A nine-story mixed-use tower rising at the corner of Broad Street and Irving Avenue in Port Chester is being marketed under a musical nickname: The Joplin, a nod to Janis Joplin's 1926 performance at the neighboring Capitol Theatre. The building will bring 36 residential units, a rooftop-adjacent office component, and Port Chester's first microbrewery to a site that once held a two-story commercial structure just steps from the village's Metro-North station.
Renderings of the nearly 40,000-square-foot project were revealed by New York YIMBY, whose writers Michael Young and Matt Pruznick detailed a design from Sarrazin Architecture featuring a rectangular main massing wrapped in dark metal paneling, a red brick podium topped with a terrace, and mullion-free windows arranged in a straightforward grid. The top story stands out with floor-to-ceiling windows, vertical louvers, and a short bulkhead capping the structure. The building, also addressed as 136-138 Irving Avenue, is expected to be finished by early 2027, according to the outlet's report.
The project has evolved considerably since it was first approved. Port Chester originally signed off on the plans in May 2020 for a version that called for four floors of office space and just 22 residential units, per New York YIMBY. The Village Planning Commission approved market-driven amendments in March 2021 that swapped two floors of office space for 14 additional residential units, bringing the unit count to its current 36 studio-to-one-bedroom layouts. Under the revised design, floors three through five now hold 4,000 square feet of office space, while levels six through nine are set aside for apartments.
A Microbrewery Years in the Making
The ground level and second floor are being built out for Run & Hide Brewing Co., which will operate as Port Chester's first microbrewery. The brewpub is expected to employ eight full-time craft brewers, an operation that, according to Cuddy & Feder LLP, increases the site's job density more than fivefold compared with the property's former commercial use. The White Plains law firm represented developer 30 Broad Development LLC and secured entitlement approvals from the Village Planning Commission, Zoning Board of Appeals, and Industrial Development Agency.
Getting Run & Hide to this point took years longer than founder Tim Shanley likely anticipated. He was originally awarded a state grant tied to the 30 Broad Street site before COVID-19 pandemic disruptions halted the initial development, forcing him to produce contract beers across New York and Connecticut through so-called gypsy brewing at host facilities. Shanley eventually opened a temporary taproom in Port Chester in January 2023 while waiting for the permanent space, according to CT Bites' account of the brewery's origin story.
Public Money and Local Jobs
Financial review filings with the Port Chester Industrial Development Agency put total project costs at roughly $15 million, backed by a 22-year Payment-In-Lieu-Of-Tax agreement executed in September 2022 that provides about $4.4 million in tax abatement value. The PILOT freezes the property's base valuation and gradually phases out exemptions over more than two decades. New York YIMBY reports the project is expected to create 200 construction jobs, 42 permanent full-time positions, and six permanent part-time jobs once complete.
Construction compliance reports filed with the IDA in October 2025 show general contractor Kings Capital Construction met local hiring benchmarks, with 97% of project workers being New York State residents and 54% residing in Westchester County. Those figures came from quarterly monitoring required under the agency's incentive guidelines.
Part of a Bigger Downtown Shift
The Broad Street tower sits adjacent to the Port Chester Metro-North station, which provides direct access to Grand Central Terminal, and it's one of several projects reshaping downtown under the village's 2020 form-based zoning code. That code, adopted in May 2020, made Port Chester only the second municipality in New York State after Buffalo to embrace the approach, concentrating high-density, transit-oriented development around the train station while preserving single-family neighborhoods elsewhere, according to the Brownfield Coalition of the Northeast.
Developer St. Katherine Group, founded in the U.S. in 2012 by Nick Williams, has been expanding its footprint in the village well beyond 30 Broad Street. The firm's affiliate, Katherine Acre Partners, broke ground in June on a $78.5 million, 140-unit residential tower at nearby 28 Pearl Street, as reported by Westfair Communications. Hoodline recently covered another tower rising nearby, The Magnolia at 146 Westchester Avenue, another St. Katherine Group project designed by Sarrazin Architecture under the same zoning framework.
The building boom extends across Westchester County more broadly. Commercial real estate tracking by RM Friedland found the county delivered 6,500 multifamily housing units between 2022 and 2024, with another 11,000 under active construction and 17,100 more proposed, growth largely attributed to New York City transplants seeking walkable transit hubs, according to 914 Inc.'s reporting. In response to the pace of change, Port Chester launched an official update to its 2012 Comprehensive Plan in April, establishing an advisory committee to evaluate infrastructure impacts and land-use priorities as multiple high-density towers rise downtown simultaneously, per Talk of the Sound.
