Master Planning
BHC provides master planning services focused on land use, entitlement strategy, and long-term implementation of complex redevelopment projects.
Our work integrates zoning analysis, development yield, infrastructure coordination, circulation, and open space planning into frameworks that can be approved, financed, and built over time. We approach master planning as a practical tool for decision-making—testing density, phasing, and program against regulatory constraints and market realities early in the process.
Our experience includes large-scale, multi-phase urban and transit-oriented developments requiring coordination with municipalities, agencies, and multiple stakeholders. The result is planning that moves beyond vision to deliver clear, implementable paths from concept through construction.
We can review zoning, yield and entitlement strategy
Early feasibility and yield analysis
Approval-ready massing and façade articulation
Constructability-driven detailing
Planning Board and Architectural Review Board experience
Design continuity through approvals and construction
Transit Oriented Development
BHC has designed and advanced numerous transit-oriented developments in coordination with municipalities, agencies, and private developers across Long Island and the greater New York region.
Our TOD work focuses on integrating residential, retail, and civic uses within complex zoning, infrastructure, and public review frameworks. We work closely with stakeholders to balance density, access, parking, and public space while navigating approvals tied to rail proximity, station area planning, and community review.
Representative projects include Wyandanch Village, Copiague Commons, Port Jefferson Crossing, Langdon at Lynbrook Station, Baldwin Commons, The Grand at Baldwin, Riverhead TOD, Carman Place, and 248 North Broadway.
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Market Rate Residential
BHC designs market rate multifamily housing that balances unit yield, amenity programming, and construction realities within entitlement and budget constraints.
Our work emphasizes efficient unit planning, clear circulation, and amenity spaces that support leasing without introducing unnecessary complexity or long-term maintenance risk. We coordinate unit layouts, daylighting, privacy, and shared amenities to align with market expectations while remaining mindful of cost, constructability, and approvals.
Projects range from mid-rise and podium buildings to mixed-use and transit-adjacent residential developments across New York and the Mid-Atlantic.
Workforce Housing
We are one of the leading firms in the Region with over 800 units completed and hundreds more in the pipeline.
The design standards for these type of developments are often challenging due to specific requirements for sustainability, accessibility and levels of quality that surprisingly often surpass the needs of some Market Rate developments.
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Public & Civic
Our public and civic work supports community institutions including libraries, educational facilities, and public buildings that serve as long-term civic anchors.
For example, we have designed over 150 library buildings from Cherry Hill, NJ to Southampton, NY……..from Cold Spring Harbor, NY to Suffern, NY. New buildings, additions and alterations as well as updates and refinements to the projects completed thirty years ago.
We redesigned all the checkout systems throughout the Brooklyn Public Library system and stepped in after Hurricane Sandy to design and to re-open the Coney Island Library in less than a year after the storm went through.
Greenburgh Public Library is pictured to the left.
Hospitality Design
We offer extensive experience in the design and planning of Hotels ranging from high end products such as Four Seasons in Baltimore as well as the Sagamore Pendry Adaptive Re-use project. Additional experience includes the Madison Hotel and Shenandoah Valley Conference Center at JMU University.
We have completed numerous high-rise and mid rise hotels throughout the NE and Mid-Atlantic. This includes the Yorktowne Hotel in York, PA which re-established a 90 year old building in the heart of downtown as a center of social and economic activity.
Interior Design
As the Architects & Interior Designers for numerous Public Libraries as well as the amenity and common areas for dozens of Multi-Family Buildings we have a worked with public entities and private developers to meet budget, select finishes and products that endure for years to come. We coordinate the lighting, the HVAC and electrical requirements to ensure a final construction ready product is prepared.
Harbor Point
Learn more about this transformative re-development in Baltimore, MD.
BHC is proud to have been involved in the planning of the overall development & the architecture for the Exelon Building, 1405 Point and Wills Wharf.
Additional work now under construction includes the 550,000 SF TRowe Price Global Headquarters, Allied Row and the new Marriott.
Wyandanch Village
From ‘Wyandanch Rising’ to ‘Wyandanch Village’ our firm has worked with the Developer, the Town, the County and all their consultants to plan and design this Transit Oriented Development in the heart of Long Island.
The project has been referred to by the New York Times as a "downtown from scratch," consisting of a blend of residential, retail, office, cultural and civic uses. Capitalizing on the site's proximity to an existing Long Island Rail Road train stop, Wyandanch Village has been designed as a comprehensive, “smart growth” transit-oriented development (TOD).
BHC has had the pleasure of serving as the Architect for over 500 apartment units and 30,000 SF of retail.
We have worked through numerous iterations to redefine the original Master Plan and refined Station Plaza and the South Lawn as Public Spaces.