City decides on Spofford’s future
The selected proposal mixes 740 units of affordable housing, small businesses and arts organizations, along with a supermarket, a bank and a health and wellness center.
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City’s process to develop Spofford draws rebukes
Some in Hunts Point are frustrated with the city’s Economic Development Corp. for lacking transparency in its process of selecting a winning proposal to develop the closed juvenile detention facility on Spofford Ave.
Many in Hunts Point unaware of Spofford redevelopment
Many Hunts Point residents are unaware of what could be one of the biggest neighborhood projects in decades.
Hunts Point debates Spofford’s fate
Plans to redevelop the notorious Bridges Juvenile Center, better known as Spofford, are finally moving ahead and organizations from the Bronx and beyond want in on the action.
Spofford redux nears planning phase
The city will soon solicit ideas for developing the former juvenile detention center on Spofford Avenue. Community Board 2 wants to be sure local residents are involved in the process from the get-go.
With eye to the future, play looks at Spofford’s past
Hunts Point native Majora Carter has big plans to transform the way the neighborhood is developed.
Competition to replace Spofford jail begins
In the year since Bridges Juvenile Center was decommissioned, the hulking building surrounded by barbed
Spofford shuttered after 53 years
After fifty-three years as a symbol of heavy-handed punishment and a pariah in the city’s
Protesters to city: Fight over Spofford is not over
After decades fighting to get the city to close Bridges Juvenile Justice Center in Hunts