Capsys Corp is currently finishing up the first grouping of
homes for the next phase of Nehemiah’s Spring Creek project located on a former
45 acre former landfill site east of
Built in partnership with East Brooklyn Congregations and
designed by architect Alexander Gorlin, Nehemiah is composed of prefabricated
one-, two- and three-family homes assembled at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Homeowners put down as little as $8,000 to purchase their houses, which ranged
in price from $158,000 to $488,000.
When completed by 2016, over 1,525 new homes and apartments
will be built on these streets tucked in behind Related Companies Gateway Plaza
Mall,
and two state parks opening by 2014. In September, three new schools will open
on a $75 million campus constructed by the Department of Education.
Spring Creek Nehemiah (as residents call it) will be home to
233 first-time homeowners who won the right to live at Nehemiah in a lottery
sponsored by the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development, a
major partner in the project. They applied to the lottery more than five years
ago, some as many as 17 years back. Soon, 50 new owners will move in. Five
parks, a supermarket and
finished upon plan completion.
These prefabricated townhouses are part of the Nehemiah
program to build the largest affordable housing development for first-time
homebuyers in
More than 800 homes are planned around a vibrant community-oriented
streetscape and neighborhood.
The first two phases and phase 3B, approximately
287 of 578 townhouses, are now complete with phase 3A under construction.
Individual modular units are constructed in a nearby factory and trucked to the
site where they are then joined together into two-, three- and four-story
houses. To create visual interest and distinct identities, multiple
facade types were designed, each of which can be clad in one of a dozen
different colors of siding. A modern interpretation of traditional
raised front door. Parking is along rear alleys in the interior of each block,
allowing the homes to open directly onto the sidewalk.
