Forest Hills Post
Plans have been filed for a 21-story, 261-unit apartment building in Rego Park on a vacant lot next to the now-shuttered Our Lady of the Angelus Catholic Academy.
The plans, filed Aug. 6, call for a 143 feet tall building at 98-10 63rd Rd. that will include about 177,000 square feet designated for apartments, with the average unit measuring at about 675 square feet. The development will include 19,000 square feet for community facilities and 156 enclosed parking spaces.
The site was the former soccer field used by the academy. It is one block from the Rego Center Mall and a 5-minute walk to the 63 Drive-Rego Park subway station, serviced by the M and R trains.
Kenney Liu, a Flushing-based developer, is listed as the owner. He bought the lot from the Church of
Our Lady of the Angelus for $30 million in January, according to City records.
13 comments:
Here we go another Catholic church fucks us again.
30 Million dollars and the diocese still passes collection plates and has kids running around selling candy and begging for money.
This mob of crooks and perverts wont get another cent from me!!!
PS: I was a Catholic -WAS
Is this developer even living in the usa? I love how we sell our land to overseas investors just so they can make crap. The Barclay's center is the next crap to be redeveloped into some housing probably for more of Asia to come and live here. New york will never be the same. I gave up with New York shitty a long time ago and now happily live all the way out in suffolk county where things look halfway normal for now.
at 675 sf and all that "community facility" space you're probably looking at "supported living" - aka Willowbrook/Creedmore-style housing.
"just so they can make crap"
just so they can make money (U.S. money).
Chinese economy is not as good as many think. Owning a money making development in a stable economy like the U.S. is a smart investment.
Not saying I like it, but it is a reality.
"Halfway normal for now." You didn't move far enough.
Look this is a failure of political leadership in Queens - they make it so they are the only game in town and have an opinion on EVERYTHING except the things we are interested in like over development and the loss of green spaces like this. But boy oh boy every sexual deviance and obscure ethic group (read potential voting block) is covered ab nausium.
You have to admit that the public has to share in the blame with their abject failure understand the duties and rights of citizenship - which is not to keep their mouths shut and say "whattayagonado" so they can get funding for a tug-of-war event whose purpose is simply to grace a pol's newsletter with public money.
That $30 million goes to the Brooklyn Diocese which then has to kick up a huge percentage to Rome.
The Catholic church is run like the mafia, the lower echelon kicks in money to the parish, a lot of the money goes to the diocese and a lot of that goes to the Holy See.
The motto of the church, "Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme and gimme some more. And keep your mouth shut you lowlife suckers."
As other commentators have already said, you can't have a buyer buy without a seller willing to SELL.
"Plans have been filed for a 21-story, 261-unit apartment building in Rego Park on a vacant lot next to the now-shuttered Our Lady of the Angelus Catholic Academy."
"ON A VACANT LOT NEXT TO THE NOW-SHUTTERED"
"ON A VACANT LOT"
Boohoo. Nobody is entitled to seeing an empty lot stay empty in NYC, which is about as much of an egregious waste of resource as burning money or shitting in water.
Why are we crying over an EMPTY LOT being built on? Something BETTER could've been built there yes...but where were the All-American Rego-Park-ians ponying up the money to do so? Hmm..NOWHERE. SO THIS IS WHAT YOU GET.
The Sino-ization of Queens and NYC continues.
Is this a part of The New Green Deal ?
Jusy saying...
Falasheng v2.0.
1.0 ran out of space.
As other commentators have already said, you can't have a buyer buy without a seller willing to SELL.
Oh common Tommy. Tax breaks, incentives, plain old corruption, new taxes - a bit more complicated to get permits if not in the team.
Catholic Church...sick f _ _k city...they need $ to pay for all the baby rapers.
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