QNS
City Councilman and lead candidate for Queens Borough President Donovan Richards announced his support of the Your LIC waterfront development.
The development, a project four private developers are looking to build in the 28-acre land along Anable Basin — made popular due to Amazon’s proposed HQ2 — has garnered much attention throughout what is almost a year of its public visioning sessions.
“As we battle massive inequality across Queens, the Long Island City Waterfront presents a key opportunity to create new jobs, affordable housing and much-needed community facilities,” Richards told QNS. “We need ambitious proposals that will bring significant private and public investment into communities that have long endured disparities based on their socio-economic status.”
Your LIC’s developers, MAG Partners, Plaxall, Simon Baron Development, and TF Cornerstone, were brought together by City Council Speaker Corey Johnson last year in order to create a comprehensive plan with community input well before the ULURP process.
So far, developers have revealed they plan to develop 10 to 12 million square feet of the 28-acre land with up to 15 buildings that range from 400 to 700 feet in height, or 37 to 64 stories. They’ve mentioned seven acres of public open space. The plan also calls for 50 percent of commercial space, 30 percent residential and 13 percent “community” space that would include three new public schools and space for arts and culture.
Developers say they’ve committed to 5,700 total apartments with 25 percent (or 1,400 units) being affordable, which they say will be consistent with the area’s Mandatory Inclusionary Housing metrics. When asked for specific price range for the units, Your LIC Spokesperson Jovanna Rizzo said they did not have those specifics yet.
Then how are we sure these buildings end massive inequality, Donnie? And what about transit and infrastructure?
13 comments:
We desperately need more vacant skyscrapers asap
Donny got a donation...
He is a two-bit hustler and race baiter, just like Sharpton.
Remember when Donovan asked REBNY to cut him a check at one of the debates, right out in the open, like it was nothing?
Wait until the homeless men moved in from dorm-style shelters from around the city !
Mayor Debosio with Steven Banks help will destroy every last good place to live in NYC.
You people are all the same Joe Biden said...
C´MON MANNN New York Demorats like Richards and me will Build Back Better !
That didn't take long........
Hey folks! I'm living out here in the country, away from the riots and most of the COVID-19, which has always been marginal, so far, here. People are leaving NYC by droves, at least those with the money to do it, and your guy is pumping for more empty apartments in Queens. Lots of luck, you're gonna need it.
Moe said...
5 words when you elect these politicians: YOU get what YOU deserved!
Moe said: "5 words when you elect these politicians: YOU get what YOU deserved!"
Those of us who vote but DON'T vote for these crooked politicians do we get what everyone else deserves?
Tammany Hall has never left NYC.
Moe said...
"Do we get what everyone else deserves?" Yes you do !
Democrats ARE Destroying NYC On Purpose, DeBlasio ADMITS He's Buying Up Vacant Properties.
Spending $175 per night per homeless person to put them up in a hotel. That's nearly $64,000 per homeless person per year. That's our tax money. DeBlasio and his friends will then buy up property and have the government pay for the homeless they house in those properties.
Wasn't this area working docks and manufacturing? What happened to that? Weren't there ferrys, tugboats, freighters and ships at this location? That means oil and sludge dumping and means the area is a brown-fields at the least and probably what they call a super fund site - full of toxic cancer causing and other disease causing chemicals. But go ahead and put residential housing on top of it all.
Let the most aggressive immigrant lobby group, like the Chinese move in.
Does anyone want to know what happened to all the working docks?
Which politician did NOT get a handsome donation from developers?
We don't need to keep pushing more density in NYC. There is no human right to live here. If you can't find a place in the 4 boros, you can always commute from Staten Island, CT, NJ, or L.I. as millions of people have done since always.
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