Joffrey Ballet School
Joffrey Ballet School serves a broad group of students from professional dancers to young children. Their new facility in Queens was developed in part to address the summer programs that bring aspiring young dancers from around the world to experience the highest level of dance instruction.
Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School Front Porch
Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, UPC partnered with Brooklyn Laboratory Charter Schools and several leading design firms in NYC to solve some of the space and environmental challenges schools would face as students and staff returned. Together, the assembled team devised a comprehensive ‘Back-to-School Facilities Tool Kit’ which included a range of different solutions to address health, safety and spatial concerns.
Neuroscience Center
A private university with locations in Manhattan and Brooklyn has several projects underway. UPC works with the university’s facilities department to manage renovations throughout their various buildings. Almost all of the projects are in existing buildings, often Landmarked, originally designed for other uses and requiring modernization and adaptation for new program requirements.
Usdan Summer Camp for the Arts
Usdan Summer Camp for the Arts hosts over 70 classes for over 1,500 students every summer at its 140 acre campus. Students have access to 70 studios and theaters, including a 1,000-seat award-winning amphitheater, a drama center, and discovery center; four modern tennis courts; three large outdoor swimming pools; two yoga platforms; an archery range; a Quidditch field; and a recreation area for basketball and other games.
New York Quarterly Meeting
The New York Quarterly Meeting Society of Friends (NYQM) owns and manages several historic buildings surrounded by hardscape and landscape in New York City. They also own and manage two cemeteries. The Society of Friends has had a historic commitment to social justice, and Friends have been active in the abolition of slavery, the advancement of equal rights for women, fairness in immigration, and ending war.
Congregation Beth Elohim
Congregation Beth Elohim (CBE) is a Reform Jewish congregation in Brooklyn and a spiritual, cultural, and intellectual center for Jewish revitalization. CBE occupies two facilities at the intersection of Garfield Place and Eighth Avenue in the Park Slope Landmark District.
State of Being
NoVo Foundation is dedicated to catalyzing a transformation in global society, moving from a culture of domination to one of equality and partnership by imagining new ways of being in community.
Ryan Health
For over 50 years, Ryan Health has been a designated Article 28 family medicine clinic and federally qualified health center providing high-quality, affordable services to medically underserved communities across Manhattan.
Queens Community House
Queens Community House (QCH) is undertaking a complete renovation of the Forest Hills Community Center, its largest program site and administrative headquarters. Approximately 5,000 community members attend programs at the center each year which are supported by a commercial kitchen and large multipurpose room in addition to multiple classrooms and meeting spaces.
The Women’s Building
The State’s first-ever “Women’s Building” was planned as a conversion of the former Bayview Correctional Facility, a 100,000 SF women’s prison located in Chelsea that operated from 1974 to 2013. The program included dedicated working space for community service organizations, an auditorium, gal- leries, a cafe, wellness facilities and a theater.
Korean Community Services
Korean Community Services (KCS) is a non-profit organization that has been serving New York’s Korean and broader Asian Community since 1973. KCS’s mission is to be a bridge for Korean immigrants and the wider Asian community to fully integrate into society and overcome economic, health and social barriers. KCS services include programs in the areas of Aging, Education, Immigration, Workforce Development, Public Health, and Mental Health.
Turnstyle
Turnstyle is a retail center at Columbus Circle with more than 30 shops and creative start-ups. Turnstyle is the first privately financed retail marketplace within the NYC subway system and is a model for public/ private partnerships and transit retail. The project involved integrating amenities and tenant spaces, and coordinating between multiple public and private partners.
Hot Bread Kitchen
Hot Bread Kitchen is a workforce development program that provides job placement and economic mobility for women, immigrants, and people of color in New York City through careers in food. Since its creation in 2008, Hot Bread Kitchen has successfully placed hundreds of women in jobs, incubated over 250 businesses, and has had over $100M in regional economic impact.
Saint Ann’s School
Saint Ann’s School serves Pre-K to 12th grade students in an environment shaped by a philosophy of nurturing the individual pursuit of knowledge. As part of a strategic master plan to upgrade all its facilities, the main 100,000 SF historic building was renovated and two nearby townhouses were converted into one classroom building.
Brooklyn Community Services
Brooklyn Community Services (BCS) is one of the oldest and largest social services providers in Brooklyn, providing support and opportunities to children, adults and families with mental illness and developmental disabilities.
34–40 Steinway
Absolute Development acquired several mid-block retail and warehouse properties in the main business district of Astoria Queens with a goal of repositioning this property for more intensive and upscale uses.
The Cathedral School
Since its founding in 1901, The Cathedral School of St. John of the Divine has been committed to the pursuit of excellence of their students and in making them responsible citizens of New York City and the world.
Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School (LAB) is an open enrollment public charter school located in downtown Brooklyn.