It’s a Christmas Miracle! An actual plan for the long-discussed affordable hoisting!
Related Companies and the Wilpon family’s Sterling Equities filed plans for a pair of large affordable housing projects on land next to Citi Field.
The filing by Queens Development Corp, a joint venture of the firms, calls for two 12-story mixed-use developments at 126-43 and 126-55 39th Avenue in Willets Point.
With 881 affordable apartments between them, the buildings represent the bulk of the 1,100 such units promised when city officials announced in February 2018 a deal for the first phase of the broader redevelopment of the area. (Via The RealDeal.com)
This is Amazin’. I would have bet we’d get a shopping mall, or airport parking, or a casino, or a soccer stadium…but wow, affordable housing!
That makes me wonder about the school and such…
When the Queens Borough Board approved the Willets Point redevelopment last year, the plans called for 1,100 affordable residential units across three buildings, 25,000 square feet of retail, one acre of public space, a 650-seat public elementary school, a 3,000-square-foot community facility and roughly 300 parking spaces. Construction was slated to begin in 2024 on the six-acre lot next to Citi Field, home to the New York Mets.
No updates on any of that. Having met many Mets fans, the reality is there could be a toxic mine with child slave labor being built, but as long as there’s a new sports bar and a casino everyone will be like Oooooh Sports Bar and Casino and ignore the rest….as is usually the case with everything.
That said, I am happy to see the affordable housing might actually happen. Even the Second Avenue Subway eventually opened, right?
