Via Verde, in the South Bronx, will have 201 apartment units and will be a green building with solar panels, rainwater systems, and residential vegetable gardens. The project is part of Mayor Bloomberg's goal of achieving 165,000 affordable housing units by 2014. Via Verde marks the 100,000th unit towards this achievement.

The Bronx Museum of the Arts and the Design Trust for Public Space announced the winners for the international ideas competition for the Grand Concourse. In the winning design, Purifying Urban Modular Parasite (called pUMp) air-filtration devices will be placed near the Grand Concourse roadway to help mitigate child asthma concerns.

The City Council approved rezoning plans for 30 blocks of the Lower Grand Concourse. The rezoning paves the way for new residential and commercial developments as well as public open spaces.

The NY Daily News describes a proposed South Bronx Rezoning as at attempt to bring the glitz of Manhattan’s SoHo to the gritty South Bronx. City officials hope that rezoning the Lower Grand Concourse area of the South Bronx will revitalize the area, which is currently largely used industrial or manufacturing purposes yet suffers from chronic vacancy issues.

A number of planned residential developments in the South Bronx have fallen through due to uncertainty surrounding the area's rezoning and the declining economy. The Bloomberg administration is planning to rezone Melrose Commons, the Lower Grand Concourse and the Bronx Civic Center to allow mixed uses with denser residential development.

The Department of City Planning will begin public review of a plan to rezone a dormant industrial district on the Lower Grand Concourse in the South Bronx. The proposed zoning would allow residential development in the area for the first time while preserving some existing manufacturing uses. The rezoning includes a 30-block area between East 149th Street the Harlem River and Morris Avenue.

The Bloomberg Administration announced an initiative to overhaul a portion of the South Bronx south of Yankee Stadium. Currently, the area has a large amount of parking lots, auto repair shops and industrial uses.

In October 2008, the Bronx Supreme Court judge rule that the School Construction Authority (SCA) violated the State Environmental Quality Review Act by approving the contaminated Mott Haven Schools Complex without making a detailed plan to protect students from future toxins first. City lawyers now say it was a big misunderstanding and that the SCA followed the state Department of Environmental Conservation's...

A state judge ruled that New York City officials did not take necessary precautions to ensure that students and the public would not be exposed to pollutants in the future, when it began building the Mott Haven school campus. The judge’s order requires the School Construction Authority to submit a supplemental impact statement detailing its long-term monitoring plan. The plaintiff’s lawyers say the...

As part of their Livable Streets program, the city’s Department of Transportation (DOT) is making over many of the streets in the HUB Retail District in the Bronx. Most notably, the plans call for the creation of the Roberto Clemente Plaza, a pedestrian plaza that will take over Willis Avenue from the HUB to 148th Street. The HUB Business Improvement District (BID) supports the effort by DOT in...