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The firms of Robert Horsford (General Contractor) and Harrison Rayford partner to implement a passive house design for twenty-nine homes at Balton Commons, 263-267 126th Street in Harlem. The site will include a coffee shop and a tech incubator company, Silicon Harlem, geared toward STEM enrichment and education for high school students.

“This is fantastic,” he says. “We have a fantastic team of predominantly minority and lead organizations to bring much-needed affordable housing to the Brooklyn community.”

“I went to Brooklyn tech high school around the corner from here, I was born in Brooklyn hospital, so this project has a lot of meaning to me because its in the neighborhood I grew up in,” said Lee Brathwaite, the CEO of Apex Building Group.

Lazarre-White said a few people warned him beforehand that “it would be impossible to construct a complicated building like this and also focus on Black and brown architects and developers.” BroSis enlisted the Harlem-based Apex Building Group.

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Apex Building Group is a part of the development team that is featured in this article about the Alafia project.

L+M is partnering on the project with Harlem-based Apex Building Group, Services for the Underserved and Brooklyn nonprofit RiseBoro Community Partnership, run by Scott Short.

“We are so proud to have been part of such an exciting endeavor and historic moment for The Brotherhood Sister Sol. From the onset, this was not just another construction project for us…

NYCHA’s private partners, all minority and women-owned businesses, include Dantes Partners, Apex Building Group, Pyramid ETC Companies, and Faria Management.

The development team is Apex Building Company, Inc., and L+M Development Partners, LLC.

Services for the UnderServed (S:US) is partnering with L+M Development Partners, Apex Building Company and RiseBoro Community Partnership to develop a mixed-use campus in the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn.

The development team behind the project includes Apex Building Company, L+M Development Partners, Services for the UnderServed, and RiseBoro Community Partnership.

KeyBank Community Development Lending and Investment (CDLI) closed the financing for the renovation, which will be undertaken by a joint venture development team…

The affordable housing lottery has launched for Balton Commons, a seven-story mixed-use building at 267 West 126th Street, in Harlem, Manhattan. Designed by Aufgang Architects and developed by Lemor Development Group and Apex Building Group…

“Apex is honored to be a part of the winning team bringing much needed affordable housing to the Prospect Heights community,” said CEO of Apex Building Group Lee Brathwaite.

Governor Kathy Hochul’s Chief Diversity Officer Julissa Gutierrez moderated an insightful conversation with Raquel E Diaz of Gilbane Building Company, Tanya Pope of Columbia University, Robert Horsford of Apex Building Group, Angela Pinsky of Google, and Iris Weinshall of The New York Public Library.