East New York is a neighborhood of Brooklyn undergoing a vast amount of change. With high numbers of new construction permits being granted regularly, worry over gentrification, displacement, and transit access abounds. For longtime residents of the area, the Christian Cultural Center (CCC), a pillar of worship, learning, and social service, has provided a sense of stability as their neighborhood transforms around them. For the CCC’s leader, Reverend A. R. Bernard, it is of upmost importance to make sure that any new growth is sustainable and beneficial to current residents. PAU has collaborated with Reverend Bernard, the Gotham Organization, the local community and NYC’s elected officials for the last seven years to create an equitable and attainable residential and cultural hub for this rapidly changing part of Brooklyn on the CCC’s parking lot. The 11-acre site will be reimagined with a performing arts center, day care facility, and vocational school joining the existing CCC to form the cultural heart of a new residential neighborhood with over 2,200 affordable housing units ranging from transitional to workforce homes forming a new streetwall. A new interior street network, in some cases lined with two-story home ownership maisonettes, will connect pedestrians to the surrounding street grid to tie the new community to its context. Social infrastructure permeates the projects ground floor. PAU has worked with the constraints of a tight construction budget; the buildings, which have modest energy efficiency measures, will be constructed out of block and plank with a series of brick façades requested by the community to provide quiet dignity.