--- title: The Avery — Mixed-Use, Brooklyn — Meridian Build description: Project case study — The Avery, Brooklyn. --- [![Meridian Build](https://www.nopethemes.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/studionope-for-construction/images/logos/meridian-build-white.png) ![Meridian Build](https://www.nopethemes.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/studionope-for-construction/images/logos/meridian-build-black.png)](https://www.nopethemes.com/meridian-build?hsLang=en) MENU × [![Meridian Build](https://www.nopethemes.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/studionope-for-construction/images/logos/meridian-build-black.png)](https://www.nopethemes.com/meridian-build?hsLang=en) - [Home](https://www.nopethemes.com/meridian-build?hsLang=en) - [About](https://www.nopethemes.com/meridian-build/company?hsLang=en) - [Solutions](https://www.nopethemes.com/meridian-build/solutions?hsLang=en) - [Expertise](https://www.nopethemes.com/meridian-build/expertise?hsLang=en) - [Commercial Real Estate](https://www.nopethemes.com/meridian-build/sector/commercial-real-estate?hsLang=en) - [Aviation](https://www.nopethemes.com/meridian-build/sector/aviation?hsLang=en) - [Sport & Leisure](https://www.nopethemes.com/meridian-build/sector/sport-leisure?hsLang=en) - [Projects](https://www.nopethemes.com/meridian-build/gallery?hsLang=en) - [All projects](https://www.nopethemes.com/meridian-build/gallery?hsLang=en) - [Featured case study](https://www.nopethemes.com/meridian-build/project?hsLang=en) - [Responsibility](https://www.nopethemes.com/meridian-build/responsibility?hsLang=en) - [Careers](https://www.nopethemes.com/meridian-build/careers?hsLang=en) - Insights - [Journal](https://www.nopethemes.com/meridian-build/blog?hsLang=en) - [News](https://www.nopethemes.com/meridian-build/news?hsLang=en) - [Resources](https://www.nopethemes.com/meridian-build/resources?hsLang=en) - [Contact](https://www.nopethemes.com/meridian-build/contact?hsLang=en) ![The Avery — completed mixed-use development, Brooklyn](https://www.nopethemes.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/studionope-for-construction/images/templates/helper-img-1.jpg) # The Avery — Mixed-Use, Brooklyn A 320,000 sq ft mixed-use scheme combining 184 residential units, 28,000 sq ft of street-level retail, and a public courtyard tying two formerly disconnected blocks together. Delivered May 2025. The brief ## A development that had to feel like the neighbourhood, not impose on it The client — a Brooklyn-based developer with three previous projects in the borough — came to us with a permitted scheme and a problem. The original GC had walked at week 14 over a structural-steel cost dispute, and the design team's drawings still had open coordination flags around the podium-deck transfer. We took on the project as design-build, picked up the design coordination through our in-house engineering team, and re-tendered the steel package within six weeks. The client's original delivery date held — but only because we wrote the schedule from the bottom up rather than inheriting the previous team's plan. ![Site progress, Q3 2024](https://www.nopethemes.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/studionope-for-construction/images/templates/helper-img-1.jpg) From the field ## The Avery, in pictures Site progress, hand-over photos, and the moments in between — captured by our project photographer over 22 months on site. ![The Avery — completed facade](https://www.nopethemes.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/studionope-for-construction/images/templates/helper-img-1.jpg) Completed facade — Bedford Avenue elevation ![Final podium and tower volume](https://www.nopethemes.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/studionope-for-construction/images/templates/helper-img-8.jpg) Podium-tower transition at handover ![Underpinning works on party wall](https://www.nopethemes.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/studionope-for-construction/images/templates/helper-img-2.jpg) Underpinning the 1908 party wall — week 6 ![Modular MEP riser being craned in](https://www.nopethemes.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/studionope-for-construction/images/templates/helper-img-11.jpg) Modular MEP riser — night-shift lift ![Tower crane during steel erection](https://www.nopethemes.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/studionope-for-construction/images/templates/helper-img-4.jpg) Steel erection — level 9 platform ![Public courtyard, post-completion](https://www.nopethemes.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/studionope-for-construction/images/templates/helper-img-7.jpg) Public courtyard — first community event ![Curtain wall installation](https://www.nopethemes.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/studionope-for-construction/images/templates/helper-img-6.jpg) Curtain wall installation — week 64 ![Lobby fit-out at handover](https://www.nopethemes.