From the Daily News:
A spacious convention center and 25-story hotel and apartment complex will soon rise on the site of a Corona car dealership near Citi Field.
Fleet Financial Group plans to break ground on the $200 million project in June. The Flushing-based group purchased the 1.67-acre DiBlasi Ford dealership, at 112-21 Northern Blvd., for $17 million last month.
The site sits across the Grand Central Parkway from Citi Field, where a $3 billion mega-mall and housing complex is planned for Willets Point.
The group plans to build 292 five-star hotel rooms and 236 apartments above the roughly 106,000-square-foot convention center. The project will also include about 97,000 square feet of retail space, a restaurant and parking.
Xia is also in talks with Audi to put a showroom on the site.
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In Corona? Do these idiots know where they are building? Good luck trying to create anything 'high end' around there.
Why do developers keep wanting to put hotels in queens? Who is going to stay in a hotel in corona? This is just as dumb as the one they want to put up in Jamaica. If I were a tourist coming here, I would go all out and stay in a hotel In Manhattan, not in corona or Jamaica.
A convention center? I think that's the most useless thing to put there. Yes, house a convention center around a bunch of illegals! That's the stupidest idea I've heard yet!
This is fantastic!
We desperatly need a small regional
convention facility for NYC.
This project is right by the airports and highways within striking distance of Manhattan.
It continues to prove that Queens is being reinvigorated.
We need to balace the past with the future.
Let's all continue to be vigilant.
They're putting a convention center in the boondocks where transportation is lacking? Haven't they learned from the Javits Center?
Anon No. 5:
Anon No: 5:
Queens is being worn out by plans like this, not reinvigorated.
And who says we need a new convention center? And desperately at that? Don't we have one already?
How does one balace some thing? I know how to balance, but balace?
I'm sure Bill Sandinista DuhBlazio will kaibosh this immediately, right? We're so lucky we have a card carrying communist for the next 12 years!
This is fantastic!
FOR WHOM, THE DEVELOPER? CANNOT THINK OF ONE REASON AS TO HOW THE COMMUNITY WILL BENEFIT.
We desperatly need a small regional convention facility for NYC.
BECAUSE .... EVERY FREAKEN HOTEL NEAR THE AIRPORT HAS SPACE FOR THIS - TO SAY NOTHING OF POPPENHUSEN OR FT TOTTENT THAT WOULD LOVE TO PUT THEIR SPACE TO USE AND EARN MONEY TO COVER COSTS.
This project is right by the airports and highways within striking distance of Manhattan.
SOUNDS LIKE A PLOT LINE FOR A MOVIE ABOUT A DRUG DEAL.
It continues to prove that Queens is being reinvigorated.
SURE, EVERY CITY IN EVERY THIRD WORLD COUNTRY IS BEING JAMMED WITH IMPOSSIBLE TRAFFIC AND UGLY ARCHITECTURE. CAIRO, NAIROBI, LAGOS, CALCUTTA ARE ARE "INVIGORATED" TOO.
We need to balace the past with the future.
...AND TO SALUTE THE FLAG EVERY TIME IS IT FLOWN (?)
Let's all continue to be vigilant.
... AND RECITE THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE (?)
Another future human barracks near the 7 line for the Manhattan elite.
The convention center would make a great indoor shape up hall for day laborers.
Wow really?? This is what Queens needs?? This is absolute bullsh*t what is going on in this borough. I can't bear to look at another eyesore. Why is DiBlasi ford selling out their community? They should be ashamed of themselves. These owners of houses, properties and lands really don't give a sh*t about the community that supported them all those years. They sell out so quickly. In all fairness they are entitled to do what they like but there are no more morals, consideration or compassion for communities anymore.
Another hot sheets hotel for Queens. Yippee!
That's perfect! After the next disaster the illegals will have a shelter close to them! Think Katrina.
Ask the community board, the electeds, and your local newspapers how they feel about this - then have a field day with parodies on their (lack of) response.
The only way we can stop this bullshit is to make so much fun of these 'institutions' that are responsible for this that they have no credibility and become the useless laughing stock they all deserve to be.
Then we can start new.
how could anyone complain about this/
it's in the middle of nowhere at the intersection of major highways and there are other hotels in the area..
just NIMBYists complainers at their finest.
Because it's not near public transportation, which is required for conventioneers in NYC. Hello?
the 7 train is five blocks away..
Exactly. The 7 train is 5 blocks away, and no one is schlepping through ghetto Corona to get to a convention center. Furthermore, conventions are being held in less expensive cities these days.
The Q66 bus (Queens Plaza bound) currently stops directly in front of DiBlasi Ford. Its first stop is in front of the #7 Main Street Station.
The Flushing bound Q66 stops directly across the street from the dealership in front of the Dorie Miller apartments.
The Q48 currently makes a stop on 108th & Northern from Main Street before heading to LaGuardia Airport.
The Q48 is similar to the Q66, but it travels along Roosevelt with stops at the following #7 train stations: Main Street, Willets Point, and 111th Street.
Perhaps the MTA will reconfigure the routes for the new complex. If not, the hotel and convention center will have to rely on a fleet of vans to ferry people in the same manner as the neighboring Marriott Hotel on 112th Street.
Either way, it's gonna get more crowded in East Elmhurst.
A Legal Latino
Conventioneers aren't going to take buses. Hell, most residents won't take them.
Sounds like something they're going to get plans approved for and then flip. Doubt it will ever be built.
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