An 8-story supportive housing building could rise on the site of what’s now being used as a parking lot for an adjacent retirement home in Gowanus, records show.
The development arm of Downtown Brooklyn-based organization Catholic Charities Brooklyn & Queens has submitted plans to the Department of Buildings to erect a roughly 96,780-square-foot low-income apartment building with 121 dwelling units at 366 Bond St., according to the recent filing. Records show Jennifer Swift, director at Catholic Charities Progress of Peoples Development Corp., submitted the permits, which were initially rejected by the agency because of missing documents but will likely be approved upon resubmission. Swift did not return a request for comment by press time.
The proposed building, which would include a 25,586-square-foot community facility on the ground floor, offering amenities such as outdoor and office space, and television, gaming and computer rooms, would rise between Carroll and First streets on what appears to be the roughly 42,000-square-foot parking lot of Mary Star of the Sea, a 101-room senior living home at 41 First St. that’s owned and operated by the same nonprofit organization, records show. The retirement home is unlikely to be affected by the construction.
Local design firm Shakespeare Gordon Studio, which is based in the same south Brooklyn neighborhood along the fetid Gowanus Canal, is listed as the architect of record, according to the application. The below-market-rate apartment building, if approved by the city, would be just about 500 feet from the area’s contaminated waterway, which is in the midst of an extensive, more than $1 billion cleanup led by the federal Environmental Protection Agency with the help of the city.
The site, however, sits just outside the special Gowanus mixed-use district, which was rezoned in 2021 with the goal of bringing more than 8,000 new apartments online to the otherwise industrial area surrounding the canal.
