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Harlem Units Get $50M Green Makeover

NEW YORK CITY-The ten-building portfolio at West 135th St. is first in the nation to benefit from HUD’s Green Retrofit Program using federal stimulus funds.

By Jacqueline Hlavenka | Updated on September 14, 2011

NEW YORK CITY-A ten-building stretch on West 135th Street in the heart of Harlem has become the neighborhood’s “greenest” block. In collaboration with private and public investment groups, developer Jonathan Rose Cos., the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, Enterprise Community Partners and the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development have completed a $50.8-million tenant-in-place renovation of 198 units located from 107 to 145 W. 135th Street here.

The project is the first in the country to benefit from HUD’s Green Retrofit Program using federal stimulus funds, which Jonathan F.P. Rose, president of Jonathan Rose Cos., describes as “essential” due to the lack of funding available for new construction. “The solution is to have responsible owners purchase the existing stock as it comes up for sale, extend the period of committed affordability and make green capital and operating improvements,” Rose says in a statement after a ribbon-cutting ceremony on September 12. “Carrying out these goals on a large scale requires committed, innovative, responsive financiers.”

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