Reach the top of the brand new 12-story building at 280 E. Houston St.

Top photo by Stacie Joy

Workers reached the top of 280 E. Houston St., the 12-story mixed-use building that has been rapidly growing between Avenue A and Avenue B.

EVG reader Jim Knapp shared the photo below last week showing the newly arrived American flags atop the structure…

As noted, the new building includes 224,809 square feet of space – for residential, commercial and community use. The residential portion will total 211,028 square feet for 157 apartments, according to DOB ​​records. The commercial section will have an area of ​​12,000 square feet, while the community facilities will have an area of ​​1,300 square feet.

Jim also shared this photo showing the property in the late 1980s, before Red Square came to 250 E. Houston St.

The plot previously housed a single-storey strip of storefronts that several years ago were relocated closer to the residential building at No. 250 E. Houston St. (Kapri Cleaners and FedEx Office Print & Ship Center) or closed (Dunkin’/Baskin-Robbins, Subway, Mattress Firm and China Town).

The elongated trapezoidal lot housed a gas station until around 1987. This post from 2016 includes a photo of it.