The centerpiece of the proposal

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The Howard Hughes Corporation (HHC) unveiled a comprehensive proposal for Lower Manhattan’s Seaport area, including the transformation of an underutilized full-block surface parking lot along the boundary of the South Street Seaport Historic District into a mixed-income development that would include some of the area’s first new affordable housing in decades.

The $1.4-billion proposal also seeks to provide long-term financial stability of the South Street Seaport Museum, improvements to the museum’s historic buildings that will allow it to reopen, and a design for a new museum building on an whatsapp number database adjacent vacant lot. HHC’s plan comes after more than a year of community input that helped shape it. The plans were designed by architecture and urban design firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM).

is 250 Water Street, which will include the first affordable housing built in Manhattan Community Board 1 through the city’s Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH) program. It will bring at least 100 critically needed permanently affordable apartments to a Community Board district where just 2.5 percent of all housing qualifies as affordable.