Develop Willets Point

Here’s a new, beautiful rendering of 126th Street from the NYCEDC:

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From a NYCEDC press release:
The New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) today announced that it has signed another property acquisition and relocation agreement with a business with which it had been negotiating at Willets Point, Queens.  The deal is the fourth such agreement in recent months as the City proceeds through the Uniformed Land [...]

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In case you were looking for some follow up on the hearing at the Queens Borough President’s Office, you can get a pretty good idea of what the meeting was like by heading over to the Queens Ledger and the Queens Tribune.
I wish I could have been there, but it definitely sounds like there was [...]

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I missed this the other day, but as a reader was kind enough to point out, the city was able to make its third purchase of land in Willets Point.
The good news just keeps coming in…

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In another sign that things are looking good for the Willets Point development project, the Land Use committee of Queens Community Board 7 passed a motion approving the development plan for Willets Point.  Curbed has some details on the happenings at the meeting.
Despite some concerns that were expressed at the meeting, which drew a decent [...]

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Mayor Bloomberg announced today that the City of New York had made its first purchases of land in Willets Point, according to a report from Crain’s New York.
From Crain’s:
The Economic Development Corporation signed contracts with Sambucci Bros. Inc. Auto Salvage for two parcels totaling 52,000 square feet of land and BRD Corp. for three parcels [...]

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