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/studionope-for-construction/images/templates/helper-img-12.jpg) Residential lobby — pre-occupancy walk The Avery, by the numbers ## A 22-month delivery, end to end - 320,000 sq ft Total floor area 184 residential + 12 retail + courtyard - 0 mo On site Recovery schedule, hit on day one - $1.8m Returned to client Open-book savings vs GMP - 0 Recordable incidents Across 320,000 site-hours Challenges ## A site with no margin for error The site sat between two occupied buildings with party walls dating to 1908. Foundation work required underpinning a six-storey neighbour while keeping its tenants in occupation. Two of those tenants ran ground-floor businesses where vibration would have stopped trade. We worked with a vibration-monitoring specialist to install real-time sensors before any pile work started, set thresholds 40% below code minimum, and built the schedule around windows when the affected businesses were closed. Zero claims, zero downtime for the neighbours, zero programme slippage. ![Underpinning works on the party wall](https://www.nopethemes.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/studionope-for-construction/images/templates/helper-img-2.jpg) Approach ## Self-perform concrete, modular MEP We self-performed the structural concrete — slab on grade through level 14 — using a single tower crane and a 28-day pour cycle that gave the steel and facade trades predictable hand-offs. The MEP risers were pre-fabricated off-site in 12-foot modules, lifted into place during the night-shift window, and connected with quick-disconnect fittings. That alone saved 47 site days. The podium-deck transfer — the hand-off point that derailed the previous team — was redesigned as a hybrid steel-concrete composite truss. We tendered and built it in eight weeks, ten days ahead of the redrawn schedule. ![Modular MEP riser being craned into position](https://www.nopethemes.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/studionope-for-construction/images/templates/helper-img-11.jpg) Recovery takeover ## Week 14 condition vs. handover Drag to compare the site as we found it — abandoned by the original GC mid-pour — with the completed Bedford Avenue elevation 22 months later. ![The Avery — completed Bedford Avenue elevation](https://www.nopethemes.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/studionope-for-construction/images/templates/helper-img-8.jpg) Handover ![Avery site at week 14 — recovery takeover condition](https://www.nopethemes.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/studionope-for-construction/images/templates/helper-img-2.jpg) Week 14 Results ## Delivered on the original date, $1.8m under final budget Substantial completion was issued 11 days ahead of the recovery schedule, matching the developer's original target despite the 14-week delay we inherited. Final cost was $1.8m under the contracted GMP, with the savings returned to the client per our open-book agreement. 184 units leased within 90 days of TCO. The retail spaces were fully signed before practical completion. The public courtyard — a contractual community-amenity requirement — has become a regular venue for the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation's summer programming. [DISCUSS YOUR PROJECT](https://www.nopethemes.com/meridian-build/contact?hsLang=en) ![Public courtyard, post-completion](https://www.nopethemes.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/studionope-for-construction/images/templates/helper-img-7.jpg) In their words > “Meridian Build inherited a project that was 14 weeks behind, with our original GC walked off site and a half-poured podium deck nobody wanted to claim. They ran a 30-day audit, rewrote the schedule from the bottom up, and brought the building in on the original handover date — $1.8m under our GMP. Eleven years and four projects later, they're still our default choice.” ![Robert Chen](https://www.nopethemes.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/studionope-for-construction/images/templates/portrait-3.jpg) Robert Chen Managing Partner · Bedford-Stuyvesant Development Partners Project facts ## The Avery, by the numbers - ### Client Bedford-Stuyvesant Development Partners - ### Location Brooklyn, NY - ### Sector Mixed-use residential + retail - ### Floor area 320,000 sq ft - ### Units 184 residential, 12 retail - ### Procurement Design-build (rescue takeover) - ### Programme 22 months on site - ### Completed May 2025 Related work ## Other mixed-use projects - ### [![Holloway District Mixed-Use](https://www.nopethemes.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/studionope-for-construction/images/templates/helper-img-6.jpg) 01 Holloway District Mixed-Use London, UK](https://www.nopethemes.com/meridian-build/project/sample-project?hsLang=en) - ### [![Marlow Design District](https://www.nopethemes.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/studionope-for-construction/images/templates/helper-img-4.jpg) 02 Marlow Design District Toronto, ON](https://www.nopethemes.com/meridian-build/project/sample-project?hsLang=en) - ### [![Linden Wharf Redevelopment](https://www.nopethemes.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/studionope-for-construction/images/templates/helper-img-9.jpg) 03 Linden Wharf Redevelopment Hamburg, DE](https://www.nopethemes.com/meridian-build/project/sample-project?hsLang=en) [ALL PROJECTS](https://www.nopethemes.com/meridian-build/expertise?hsLang=en) Working on something similar? ## Bring the brief, even if it's already in motion. 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