Developer Tishman Speyer released a rendering and update Monday on its massive, two-tower office and retail complex planned for Queens Plaza — a project city officials are calling a "major job generator" for the neighborhood.
The developer and investment company Qatari Diar are building the 1.1-million-square-foot project at 28-10 Queens Plaza South, next to Tishman Speyer's existing building at 2 Gotham Center, which houses offices for the city's Department of Health.
The complex will feature two, 27-story office towers connected by four stories of retail at their base, which will include a food hall, restaurant and parking garage, according to the developers.
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I do not think that this will improve traffic flow onto the bridge...
"The developer and investment company Qatari Diar..."
Are our hack electeds and city planners that jealous of Dubai?
I guess more money in the queens counselman's pockets -
Could be good for people who can't afford the ridiculous prices in Manhattan.
I myself live and work in Queens and cant imagine making a commute to the City.
This development mix didn't work there 25 years ago, what makes them think it would work now?
Keep them coming. This area was a shit hole just a few years ago. I welcome the new developments. Hopefully it will bring quality jobs to the area so i don't have to commute to the city every morning. I do also hope they create commercial spaces for restaurants, eateries.
I do also hope they create commercial spaces for restaurants, eateries.
A restaurant is an eaterie. And you're a dope.
OMG! This is so COOL!
I can't wait to live here!
Will they have a billiard room and lounge on the roof?
How about weekly socials for residents with food trucks?
This area was a shit hole just a few years ago.
PEOPLE LIVED HERE YOU PRICK - IT WAS A COMMUNITY OF GOOD PEOPLE THAT PAID THEIR TAXES, SERVED THEIR COUNTRY, AND ONLY WANTED TO LIVE OUT OUR LIVES AND FAMILIES BE IN PEACE.
ITS NOT OUR FAULT THE CITY HAD STUPID POLICES AND WE WERE BETRAYED ACROSS THE BOARD. BY EVERYONE WE PUT OUR TRUST IN. THANKS - YOU WILL GET YOUR PAYBACK SOONER THAN YOU EXPECT.
THIS WILL BLOW UP IN YOUR FACES. MARK MY WORD. NO ONE WANT TO LIVE IN THAT NOISY POLLUTED MESS YOU MADE. YOU WILL SEE.
I myself live and work in Queens and cant imagine making a commute to the City.
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You for real? Do you go to borough hall briefings on a date, and take the folks to see ethnic festivals in Queens?
aaaaargh!!!!
I've consistently maintained that LIC is an excellent area within the city for commercial development. The city as a whole exacerbates all its own transit issues because it's so preposterously reliant on hub-and-spoke instead of beltways and nodes of commercial space. Everyone comes into Manhattan, everyone goes out. Transit cannot keep up already and the problem is going to get worse. Distributing the commute is the only way to fix this other than reduce the population by millions or dig more tunnels, both of which are far more costly than redevelopment. LIC definitely does not need ANY more residential, but as much as it stings the community I hope they can take the bullet on commercial for the good of the city as a whole.
-somethingstructural
10 pounds of crap in a 5 pound bag!!!
How much money is REBNY stooge...anti labor union Van Bramer making off of this ?
Don't believe that baloney that Jimmy is pro union. He took $10,500 chump change from the Wolkoff family then voted to approve a variance which allows Wolkoff to build two 40 story mega buildings at the former 5 Pointz site. Jerry Wolkoff is using NON UNION labor. It was Van Bramer who brokered the deal.
Go ahead keep building while our roads and buses and subways get more and more filled. We do not have enough public facilities and infrastructures to keep up with these developments. I'll be glad when I move away.
"I myself live and work in Queens and cant imagine making a commute to the City."
What I meant to say is I would hate to commute on a daily basis for employment. The transit system is overly burden and can not handle the increased ridership. Have you been on a train at rush hour ? It's a dreadful experience to be packed like sardines Monday to Friday !
"I myself live and work in Queens and cant imagine making a commute to the City."
What I meant to say is I would hate to commute on a daily basis for employment. The transit system is overly burden and can not handle the increased ridership. Have you been on a train at rush hour ? It's a dreadful experience to be packed like sardines Monday to Friday !
With all the development the QUEENS lines will be like this. Forget about the city.
nitwit.
I'm a nitwit ? Hey buddy I can walk,bike,drive, or take a bus to my job !
I used to live and work in Queens, going from Kew Gardens to LIC via the E train. On a lucky day, the train ride would be about 15 minutes. More realistically, and almost guaranteed during rush hour, the ride would be 40 minutes. There was always "train traffic ahead", meanwhile we were packed in like sardines, trying to avoid panhandlers. I now work in lower Manhattan and the train ride is 55 minutes and equally crowded. On a day like today when the power goes out and everything is backed up, it sucks even more. It would help if more offices would do staggered scheduling and telecommuting.
"Keep them coming. This area was a shit hole just a few years ago. I welcome the new developments. Hopefully it will bring quality jobs to the area so i don't have to commute to the city every morning. I do also hope they create commercial spaces for restaurants, eateries. "
Yes it was a shithole of one type, soon to be a shithole of another type. The quote sounds like the comment of a low level worker in a developers office or local politician's volunteer gofer.
The new hipster haven. Hipsters do not make for stability. They are wage slave , latte sipping doofuses..... Despite their putting on aires to the contrary.
Take a look at some areas of Brooklyn. There is not a living soul over 30 years old. Eateries , restaurants, latte shops (replete with hip barristas) open and close yearly. The population gets changed like underwear. If LIC was a "shithole" ....blame NYC's crooked politicians who kept it that way.
LIC used to have jobs...factory, manufacturing, etc jobs to offer. These PLACES OF EMPLOYMENT (though what most might consider "working class") were successful.
Now ALL of these sites have been converted to yuppie warehouses...LOL....or "luxury" living spaces...if you prefer. LMAO!
Blame the Vallones, the Van Bramers for the so called "old shitty appearance" of LIC.
Queens is a good place to make a living without travelling to Manhattan.
If LIC can bring some good paying jobs back there will many people applying for them.
I see valid points made by something structual to justify more development, definitely on the commercial side, but the other ones clearly are useful idiots for the gentrification industrial complex.
Although this complex is definitely hipshit warehousing, but it could also be used for pied-e-tierres and safety deposit boxes despite what's considered to be the normal market rate for rentals.
"I do also hope they create commercial spaces for restaurants, eateries"
SOUNDS LIKE A DEVELOPER TRYING PASS HIMSELF OFF AS A RESIDENT!!
**THE MOST VALID ARGUMENT FOR THE EXPANSION OF LIC**
I've consistently maintained that LIC is an excellent area within the city for commercial development. The city as a whole exacerbates all its own transit issues because it's so preposterously reliant on hub-and-spoke instead of beltways and nodes of commercial space. Everyone comes into Manhattan, everyone goes out. Transit cannot keep up already and the problem is going to get worse. Distributing the commute is the only way to fix this other than reduce the population by millions or dig more tunnels, both of which are far more costly than redevelopment. LIC definitely does not need ANY more residential, but as much as it stings the community I hope they can take the bullet on commercial for the good of the city as a whole.
-somethingstructural
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