The redevelopment of the Greenpoint Hospital campus, in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, will include apartments for extremely low-income and very low-income residents and seniors, a new 200-bed homeless shelter, a community facility, and a network of new open spaces to connect the campus to the surrounding neighborhood. A partnership between St. Nick’s Alliance, Project Renewal, and Hudson Companies was designated by New York City to redevelop the site, which has been primarily vacant since 1982 when the Greenpoint Hospital was closed. The redevelopment project is the culmination of years of advocacy by a consortium of neighborhood-based organizations, including St. Nick’s Alliance, for affordable and senior housing in northern Brooklyn.

NYCEEC’s Green Predevelopment Loan supported the adaptive reuse of a former nurses’ residence into a 200-bed homeless shelter, into which an existing shelter will be relocated. Like the multifamily development next door, the shelter will significantly reduce carbon emissions by only using electricity for heating, cooling, hot-water production, and cooking. The shelter is expected to achieve LEED Gold certification.

The Green Predevelopment Loan will pay for energy modeling, feasibility analysis, design drawings, and land-use approvals. During the predevelopment phase, the NYCEEC will make disbursements as progress is made toward obtaining land use approvals, completing design milestones, and securing construction financing.