City officials have selected the team to develop an almost 300-unit mixed-use project in Hudson Square.

The Department of Housing Preservation and Development and the Department of Parks and Recreation have tapped Camber Property Group, Services for the Underserved and Essence Development to construct the project at 388 Hudson St., they announced Thursday.

The complex, called Hudson Mosaic, will feature affordable and supportive housing, along with a new recreation center that the Parks Department will own and operate. It will be the first city-led development to combine affordable housing with a Parks Department rec center and marks the latest push from Mayor Eric Adams’ outgoing administration to build more housing on public land.

Hudson Mosaic will rise on what is now an underutilized lot owned by the city’s Department of Environmental Protection, located between Clarkson and West Houston streets. The entirely affordable residential units will be for single adults, couples and families earning a range of low to moderate incomes, with at least 15% of units set aside for the formerly homeless. Services for the Underserved will provide on-site clinical and support services for residents.

The recreation center, meanwhile, will include an indoor pool with six lanes, a gym with a full-size basketball court, an indoor track and multipurpose rooms for a range of different programs. It will serve as an anchor for the city’s roughly $164 million investment in what it has dubbed the Clarkson Street Corridor, a plan the city announced in August that aims to transform this stretch of the West Village and Hudson Square into a hub for recreation, culture and fitness. Other amenities in Hudson Mosaic will include an outdoor terrace on the sixth floor, a computer room and a children’s playroom.

The development team and the city will now work to get the necessary public approvals for the project and secure construction financing. They are still working out many details, including the exact number of residential units, the area median income levels those units will accommodate, the size of the project and the expected total cost. HPD expects the project to take at least a few years to complete. Ahmed Tigani, acting commissioner of HPD, called Hudson Mosaic “a demonstration of HPD’s commitment to building homes and neighborhoods that give every New Yorker the chance to thrive and live a life with dignity.”

Increasing the city’s housing supply has been a major goal of the Adams administration, which has selected a flurry of development teams to build projects on publicly-owned sites in its final weeks. Officials recently tapped Slate Property Group, Xenolith Partners and Comunilife to construct a more than 600-unit mixed-use project at 4095 Ninth Ave. in Inwood. They also picked GFP Real Estate to turn 100 Gold St. in the Financial District into a project with 3,700 housing units.

The project is the result of a partnership between the Institute for Community Living (ICL), the New York City Department of Social Services, and Camber Property Group.

What was once an empty lot in Cypress Hill has been transformed into a beacon of hope and stability. The Atlantic, the neighborhood’s newest 100 percent affordable housing development, is now home to 183 individuals and families who previously lacked a permanent place to live.

The project is the result of a partnership between the Institute for Community Living (ICL), the New York City Department of Social Services, and Camber Property Group. Together, they’ve created permanent housing designed specifically for people transitioning out of the shelter system, offering not just apartments, but the foundation for long-term stability and healing.

“Housing for individuals leaving shelter can feel very limited in the city,” said Dr. Jeanine Costley, Senior Vice President of Transitional Services at ICL. “This environment allows them to have an apartment, to have their own space, and really heal from the trauma of homelessness.”

For residents like Victor Rivera, the move has been life-changing. Victor and his 88-year-old mother spent years moving from place to place before landing in a shelter, where they shared a single room with others and struggled with basic daily needs.

“We had to share a room with other people – sometimes they weren’t clean,” Rivera said. “I like this place here because my mom is comfortable. She’s happy. She got her room and I got my room.”

While in the shelter, even meals were a challenge. Rivera recalls rigid meal schedules and limited options.

“They had certain times to eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner. We ate hero sandwiches for like four months every day for lunch,” he said. “I’d be buying breakfast, lunch, and dinner all at the same time and keeping it in the room.”

Today, life looks very different. Residents now prepare warm meals in their own kitchens and have access to amenities such as a gym, a rooftop deck, and on-site health services, features that support both physical well-being and a sense of dignity.

Another unique aspect of the development is what’s coming next door. An adjacent space will soon become an Institute for Community Living office, bringing essential programs and services even closer to the residents and the surrounding community.

“We have all of these services on site that help provide tenants with the support that they need to continue living here,” Dr. Costley said.

For Rivera, the true value of The Atlantic goes beyond modern amenities or added security. It’s about belonging.

“At the end of the day, it didn’t matter about it being a new building, that’s cool,” he said. “It didn’t really matter about the security. It’s just it’s ours.”

Dr. Costley tells News 12 that The Atlantic is expected to be fully occupied by March 2026.

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