Community spaces throughout the four-level podium serve residents and the wider neighborhood, ensuring a variety of services and amenities not possible in a more conventionally programmed project. In spaces across the third and fourth floor, the Grand Street Settlement operates programs for early childhood, children and youth, adults, and senior citizens. The flexible spaces include a community center with a large roof terrace, shared with residents. On the third floor, The Little Stars of Broome Street Early Childcare Center serves 65 two to five year olds, and Henry Street Settlement provides social services to neighborhood residents.

Together, Dattner and the client worked to realize the Joan H. & Preston Robert Tisch Center At Essex Crossing, a patient-centered, integrated academic Medical Center. The Academic Medical Center is a new state-of-the art facility encompassing a Physical Therapy practice, an Ambulatory Surgery Center, and two family/primary care practices. The various and complex program requirements were integrated seamlessly across three floors of the building to allow for optimal flow and performance, while focusing on the patient experience.