{"id":1004517055,"date":"2021-03-19T02:06:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T10:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/internal.cpexecutive.com\/?p=1004517055"},"modified":"2021-05-21T00:56:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T08:56:39","slug":"national-urban-leagues-242m-harlem-hq-breaks-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/national-urban-leagues-242m-harlem-hq-breaks-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"National Urban League\u2019s $242M Harlem HQ Breaks Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1004536634\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004536634\" data-attachment-id=\"1004536634\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/national-urban-leagues-242m-harlem-hq-breaks-ground\/screenshot_1-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/03\/Screenshot_1-1-e1621587210556.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"805,600\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"National Urban League Headquarters\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;National Urban League Headquarters&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/03\/Screenshot_1-1-e1621587210556.jpg?w=805\" class=\"wp-image-1004536634 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/03\/Screenshot_1-1-e1621587210556.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/03\/Screenshot_1-1-e1621587210556.jpg 805w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/03\/Screenshot_1-1-e1621587210556.jpg?resize=300,224 300w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/03\/Screenshot_1-1-e1621587210556.jpg?resize=768,572 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004536634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">National Urban League Headquarters. Rendering courtesy of National Urban League<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last summer, National Urban League announced plans to redevelop an underused site in Upper Manhattan\u2019s Harlem neighborhood into the historic civil rights organization\u2019s national headquarters, along with other office, affordable housing and retail components. This week, the $242 million mixed-use Urban League Empowerment Center officially broke ground at 121 W. 125th St.<\/p>\n<p>The development will replace a four-story parking structure near the corner of Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and Lenox Avenue. In addition to NUL\u2019s 42,000-square-foot headquarters, the 17-story property will include the nearly 21,500-square-foot Urban Civil Rights Museum Experience\u2014New York\u2019s first civil rights museum\u2014and the 19,500-square-foot National Urban League Institute for Race, Equity and Justice. Plans also call for an additional 73,000 square feet of office space reserved for community groups, 105,000 square feet of retail space and more than 170 affordable housing units, catering to residents earning between 30 and 80 percent of the Area Median Income. Furthermore, the center will include supportive housing for young adults aging out of foster care.<\/p>\n<h2>Developing the Urban League Empowerment Center<\/h2>\n<p>The development team, a joint venture between BRP Cos., L+M Development Partners, Taconic Investment Partners, The Prusik Group and Dabar Development Partners, plans to deliver the 414,000-square-foot building in late 2023.\u00a0Beyer Blinder Belle is the architect for the project. The design firm is also involved in\u00a0RXR Realty and TF Cornerstone\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/fresh-look-at-grand-hyatt-new-york-redevelopment\/\">iconic Grand Hyatt New York\u00a0redevelopment<\/a>\u00a0adjacent to Grand Central Terminal, acting as\u00a0architectural and historical consultant alongside the main architect, Skidmore, Owings &amp; Merrill.<\/p>\n<p>Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group is financing the project with a $188 million loan. Other backers of the development include a number of private sources, such as Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corp., Red Stone Equity Partners and Santander Bank.<\/p>\n<h2>Back to Harlem roots<\/h2>\n<p>NUL, an organization that advocates on behalf of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/keeping-the-momentum-furthering-diversity-in-cre\/\">economic and social justice for African Americans<\/a>\u00a0and against racial discrimination, was founded in 1910 in Harlem, a neighborhood that will once again house the organization. The agency will relocate from its current headquarters at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/jll-to-lease-office-tower-near-wall-street\/\">Rudin Management\u2019s 80 Pine Street<\/a>\u00a0in Lower Manhattan\u2019s Financial District, where it leases roughly 57,000 square feet on the 38-story skyscraper\u2019s ninth floor, according to CommercialEdge data. The organization has 90 local affiliates across the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The roster of groups that will reside at the Urban League Empowerment Center\u2019s below-market office space includes One Hundred Black Men of New York, the United Negro College Fund New York and Harlem-based Jazzmobile.\u00a0In January, Trader Joe\u2019s revealed plans for a new 28,000-square-foot grocery store at the location, as reported by <em>New York YIMBY<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mixed-use project incorporates office, affordable housing and retail space, as well as New York&#8217;s first civil rights museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":739,"featured_media":1004528858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21782,21752,1600,21742,10],"tags":[37987,51062,33435,33625,51063,32873],"class_list":["post-1004517055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-development","category-mixed-use","category-new-york","category-latest","category-northeast","tag-beyer-blinder-belle","tag-brp-companies","tag-goldman-sachs","tag-lm-development-partners","tag-red-stone-companies","tag-taconic-investment-partners"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - 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