipment, digital sound and music stations," according to a recent announcement by the club.
The Library & Academic Support Center is the site for after-school tutoring, book clubs and quiet activities and the Health and Wellness Center, a multipurpose facility for healthcare and physical activities, will include dance, yoga, drumming, fencing, meditation and stress reduction programs, sports activities and more.
The facility will also have art studios and a working printing press and a science and environmental education center and facilities for digital journalism.
The mid-block building has been designed by Cutsogeorge Tooman & Allen Architects, which recently has been involved in the facade preservation at 210 Riverside Drive and 900 Fifth Avenue and 45 Tudor City Place and the facade replacement at Westminster House at 35 East 85th Street and at 400 East 85th Street.
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Carter Horsley
Since 1997, Carter B. Horsley has been the editorial director of CityRealty. He began his journalistic career at The New York Times in 1961 where he spent 26 years as a reporter specializing in real estate & architectural news. In 1987, he became the architecture critic and real estate editor of The New York Post.
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