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Client: BRP Companies
Services Performed: Architecture & Planning
Location: Harlem | St. Nicholas Avenue, New York, NY
Scale & Scope: 7 Story- 39 residential units, recreational area, and Dance studio – New Construction
Project Parameters
- Schematic Design
- Design Development
- Construction Documents
- Construction Administrative Services
- Landmark Approval
- MTA Approval
- Prepare Construction Documentation for negotiated bid
- Construction Administrative Services
The Dance Theater of Harlem represents a collaboration between non-profit cultural organizations and the vast need for affordable housing in NYC
Located in the historic Sugar Hill/Hamilton Heights District, the Dance Theater of Harlem represents a collaboration between non-profit cultural organizations and NYC’s vast need for affordable housing. Built on a long-standing vacant lot originally slated for Non-Profit Cultural Organizations, the DTH offers 39 “100 percent affordable housing units in a neighborhood where market-rate apartments are becoming widespread while retaining the ground floor for use by the dance theater.
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![Dance Theater of Harlem_02_Int_Lobby](https://www.thinkslm.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Dance-Theater-of-Harlem_02_Int_Lobby.jpg)
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![Dance Theater of Harlem_02_Int_Shared Fitness](https://www.thinkslm.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Dance-Theater-of-Harlem_02_Int_Shared-Fitness.jpg)
![Dance Theater of Harlem_02_Int_Entrance Vestibule w People](https://www.thinkslm.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Dance-Theater-of-Harlem_02_Int_Entrance-Vestibule-w-People.jpg)
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