Via Verde, Grimshaw Architects and Dattner Architects‘ sustainable housing development for the South Bronx, is officially open.

The subsidized complex developed as part of Mayor Bloomberg’s New Housing Marketplace Plan with the intention to finance over 160,000 units of affordable housing by the close of Fiscal Year 2014. After winning a competition organized by the Commissioner of the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development, Jonathan Rose and Phipps Houses Group teamed with Grimshaw Architects and Dattner Architects to bring New York City its first juried design competition proposal for affordable and sustainable housing.