Ribbon-cutting at Wyandanch reasonably priced senior housing complicated

State, county and native officers joined builders and neighborhood leaders Thursday for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at an reasonably priced senior housing complicated in Wyandanch. 

11-Park Drive Wyandanch / Picture by David Winzelberg

The constructing at 11 Park Drive is the fourth constructing within the Wyandanch Village growth, bringing 94 rental flats for folks aged 62 and over. 

The $40 million venture was developed by a partnership of Backyard Metropolis-based Albanese Group and the nonprofit Selfhelp Realty Group, an affiliate of Manhattan-based Selfhelp Neighborhood Providers. 

Leasing for the brand new growth started this spring and the constructing is now 90 % occupied with residents who earn between 30 % and 70 % of the world median earnings.

“We’re proud to have a good time the opening of our fourth constructing in Wyandanch in an excellent public/personal partnership with New York State and the nonprofit Selfhelp,” stated Russell Albanese, chairman of The Albanese Group. 

The constructing was designed by Salvatore Coco of Melville-based BHC Architects and the engineering for the event was supplied by Woodbury-based Cameron Engineering. 

The brand new constructing is a part of the Wyandanch Rising initiative that started 20 years in the past. 

“It’s an awesome venture,” stated John Cameron, founder and managing accomplice of Cameron Engineering. “The Albanese Group have set themselves aside by seeing this right through.” 

Babylon Supervisor Richard Schaffer stated the brand new constructing is the “subsequent piece” of what the neighborhood got down to do in 2001. 

“They came upon what they needed in a imaginative and prescient plan which is now 20 years previous,” Schaffer stated. “It’s stunning to see the faces of the seniors who’re right here.” 

Facilities on the new transit-oriented growth, positioned simply steps away from the Wyandanch Lengthy Island Rail Highway station, embrace a health heart, lounge, courtyard and a neighborhood backyard. 

And there’s extra to return. Albanese stated the corporate is hoping to interrupt floor earlier than the top of the yr on the fifth constructing at Wyandanch Village, a 213-unit, non-age-restricted reasonably priced residence complicated on the nook of Straight Path and Lengthy Island Avenue.