615 Broadway

Category Developments
Year 2029
Location Kingston, NY

Following their partnership on Wireworks, Baxter Built and Mapos teamed up again to respond to a City of Kingston RFP for 615 Broadway and were awarded the project. The site is 2.2 acres of vacant land next to the Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC) in Midtown Kingston’s Arts District, planned as a mixed-use, multifamily development.

615 Broadway consists of three ground-up buildings surrounding a new 4,000 SF public plaza dedicated to Pauline Oliveros, the influential Kingston sound artist. The new public Pauline Oliveros Deep Listening Plaza (PODLP) brings the public into the center of the project, surrounded by 7,000 SF of ground-floor retail. Mapos’ design centers on the relationship among the new buildings, the public plaza and outdoor space, and the new “face” on Broadway that infills a gap on Kingston’s historic Broadway.

Building 1, a three-story grey brick building on Broadway, is designed to meet historical guidelines and complement the existing historic street facade, with a modern interpretation of the brick cornice, window placements, and a new storefront. A wide gated entry beside it leads into the plaza. Buildings 2and 3, five stories each, sit on the back side of the plaza off Broadway with ground-floor retail facing it. Mapos designed the development and took it through planning, working with the Planning Board under Kingston’s new Form Based Code. The project includes 7,000 SF of ground-floor retail and 68 apartments, 20% designated affordable.

Located next to next to the UPAC in Midtown Kingston, the mixed-use, multi-family development is centered around the new 4,000 SF public Pauline Oliveros Deep Listening Plaza.

The project adds 68 apartments (20% affordable) and 7,000 SF of retail to the growing midtown neighborhood. The facade of the Broadway building is designed to complement and infill the historic streetscape.

The project was awarded through a City of Kingston RFP with Baxter Built. It received planning approval by Mapos under Kingston's new Form Based Code.