After nearly three years of debate and delay, a Comfort Inn is slowly rising on Webster Avenue. But the project is once again on hold because of a partial stop-work order due to unapproved steel work and a fight with neighbors over property boundaries.
A year after their project met stiff community opposition, a developer's team returned to Community Board 7 last week to re-pitch their plan to build a small hotel on Webster Avenue in Norwood. This time, residents and board members seemed more receptive to McSam Hotel Group's plan for a five-story, 42-room Comfort Inn, but many, including CB7 Chair Greg Faulkner, remain unconvinced.
The Webster Avenue corridor where the Doe Fund wants to build is currently zoned for heavy commercial use and is made up of mostly auto shops, gas stations and other industrial businesses.
A developer is considering building a hotel on Webster Avenue near PS/MS 20, though not in the location previously reported in the Norwood News.
The architectural firm behind the New York Botanical Garden’s (NYBG) first-ever residential development released a rendering of the impending property that will contribute to an evolving Webster Avenue corridor. Stephen B. Jacobs Group, the architectural firm, sent the Norwood News the rendering showing a 12-story modern-looking building that’s expected to be a senior residence. While […]
The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) is slated to construct two residential buildings totaling more than 400 units along a property it owns Webster Avenue in Bedford Park, advancing an interest in development that harkens back to nearly a decade when community advocates joined city leaders in rezoning Webster Avenue to welcome such development projects. […]
The possibility of a shelter has drawn ire from community stakeholders who prefer a shelter anywhere except a carpet store on Webster Avenue.
BP Reflects on Development, Drawing Professional Workers, and Mayoral Ambivalence His innuendos were obvious, if not passive aggressive. But there he stood, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. spending 45 minutes in his seventh State of the Borough address chastising the de Blasio Administration for a number of perceived missteps. For political observers, it was […]
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