WXY’s Post

The Arverne East Multipurpose Building in Rockaway Queens has been officially renamed the “Coastal Conservation Center” by local students from P.S. 106 Lighthouse Elementary School. The renaming ceremony was attended by Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr., Council Member Selvena Brooks-Powers, and other community stakeholders, who praised the vision of the students and presented them with certificates. The 6,000-square-foot Coastal Conservation Center was designed by WXY and is a beacon of sustainability. A closed-loop, geothermal system provides heating and cooling, and a rooftop solar array generates power for the building. It officially opened alongside the adjacent 35-acre Arverne East Nature Preserve in April with a ribbon cutting ceremony, giving the community a new meeting space, offices for park rangers, storage space for the NYC Parks Department, and public restrooms. Since then, the building has become a vibrant community hub and has hosted a wide range of events, including site tours, career days, nutritional cooking classes and even prom for the P.S. 106 fifth graders this past summer. The Arverne East Multipurpose Building is part of the overall Arverne East project that L+M is developing with partners The Bluestone Organization and Triangle Equities, which will transform a 116-acre vacant oceanfront site on the Rockaway Peninsula into the first net-zero community in New York City. It will include 1,650 housing units – 80% of which will be affordable. Read more about the renaming ceremony: https://lnkd.in/eKd63Npq #CommunityDevelopment #CoastalConservationCenter #ArverneEast #Rockaway #Queens #NYC #Geothermal #Sustainability #LMDevelopmentPartners