Acacia Network plans 18K sf social service building

Jesus Pedrosa, senior vice president of facilities management of the nonprofit Acacia Network, submitted a new building construction project for a 17,582 square-foot community facility (I-1) building at 118-36 Merrick Boulevard in St. Albans, Queens. The plan was filed on October 4, 2022. It calls for the construction of a 35-foot-tall, two-story building and was filed with the New York City Department of Buildings under job number Q08002811. The architect is H2m Architects + Engineers. The project is described in the filing as: it is proposed to erect a new two-story community facility building as shown on plans.

The property

The 118-36 Merrick Boulevard parcel has frontage of 90 feet and is 100 feet deep with a total lot size of 9,000 square feet. The zoning is R5B which allows for up to 1.35 times floor area ratio (FAR) for residential. The city-designated market value for the property in 2022 is $681,000.

Violations and lawsuits

According to city public data, the property has not received any significant violations in the last year.

There were no lawsuits or bankruptcies filed against the property since September of 2020.

The neighborhood

In St. Albans, the bulk, or 34 percent of the 5.2 million square feet of commercial built space are specialty buildings, with mixed-use buildings next occupying 18 percent of the space. In sales, St. Albans has near average sales volume among other neighborhoods with $41.9 million in sales volume in the last two years and is the 32nd highest in Queens. For development, St. Albans has near average amount of major developments among other neighborhoods and is the 27th highest in Queens. It had 133,545 square feet of commercial and multi-family construction under development in the last two years, which represents 3 percent of the neighborhood’s built space.

The block

On the tax block, there were two new building construction projects totaling 27,178 square feet. The largest is a 17,582 square-foot I-1 building developed by Jesus Pedrosa with plans filed October 4, 2022 and it has not been permitted yet. The second largest is a 74-unit, 9,596 square-foot I-1 building developed by Adam Bayroff with plans filed September 14, 2016 and it has not been permitted yet.

The surrounding

This is the first commercial real estate event of interest identified within the 400-foot radius of 118-36 Merrick Boulevard in the past 24 months.

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