Plans have been filed for what will be the tallest building in Queens upon its completion.
A developer has submitted plans that call for the construction of a 69-story, 818-unit development on Jackson Avenue near Queens Plaza in Long Island City. The building, which has an address of 42-02 Orchard St., will be 794 feet tall and located on Jackson Avenue between Orchard and Queens streets—adjacent to Jackson Park LIC.
The tower will be taller that than the Skyline Tower, a Long Island City skyscraper that was completed in 2021 and currently holds that title at 763 feet. Another tall building to have recently gone up in Long Island City is Sven, a 755 foot tall building by the Clock Tower in Queens Plaza. Sven is currently the second tallest building in Queens.
Prior to these two buildings, One Court Square—formerly the Citigroup building—held the title as the tallest in Queens. It was built in 1990 and is 673 feet tall.
The plans for the 69-story tower were filed last year by developer Lloyd Goldman of BLDG Orchard LLC, although additional details were submitted last month. The initial plans were first reported by YIMBY.
The building will contain 635,000 square feet of residential space, which equates to approximately 776 square feet per apartment.
Meanwhile, the plans call for 11,700 square feet of commercial space.
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I dont understand what commercial space we need here anymore. Most offices are not re-opening and stores are going out of business left and right due to high rents and online shopping. So why more commercial space? The city doesn't make a bit of sense anymore.
The U.S. should put the Ukranians Refugees in these new apartments.
Harris slammed for cackling over question about Ukrainian refugees.
https://nypost.com/2022/03/10/harris-slammed-for-laughing-after-question-about-ukrainian-refugees/
Our new Chinese ruling class needs somewhere to live, don't they? Apparently, they have not yet run out of young Chinese with enough money to live in LIC apartments that range from $2,500 - $6,500 or so. And of course, thanks to the Progressive poh-peeple rules, there will be a smattering of blacks in the building, lending it a fragrant marijuana smell.
It's really pretty remarkable how the supply of Chinese students seems bottomless. Only in America are we stupid enough to give away our extremely valuable top-tier university and medical school seats to foreigners. But alas, such is the case, as America is a nation where money alone matters. So we're in for several more years of clang-bang-shamalang endless noise from construction in LIC. I'm watching one smallish building site now being excavated. They are drilling down into sheer bedrock, and all day long starting at 7 a.m. you hear dat-dat-dat-dat-dat of solid rock being broken up. Well times are good for construction guys, which is nice. Though on the smaller Chinese buildings most of the workers are Chinese imports, so it's doing nothing to give Americans job. But hey, we let that happen too, for reasons I can't understand.
The upside is that Mayor Adams will probably be the last black Mayor of New York, and we'll start having Chinese Mayors pretty soon. Of course, they will be totally corrupt, but they might keep the crime down.
Has anyone done a legitimate study of who uses the enormous amount of tower space in LIC and for what? The overbuilding is beyond belief. Is this really full and active?
Great news for LIC.
Ya gets what yer votes for...
If you don't like glass towers, you ain't black!
@“ But alas, such is the case, as America is a nation where money alone matters. ”
Seems as if NPC_doofus is a commie after all.
"Only in America are we stupid enough to give away our extremely valuable top-tier university and medical school seats to foreigners"
That's the only way to fill those seats with people that are worth the investment and can give the most success in return.
Its you Americans own fault for choosing to get stone, watch sports do hippy marijuana and druga music as your kids went unsupervised in front television or some stupid communist public school teacher.
Now 20-30 years later look at what all you did (including voting) has got you. American kids don't know if they are boy or girl, lazy, stupid, no want to work unless handed instant success and money without earning and proving worth.
Chinese parents do not allow this, its considered shame. Chinese kids must study and go to school, then sometimes extra 2nd school to 6PM, then study more and homework. To time for footballs, TV or text on cellphones. Must be #1 in success, fail is not an option!
Has anybody seen groups of Chinese young adults in prison or rehab for drugs or alcohol ?
You wont !!
Stupid new president says "we will make things in America again" Oh yea, How ?
Surly not with this crop of useless called Millennials, they cant make shoeshine box or fold paper airplane without iphone and youtube.
Yup makes very good points. NYC, if it has any future, will only succeed as a kind if Singapore, multi-ethnic, authoritarian, and run by Chinese. The alternative is Detroit.
The difference is simple math; a big building will pay far more in taxes than a shitty little house or vacant factory.
More R.E. tax =Good for the city.
I’m out there every week on business since early 1990. Back then it was a deserted dump with roaring cars and trucks, mostly empty old commercial buildings and hookers at night. The plaza train stations were considered among the most dangerous in the system.
Three years ago I was skeptical this forest of towers could ever become a neighborhood. I’m still not convinced, but there are signs of some street-level commerce and the apartment buildings do seem at least somewhat occupied.
These developments are all built and financed by companies with access to sophisticated market research. These must be backed up by the financing organizations. If their judgment turns out wrong, it is on them. They’ll eventually be forced to lower prices or repurpose the buildings till they find takers.
For most people in Queens, the Plaza is just a place one passes through, so why get upset over these buildings. It ain’t your money.
Rob in Manhattan
Wow, the ignorance and hatred here is worse than it normally is. What, pray tell, have you lot of losers ever contributed to society, other than bullshit postings on this drab blog?
Wafda ya expect?
LIC isn’t Queens. It’s Manhattan East.
Forget about your olden dayz bucolic past.
Ya don’t like it? Move! You cannot hold back the towers.
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