Developer partners with mosque on Bed-Stuy senior housing

A mosque in Brooklyn is getting into the housing game with the help of a New York-based developer. Kalel Companies and the Masjid Abdul Muhsi Khalifah mosque are pursuing a mixed-use redevelopment of the latter’s space at 1166 Bedford Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crain’s reported. The mosque has owned the site, alternatively addressed at 120 Madison Street, since the 1980s. The venture aims to raze the three-story property and replace it with a 12-story, 94,000-square-foot building with 144 senior housing units, according to a rezoning application submitted to the Department of City Planning. The development would include more than 13,000 square […] This article originally appeared on The Real Deal. Click here to read the full story.