City officials, elected leaders, developers and community members gathered at the location of a formerly vacant illegal dumping ground on Beach 44th Street Wednesday to cut the ribbon at the new 35-acre Arverne East Nature Preserve and Welcome Center along the Rockaway waterfront in Edgemere.
he preserve represents phase one of an ambitious Arverne East development project, which will transform more than 100 acres of underutilized space between Beach 32nd Street and Beach 56th Place into 1,650 units of housing — 80% of which will be affordable, serving low-income and middle-income individuals and families — in addition to retail and community space, a hotel and a tap room and brewery.
“The Rockaway renaissance takes another historic step forward,” Queens Borough President Donovan Richards said. “What was once a vacant, overgrown illegal dumping ground for decades is now a stunning hub of wildlife and a successful example of what community-centered sustainability looks like. I could not be prouder of this project or of the Arverne East development as a whole, which represents transformational change for a community that had previously been ignored for generations.”
Richards added that future generations would benefit from resources he never had while growing up at the nearby Ocean Villages apartments staring at the blighted oceanfront parcel of land. Assemblymember Khaleel Anderson, who grew up in Far Rockaway, said he looks forward to the completion of the preserve and called the Arverne East development a once-in-a-generation investment.
The community can have affordable housing and environmental sustainability while enjoying local flora and fauna,” Anderson said. “The welcome center will be a fitting centerpiece of this relationship our neighbors will share with the environment. I hope this model of the first net-zero community in New York City will be an example emulated by others.”
7 comments:
My two cents said...
The land should have been sold to private developers.
Think Long Beach West for the tax paying working NYC middle class.
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need"
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Donovan Richards said: "The Rockaway renaissance takes another historic step forward,”
There wouldn't be a need for a renaissance if democrat politicians hadn't fucked it up in the first place. Decades of benign democrat neglect brought the Rockaways to this point. Scumbags
More communism.
This could have been a great site for a shopping mall or a chemical factory.
Manifest Destiny
Let me get this right:
The city creates 40 years of waterfront neglect and blight then tells us handing it all over to private landlords to slop up towers of welfare barracks with a small beer bar to attract useless destitute surfer bums is the only fix?
That's feeding us bullshit and telling us it a meal!
The same shit the city created with the former Luna Park land in Coney Island now over 50 years of massive of sec 8 crime and poverty.
This is another Trojan that will in time convey every inch of taxpayer owned beachfront to private corporate ownership.
2-There is no way of handling all the sewage waste such will create, now who's land do they steal "in public interest" to build a water treatment plant and electrical sub stations.
Not enough housing?
Solution:
Stop baiting every lazy useless Hipster, college terrorist, lunatic or baby maker scum on the planet with free stuff. Let socialist Denmark & Belgium take them.
Oh boy has NYC gone to hell in a handbasket!!
I think voters have birdbrain flue, bring in Center or Disease Control ASAP
''No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.''
~Twain
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