If you're framing on the New Stapleton Waterfront, you're working on what's about to be the largest mass timber residential project in NYC. The mayor announced Artimus and Phoenix Realty Group as the developers in May 2025 — 500+ mixed-income units, ground-breaking in 2027, on the former Navy Homeport site. The Tompkinsville Esplanade started construction in April 2025, two acres of new public waterfront. All of it under the $400M North Shore Action Plan.
And that's just the waterfront piece. The 2019 Bay Street Corridor rezoning is projected to deliver around 2,560 incremental dwelling units, 275,000 square feet of commercial, plus community facility space. That's a multi-year build-out that pulls concrete, steel, electrical, plumbing, and finish trades through Bay Street, Front Street, Canal Street, and the side blocks behind Tappen Park.
We're 15 to 20 minutes east on Forest Avenue into Bay Street. Order before 4 PM, we drop at the trailer by 7 AM. That's the standard zone. If you're staging for a Monday morning concrete pour and you're short on knee pads or insulated rain bibs, we'll have them on site before your laborers show up.
"Mass timber framing is its own animal. Cut-resistant gloves rated A4 or A5 on hand all day."
Mass timber framing is its own animal. Cut-resistant gloves rated A4 or A5 on hand all day — we stock the HexArmor and the Mechanix M-Pact A-rated. Composite-toe boots over steel for the crews working alongside the saws (Timberland Pro Helix HD comp-toe is the volume seller). Eye and ear pro stocked deep — the table saws and CNC routers on a mass timber site run all shift.
Bay Street commercial fit-outs are a different list. Restaurant trades want the Labo slip-resistants and Carhartt FR aprons. Concrete on the new ground-floor bases want the rubber knee bibs, the bib overalls, the Carhartt OJ insulated coveralls when the wind comes off the harbor. Electrical and plumbing subs running risers up the new towers want FR henleys, FR sweatshirts, and the Klein and Knipex pliers we keep at the counter.
If you're a GC running multiple Bay Street jobs, the fleet account is built for you. Net-30 terms, volume pricing on five-plus of any item, jobsite delivery to whichever trailer you're staging at this week. Custom screen and vinyl printing in-house, no minimums — useful when you've got a sub showing up Monday and you want them in the company tee on day one.
Stapleton is moving. We're stocking for it.