HPD, L+M Development Partners, Bluestone Organization, and Triangle Equities Close on First Phase of New York City’s First Net Zero Community

L+M Development Partners, the Bluestone Organization and Triangle Equities have closed on $30.3 million in financing for the first phase of Arverne East, an ambitious, socially and economically transformative project that will revitalize a vacant 116-acre oceanfront site in the Arverne and Edgemere neighborhoods in Queens’ Rockaway Peninsula and set a new standard for resilient and energy efficient development in coastal areas.

Read a detailed description of our project here.

Real Estate Weekly, 6sqft and Archinect report on Arverne East, an upcoming project that will revitalize a vacant 116-acre oceanfront site in the Arverne and Edgemere neighborhoods in Queens’ Rockaway Peninsula. Upon completion, Arverne East will be one of the most sustainable developments in the country and NYC’s first net-zero community. Starr Whitehouse is leading landscape design of the project’s first phase, a 35-acre nature preserve between Beach 44th Street and Beach 56th Place designed to restore and promote native ecology.

Patch highlights the Manhattan Greenway Harlem River’s future pedestrian ramp to the RFK Bridge, which will enable New Yorkers to travel directly between the East Harlem waterfront and the many recreational opportunities of Randalls and Wards islands.

“A truly inclusive public process is premised on bringing together multiple constituencies who don’t necessarily agree on everything, and working to unite them around a common, tangible goal and shared vision.” Architizer’s Hannah Feniak uses Marsha P Johnson State Park as a case study to argue that inclusive, stakeholder-driven design makes for a smoother, more efficient design process that generates public support and saves the client team costly resources.

Madame Architect’s Julia Gamolina interviews the female-led team behind Ray and the National Black Theatre’s new residential and cultural complex on 5th Avenue and 125th Street.

TimeOut New York features renderings of the redesigned Marsha P Johnson State Park.

The Brooklyn Paper shares renderings and community feedback for the redesigned Marsha P Johnson State Park!

Starr Whitehouse’s 2021 Spring Newsletter introduces our new office in Hudson, NY! As work-from-home and telecommuting decentralize the workplace, the Hudson studio is helping communities prepare for an economy that is simultaneously more local and connected—expanding infrastructure, restoring historic centers, improving access and public safety, and curating the public realm.

Construction has begun on upgrades to the City of Hudson’s historic Promenade Hill Park! Led by Principal and Director of Starr Whitehouse’s Hudson office Gail Wittwer-Laird, this DRI-funded project will make Hudson’s iconic promenade universally accessible, while carving out a new plaza and programming in the lower section of the park.

Global Design News, a new publication of the Chicago Atheneum, profiles Jones Beach Energy and Nature Center, Starr Whitehouse and nARCHITECTS’s “laboratory for understanding the power of nature.”