This new 72-unit residence developed by Common Ground Community includes 18 studios and 54 one bedroom apartments. The deep and narrow site required that a U-shaped mass be configured around a mews-like court with all apartments organized along single loaded corridors. A volume holding the library is set on columns within the court, allowing residence continuous passage from planted mews to rear terrace, where south-facing benches and a central fountain define the rear edge of the site. A green roof terrace overlooking the street is one of several environmentally sustainable amenities, which also include daylight harvesting Kalwall checkerboard facades along either side of the court.

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Saint Marks Avenue is one of a family of six new supportive housing residences which have similar building programs and share a common feature: they all adapt to irregular 'remnant' urban sites.