Arverne East
Client: L+M, Bluestone Group, Triangle Equities
Location: Far Rockaway, Queens, New York
Size: 80 acres
Collaborators: Local Office Landscape Architects, Ginsberg Architects, White Architecture, Sam Schwartz Transportation Planners, Langan
Year: 2015
Services: Resiliency Planning, Ecological Wastewater Treatment, Sustainable Stormwater, Solid Waste Planning
Context
Arverne East is a master planned community on an 80-acre site in Far Rockaway, Queens, planned to accommodate 1,500 housing units and 300,000 square feet of retail. Located in a FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area Zone, the oceanfront site is particularly vulnerable to flooding both from coastal storm surge from the ocean as well as from still-water flooding from Jamaica Bay. The master plan for Arverne East included strategies for resilient power, water, wastewater, transportation, and evacuation as well as locations for community disaster recovery centers.
Our Role
Level Infrastructure provided technical support for all resilience strategies through a collaborative design process with the entire master planning team. The design was intended to be a model for a new type of coastal development that includes ecological dune protection, 100% on-site renewable energy, 100% on-site wastewater treatment and recycling, a waste-to-energy facility, and stormwater drainage plans integrated with parks and recreational space.
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