Seven years after their penned retail rehab attempt, which the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) deemed “sad,” the team at Trans World Equities and Paul A. Castrucci Architect will be back before the commission tomorrow with a 9-story residential project with ground floor retail. The scheme will replace a shuttered stretch of storefronts at 312-322 Canal Street and rise within the Tribeca East Historic District, hence the necessary LPC approvals.
In February, we first showed you early renderings from Castrucci’s website which depicted a ruby-red brick façade with deeply-inset window profiles and a split level ninth floor. Now, it seems the new design has been refined with a setback on the ninth floor and more intricate brickwork —most notably the “dog’s tooth” brick accent panels along the Eastern side of the building.
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The building will present a 100-foot-wide elevelation along Canal Street
View south from Mercer Street; Detail of
Preliminary permits were filed back in March, detailing a 19-unit building, and 3 retail spaces on the ground floor. The 100-foot-long lot is fairly shallow so there will only be 3 residential units on the third floor, and the rest will be duplexes, spreads above (4 per floor).
Like several of Castrucci’s other projects, i.e. 951 Pacific Street and ABC No Rio, the new building will seek out Passive House certification. Their page on the Canal Street project says, ”High-efficiency heat pumps will condition the interior units on an individual basis while ERVs (energy recovery ventilators) will continuously supply the apartments with filtered and conditioned fresh air ensuring a comfortable and healthy interior environment. The prefabricated exterior brick panels will be backed with 4” layer of continuous rigid insulated in addition to a layer of mineral wool at the interior partitions yielding an R-value over 30 for the typical wall section.”
The LPC hearing is scheduled for 1:30 P.M. on Tuesday June 6, 2017.
The LPC hearing is scheduled for 1:30 P.M. on Tuesday June 6, 2017.
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