Developer presents revised 28‑story mixed‑use tower for 570 Main Street; public hearing set for next month

Crossroads Center LLC presented a revised plan to New Rochelle’s Planning Board on Jan. 27 for a 28‑story mixed‑use building at 570 Main Street that the applicant says would contain 504 residential units and about 4,575 square feet of retail space. The applicant requested a four‑story community benefit bonus and said the redesign reduces the previous unit count by 41 and cuts ground‑floor commercial area by about 60% to respond to neighbor concerns.

"We tried to listen, we heard the concerns, we've made these changes," said Mark Weingarten, attorney for the applicant, summarizing outreach meetings with the Howland School and the board of residents at 25 Le Roy. He said the building was pulled back 30 feet from the Le Roy lot line to create a publicly accessible open area between the properties.

Architect John Settra described the massing as a podium with a tower that steps back on Main and Center streets to break up bulk and to reflect nearby art‑deco materiality. Settra said the ground floor is configured to minimize conflicts between pedestrians and vehicles and that parking will be concealed behind articulated facades so it is not visible from the street.

Traffic engineer Nicholas Tortorella of Stonefield Engineering said the project’s vehicle access will be split between Le Roy Place and Center Avenue, and that the building will include three below‑grade parking levels: a B1 municipal self‑park level with 47 spaces open to the public and two lower resident levels containing 104 tenant self‑park spaces (access to the lower levels would be restricted). He said the podium includes 267 above‑grade valet spaces across four above‑grade podium levels, served by three vehicle lifts, and 14 ground‑floor valet handoff spaces for staging.

Tortorella said the team conducted weekday and Saturday counts in June 2025 with schools in session and compared the project to previously adopted DOZ‑2 environmental studies. He summarized a queuing and turnover analysis for valet operations that, with six attendants during peak periods, shows the probability of all 14 handoff spaces being occupied simultaneously is about 0.02 percent.

"Our current project is expected to generate a maximum of 5% of the total peak‑hour vehicle trips that were approved in those prior environmental studies," Tortorella said, noting the counts near the site were lower in 2025 than earlier baselines.

Board members pressed the applicant for local car‑share data, the principle behind parking reductions for valet operations, and how non‑resident visitors would find parking for retail and adjacent businesses; the applicant said municipal spaces on B1 would be available and that final operations (fees, signage, gating) would be subject to city approval. When asked about leasing and absorption, the applicant said rents will be market driven at the time of leasing and that the client expects demand to be sufficient over the multi‑year build and lease‑up horizon.

The project team reiterated outreach steps and design changes made in response to neighbor comments and said they will return next month for the public hearing and a vote. The board took no action tonight.

What’s next: The Planning Board will open public comment and vote on the application at its next meeting.