INWOOD, NY — Developers have filed plans with the city Department of Buildings to construct a seven-story apartment building on a vacant Inwood lot.

The new development at 112 Seaman Ave., located between West 204th Street and Payson Avenue will rise 83-feet-tall and contain 27 apartments, according to building plans. The site was once occupied by twin three-story homes, an oddity for a neighborhood made up mostly of tenement-style buildings.

Landowner Mike Saab applied for a spot upzoning at the site in 2017, but his application was eventually rejected. The upzoning would have allowed Saab to develop a nine-story building with nine apartments offered at below-market rates under the city Mandatory Inclusionary Housing law, a lawyer representing Saab said at a 2017 community board meeting.