Chung Pak Building

Chung Pak Building
New York City 1992

In response to a court mandated, city detention center, Community Board #1 retained CLA to analyze the impact on the Chinatown community. CLA’s report proposed a mixed use building to screen Chinatown from the detention center. The building would meet the most pressing needs in the community — low income housing, child care, health care and small shops at street level.

Because of a remarkable partnership between two consecutive mayors and the local community the building was built as envisioned. Ten stories of low income elderly housing (HUD Section 202 housing) sits atop a podium with shops at grade, a health center on the second floor and a child care center on the third. This was the first mixed use building for HUD in the country.

CLA designed the podium and the Edelman Partnership designed the housing.