Whilst whistling down 60th Street in Maspeth one day, I came across this behemoth of a building. This site was
featured on the blog 6 years ago when the church next to it was selling the property.
All was quiet at the site, and this is why.
No drawings, eh? Hmmm... Well what is it that is proposed for the property, which is pretty out of scale with the rest of the streetscape?
13,624 square feet of community space? What exactly is being built?
A day care center for 228 kids? Seems a bit unrealistic. After all, this
nearby building on Flushing Ave was supposedly built to be a day care center years ago but a day care center didn't happen.
An old developer trick is to include a community facility in the building in order to be granted the right to build a bigger building. Then when it's complete and they can't find an appropriate tenant for a space, they change it over to residences or offices which would have had to be built smaller without the loophole. I don't know if that's what's at play here, but it's an odd location for a large day care center.
