Fight Against Rezoning
What Developers Want for Empire Blvd
What the Developers want for Empire Blvd. At this moment, Community Board 9 members, City Planning and Borough President Eric Adams are wanting the change from commercial to mix-residential and commercial on Empire Blvd., with the idea of wanting affordable housing. At the City Planning meetings, the suggestion was Read more…
Community Updates
Our Vision for Empire Boulevard
Our Vision For Empire Blvd. The Concept of Empire Boulevard: Let’s begin with the name “Empire Boulevard“. The word “empire” is derived from the Latin word imperium – meaning power and authority. In modern day usage, empires are typically formed from separate components – ethnic, cultural, religiously diverse sectors that Read more…
Community Updates
Transit Oriented Development, Why It Hurts
Definition One of the major avenues created to redesign neighborhoods all throughout America is based upon transit. In some communities these transit lines are created and in others they already exist. This has become known as Transit Oriented Development “TOD”. Definition of TOD, mixed -use, higher density development oriented towards Read more…