An applicant presented a rezoning request on July 16 for the former one-story shopping-center site at 1720 Atlantic Avenue to replace an M1-1 zone with C4-4D and R7A zoning and to map MIH Option 1. The team said the project would permit a 13-story mixed-use building with roughly 263,000''300,000 square feet in total, about 278 to 300 residential units with roughly 70 to 84 income-restricted units under MIH, about 50,000 square feet of commercial space and 17,000 square feet of community facility space.

The applicant said about half of the residential units would be two- and three-bedroom family units and the remainder studios and one-bedrooms, responding to community requests for family-sized housing. The team said long-standing commercial tenants at the existing strip mall, including a supermarket operator with an existing relationship with the owner, have first-rights discussions to return and that the development would offer more modern, active ground floor uses, wider sidewalks and internalized loading and parking.

The project team said the City of Yes zoning changes increased allowable FAR and unit counts; the applicant expects the site to follow CityIA financing tools such as 45x tax-exempt bond/abatement structures and that the development will require prevailing-wage and minimum-wage requirements for contractors and building-service workers because the project crosses unit thresholds that trigger those rules. The team said the proposal would also deliver a significant share of family-sized affordable units and provide loading and parking carefully placed inside the building.

No public testimony was offered at the borough president hearing for this item. The borough president will issue a recommendation to the City Planning Commission under ULURP. Written comments are accepted through July 18, 2025.