Friday, February 23, 2018
Western Beef will not become hotel
From the Queens Gazette:
The developer of a massive hotel at the site of a former Western Beef Supermarket in Long Island City has scrapped plans for the project.
The site at the northwest corner of Northern Boulevard and Steinway Street includes the former supermarket property and four adjacent parcels formerly controlled by the food retailer. JMH Development leased the Western Beef supermarket and the four parcels from Western Beef in 2014 for $19.6 million.
Plans for the hotel included 119,722-sauare-feet of commercial space, a bar and a breakfast room on the ground floor of the 60-foot-tall building, along woth14 hotel rooms in the cellar level of the hotel, 28 rooms on the ground floor, 67 room on the second floor, 66 rooms on each of the third and fourth floors, and 49 rooms on the fifth floor, for a total of. 289 rooms.
Plans for the new development feature a six-story rental building with 140 residential units, 40,000-square-feet of retail and an undetermined number of indoor parking spaces.
The developers “re-thought” plans for the hotel and decided to scrap the project due to an overabundance on similar hotels located in Manhattan and Long Island City, according to a spokesperson for JMH Development.
9 comments:
I bet it will be a homeless shelter wait and see -
Righto on the shelter. Just skip the hotel b.s. and go straight to the gravy.
And no one will tell them until the politicians can triangulate it to their benefit.
Homeless shelter for sure!
The developers “re-thought” plans for the hotel and decided to scrap the project due to an overabundance on similar hotels located in Manhattan and Long Island City, according to a spokesperson for JMH Development.
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REALLY, (an overabundance on similar hotels) you FUCKING THINK!!! BUT what has stopped all these asshole hotel developers to begin with. I mean you cannot have enough shitty hotels in Queens, since it is the crowning jewel of New York City.
That is excellent news but the area still needs other options when it comes to groceries. They should build an ALDI's supermarket.
What "Area"?
WTF Major Chevrolet? The Railyards?
In the old days you used to take a shopping cart and go to a dozen specialty stores.
Now its one gin mill after another. What has that done for the community outside of enriching landlords and their twins the politicians?
Remember children, the developer is your friend ;-)
"In the old days you used to take a shopping cart and go to a dozen specialty stores."
No problem - you can to what they do in Europe - take your bike in cold slushy rain and spend 30 minutes just to GET to one store to do your shopping and then try to fit everything into your bike basket.
But really, you do not need stores within walking distance, nor do you need a car with all those wonderful dining experiences - 4 or 5 to a block! - featuring exotic menus that made the Third World look so healthy with clean kitchens like the 3rd world meal prep staff left back home. The cost? Take in 3 or 4 to share the rent and ask the family to cover you those expenses that for some strange reason always exceed your income.
All fine if you are from the mid-west and was raised on Red Lobster, and don't know better I guess.
Well if someone wants to live on northern blvd, more power to them...I bet this becomes a homeless shelter. Either that or another overpriced residential building for the yoga pants wearing set and the beardos from the fly over states who all of the sudden have "discovered" Queens and are intent on making it the next Williamsburg
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