253 Academy
jersey city, New Jersey
2017-2021
253 Academy Street is GRO’s third micro-housing project, brings 77 studio units and two larger apartments to a corner lot in the Journal Square section of Jersey City, adjacent to the Hudson Community College campus. The project’s average unit size is approximately 350 square feet. The project makes use of an existing basement from a previous structure and provides amenity spaces including two multifunction community rooms, bike storage, laundry, a gym, and tenant storage over the basement and ground floor levels. The ground floor is split to allow for raised units along Tuers Avenue. The project is constructed in prefabricated modules as micro-housing lends itself particularly well to modular construction, with each residential studio being assembled as a stand-alone modular unit. In addition to providing additional storage space for the studios, the cantilevered masses cast a shadow over the fresh air intake locations of the building’s heating and cooling systems, minimizing their visual impact.
KEY PROJECT INFORMATION
Pointe Developers Retail, LLC
GRO Architects: Richard Garber + Nicole Robertson, Principals; Zeyuan Qian, Project Manager; Nicole Couville, Briana Mc- Loughlin, Jeannie Rhyu
Modular Steel Systems, INC
Christie Engineering, PC
Optimized Engineering Associates
EKA Associate
44,500 sf
$8,250,000
2017-2021