A property in Clinton Hill that has sat vacant for decades is the latest site Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration is targeting for housing.
The governor on Thursday announced a request for proposals for a mixed-use project to rise at 1024 Fulton St., part of her effort to boost the region’s housing supply by building more residential projects on state-owned land. All the apartments in the development should be affordable housing with rents suitable for households earning no more than 100% of the area median income, or about $155,000 for a family of four.
The project should include a senior or intergenerational community center on the ground floor as well.
The Brooklyn site spans about 12,800 square feet overall and is currently owned by the state’s Office of Children and Family Services, which acquired it from the city in 1997 with plans to build a community center. However, the center never came to fruition due to the site’s structural issues, and the building has now sat vacant for almost 30 years.
The property was home to a Brooklyn Union Gas showroom in the early 20th century and was used for various manufacturing and commercial purposes after that, according to the Hochul administration. The state allocated $3.7 million to demolish the roughly 33,000-square-foot building in its budget for the 2024-2025 fiscal year. There is currently no other public funding set aside for the project, but more could be added going forward.
Under current zoning rules, a project that includes qualifying affordable or senior housing can stand up to 11 stories or 115 feet tall.
Proposals for 1024 Fulton St. are due to Empire State Development on June 20 by 5 p.m.
This is just the latest of several sites where the state is looking to build housing. The Hochul administration is also seeking ideas for a residential project to rise at 621 W. 45th St. in Hell’s Kitchen, which is currently used as a parking lot, and officials announced in late 2024 that they had chosen a development team to build a roughly 1,400-unit residential project near the state-developed Jacob Javits Convention Center at 418 11th Ave.
