At a glance
Firm: SDS Procida — the condominium-development partnership of the Procida family's building company (Mario Procida) and Second Development Services, Inc. (Louis V. Greco) Principal: Mario Procida (President/CEO of the Procida building and development companies; an architect by training) Family lineage: Procida Construction Corp. traces to 1928; the family moved the business from lower Manhattan to the Bronx in the 1970s and became one of the borough's major affordable-housing rebuilders Headquarters: Bronx, NY, with project-based Manhattan development Focus: A builder-developer — decades of Bronx and outer-borough affordable and mixed-income housing, plus market-rate Manhattan condominiums developed under the SDS Procida banner Design partners: Smith-Miller + Hawkinson (The Dillon), Kutnicki Bernstein (Clinton West), and Richard Meier / Stephen Jacobs (One Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn) Portfolio scale: The family firm cites more than 5,000 housing units developed over its history, concentrated in the Bronx Signature reputation: A capable, government-partnered affordable-housing builder that also delivered a small number of design-forward Manhattan and Brooklyn condominiums; the defect record is essentially clean, with one Brooklyn condominium dispute noted below Source: The Roebling Team at Compass — verified against public records, court filings, and published reporting. July 2026.
Who SDS Procida is
SDS Procida is best understood through the Procida family's construction lineage. Procida Construction Corp. dates to 1928 and is a third-generation, family-owned builder; in the 1970s the family moved the company from lower Manhattan to the Bronx, at the depth of that borough's arson-and-abandonment era, and spent the following decades as one of its principal affordable-housing rebuilders. Mario Procida — an architect by training — leads the building and development companies, and the family's work with state and city housing agencies has continued into the 2020s.
The "SDS" in "SDS Procida" is a point worth getting right: it stands for Second Development Services, Inc., the firm of Louis V. Greco. "SDS Procida" was the joint banner under which Greco's Second Development Services and Mario Procida's building company co-developed a small run of market-rate condominiums, principally in Manhattan and Brooklyn. It is not the name of the architect, and it is not the family's separately-run lending business.
One clarification for readers doing their own research: the Procida family also includes William "Billy" Procida, Mario's brother, who runs a separate New Jersey real estate lending firm (the "100 Mile Fund" / Procida Funding & Advisors). That lending platform is a sibling-run affiliate by blood — not a division of Mario's building company — and the two should not be conflated.
What they build
On the family side, the Procida record is overwhelmingly a Bronx and outer-borough housing story — affordable and mixed-income apartments built in partnership with public agencies, from the 1980s rebuilding of the Bronx through recent projects such as the Mount Hope Walton affordable development. That government-partnered, deliver-the-units track record is the firm's core competence and its longest reputation.
Under the SDS Procida condominium banner, the output was smaller and more design-forward: a handful of full-service condominiums in strong Manhattan and Brooklyn locations, built with named architects rather than commodity plans. Those buildings are the ones a Manhattan condominium buyer is most likely to encounter, and they are the focus of the buildings section below.
Buildings by SDS Procida
SDS Procida projects already profiled on this site:
- The Dillon (405 West 53rd Street) — the 2010 Smith-Miller + Hawkinson condominium in Hell's Kitchen, an 83-home building notable for folding nine triplex townhouses into the base of a boutique full-service building (early filings used the 405 West 53rd address; the completed building is also addressed 425 West 53rd)
- Clinton West (516 West 47th Street) — the 2003 Kutnicki Bernstein condominium in western Hell's Kitchen, a roughly 149-home full-service building organized around a landscaped courtyard, developed early in that corridor's residential turn
Other notable SDS Procida work (pages may follow): One Grand Army Plaza (Brooklyn) — a Richard Meier–designed condominium on Prospect Park, developed under the SDS Procida Development Group banner (see the reputation note below). On the family's affordable side, recent projects include Mount Hope Walton Apartments (1761 Walton Avenue) in the Bronx, a roughly 100-unit affordable building delivered with public partners.
Track record
Mario Procida's building reputation is established and government-validated: he was recognized by trade and industry bodies early in his career, and the family firm has been trusted by state and city housing agencies with affordable-housing work over four decades and into the 2020s — a durable signal of good standing that most private condo developers cannot claim. On the condominium side, the SDS Procida buildings sold through: The Dillon sold out in the years after its 2010 completion, and both it and Clinton West trade actively on the Manhattan resale market today, where their full-service structure and — at The Dillon — genuinely distinctive townhouse product continue to find buyers.
Reputation and what a buyer should know
On the two Manhattan condominiums covered here — The Dillon and Clinton West — no construction-defect litigation, condominium-board suit, or serious construction-safety incident surfaced in the public sources reviewed. As far as those buildings go, the defect record reads clean, and ordinary new-development diligence is the right posture rather than heightened caution.
There is, however, one material dispute in the SDS Procida condominium record, and it is in Brooklyn, not Manhattan. At One Grand Army Plaza, the condominium's board of managers sued SDS Procida Development Group and others in a case that was predominantly a sponsor and financial matter — centered on a missing permanent certificate of occupancy years after occupancy, unpaid common charges on unsold units, and allegations about the handling of sale proceeds — but that also included an allegation of remaining construction defects. In fairness, then: this is a real dispute that touched build quality, but it was primarily a certificate-of-occupancy and sponsor-conduct case, not a straightforward defect suit. Public reporting did not confirm how it was resolved, so we treat the outcome as unverified and note it plainly rather than overstate it.
Beyond that, the disputes associated with the wider Procida name are financial and lending-side — tied to Billy Procida's separate New Jersey lending business — and are not building-defect matters against Mario's building company. We keep those distinct.
For a buyer, the practical takeaway is standard: read the offering plan, confirm the certificate-of-occupancy and lien status of the specific building and unit, and review the warranty and punch list — with no Manhattan-specific red flag on the two buildings profiled here.
The Roebling Team on SDS Procida buildings
We publish developer profiles because a buyer choosing a new-construction or recently-converted condominium is, in part, betting on the developer — its quality, its staying power, and its record when things go wrong. The Roebling Team at Compass tracks the sponsors behind Manhattan's luxury inventory building by building, and we bring that context to every new-development transaction: what the developer has built, how those buildings have held value, and what to verify before you sign.
If you're evaluating an SDS Procida building — or weighing it against another sponsor's product — a 30-minute consultation is the right starting point.
Corey Cohen, Principal · The Roebling Team at Compass 646.939.7375 · c.cohen@compass.com
This developer profile reflects publicly available information — including NYC public records, court filings, and published reporting — and The Roebling Team's transaction experience. It is provided for research purposes and is not legal advice; nothing here alleges wrongdoing or building defects beyond what the cited public record supports. The Roebling Team at Compass does not represent SDS Procida. © 2026 The Roebling Team at Compass.