Haussmann Development is moving ahead with plans for a major residential project in Jamaica, Queens, taking over a stalled KD Sagamore Capital site and upping the unit count.
Josef Goodman’s firm, through a limited liability company, filed plans with the city Department of Buildings for a 14-story, 207,000-square-foot building at 159-31 90th Avenue, PincusCo reported. The GF55 Partners-designed project will hold between 205 and 259 apartments — the precise number varies across project filings — along with a church sanctuary seating 400, offices for the First Reformed Dutch Church of Jamaica and an on-site apartment for its pastor.
The site has a complicated recent history. In 2019, KD Sagamore signed a 99-year ground lease with the church valued at $8.8 million, following court approval. KD Sagamore then filed plans for a 136-unit building, but never broke ground.
While a lease transfer hasn’t been publicly recorded, Haussmann states in its filing that it controls the property through its LLC. The firm similarly took over KD Sagamore’s Arris Grand development in Clinton Hill a few months back; in March, Haussmann scored a $49.5 million loan to refinance the nine-story, mixed-use complex with 113 apartments, the Commercial Observer reported.
The latest filing for the 90th Avenue project calls for apartments on floors two through 14, as well as amenities like a lounge, recreation room and outdoor space on the second floor. The cellar will hold church meeting rooms, management offices, bike storage for 108 bicycles and building systems. No retail is planned for the 24,000-square-foot parcel.
On its website, the developer refers to the project as “The Tabernacle.” Though the address differs slightly from project filings, the development is billed as a 205-unit, 11-story, all-affordable housing project that will also include social services for residents.
Haussmann did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Real Deal.
Jamaica has been a prime Queens neighborhood for development, ranking fourth in the borough for major projects. In the past two years, it logged 1.9 million square feet of commercial and multifamily construction.
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