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Bronx Juvenile Center Will Become MXU
Although the City Council’s approval of the Jerome Avenue rezoning may have gotten more attention, city lawmakers also signed off on another redevelopment project in the Bronx. The former Spofford Juvenile Detention Center in Hunts Point, which closed in 2011, will become a mixed-use project with 740 affordable housing units, commercial space, light industrial space and community facility space.
Gilbane Development Company, the Hudson Companies, and the Mutual Housing Association of New York introduced a proposal in 2016 to redevelop the Spofford facility as The Peninsula. The Council’s final approval of the plan put forth by the developers and the New York City Economic Development Corporation represented “a big day for justice in the Bronx,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said last week.
The project’s current timeline calls for completion in three phases, with the third phase slated to wrap up in 2024.
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