The Shop Workspace, a premier, artfully-designed coworking space with locations across the country, has announced a new location in South Market, New Orleans, will open in Spring 2026. The Shop SOMA is the coworking space’s second location in New Orleans, representing a return to the city following national expansion in Brooklyn and Salt Lake City.

The Shop at the CAC, a coworking space in the Contemporary Arts Center on Camp Street, is expanding to a second location in the nearby South Market district, a mixed-use neighborhood with apartments, condos, restaurants and service-oriented retailers on the edge of the Central Business District. The new location — The Shop SOMA — is set to open later this spring on the ground floor of The Standard, a luxury condominium complex on South Rampart Street. It will have a mix of small private offices, dedicated desks and shared workspaces, along with conference rooms, a kitchen and access to amenities like printers and fax machines.

Thanks to a 2021 rezoning expected to create 9,000 new apartments, paired with an environmental clean-up of the long-contaminated canal, Gowanus is booming. More than 140 residential buildings are planned for the neighborhood, and several are already completed, attracting individuals and families seeking amenity-rich buildings and easy access to Manhattan and other parts of the borough, while being relatively more affordable than neighboring Carroll Gardens and Park Slope. At the center of the community is the Gowanus Canal, which, as its federally-mandated Superfund cleanup continues, is expected to become a new waterfront park, flanked by a promenade, retail, and recreational space. As development continues to reshape the neighborhood, we’re taking a look at the best new rental projects in Gowanus.

For developers of multiunit high-rises, where space is at a premium, the tidy footprint of the technology is particularly appealing, said Jason Hill of The Domain Companies, the developer behind 420 Carroll Street in Brooklyn, a new, all-electric, high-end apartment building. (In New York City, Local Law 97, which prohibits gas line installations in most new residential high-rises, went into effect this year.)

The kitchens feature ranges set into custom-made cabinetry with elements borrowed from old-fashioned Shaker furniture, which provides a warmer, almost suburban look, said Mr. Hill. It also sets them apart from the spare, flat laminate cabinets found in most apartments.

Three new retailers have recently opened at Jasper, bringing the total number to seven retailers at the mixed-use development, located at 2-33 50th Ave. in the Hunters Point section of Long Island City. The retailers, Matsuzuki Sakura, Frankie’s Brooklyn Pizza and Stretchlab, join Club Pilates, Glowbar, Dumbo Market and Kidstrong.

The Urban Land Institute (ULI) New York has recognized 15 projects as finalists for its tenth annual Awards for Excellence in Development. 420 Carroll was selected as a finalist for the Excellence in Market-Rate Housing Development category.

A rezoning and the proximity of brownstone Brooklyn help developers cross the marketing rubicon of building along the area’s canal. For 420 Carroll, a 360-unit mixed-use building that the Domain Companies built along the banks of the canal, DeSimone had to ensure that the foundation was deeper than usual. “The building structure had to be sensitive to potential hydrostatic loads from flood conditions or elevated water levels,” said Boykin. “We want to isolate the interior of the building from any potential unknowns that may exist given the legacy of the project by compartmentalizing the below-grade enclosure of the building, so that there’s no opportunity for gas or leaching of unknown pollutants into the building.” Boykin needed to come up with worst-case scenarios for potential flooding, and defend against them. “All of the low-grade conditions of the building are wrapped in a bathtub of waterproofing up to the design flood elevation,” said Boykin. “So, in concept, the water level can rise, but it can never get into the building.”

Thrilled to share that we were named a winner in the Innovation in Multifamily category and finalists in the Design & Development Project of the Year, Mixed-Use Transaction of the Year, and Marketing Team of the Year categories.

The Brooklyn-based grocery store Dumbo Market has officially opened its newest location at Jasper, a mixed-use development at 2-33 50th Ave. in the Hunters Point section of Long Island City.