Develop Willets Point

The WPIRA is organizing a protest of the city’s development plan to take place at 3:15 today.  There’s going to be a press conference with Councilman Monserrate followed by some trucks circling Shea Stadium “informing Mets fans of the city’s attempt to use eminent domain to take private property and turn it over to a [...]

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Crain’s is now reporting that things are back on track for the relocation of Sambucci Bros.
From the article:
“Everything is settled,” said Danny Sambucci Jr., whose father opened the auto parts yard nearly 60 years ago. “They resolved everything. We have no problems.”
Sounds like the information from the NYCEDC and readers of the site was dead [...]

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One of the largest deals made by the city thus far is at risk of falling apart, according to Crain’s. The EDC is set to relocate Sambucci Bros., an auto salvage business with a large piece of property in Willets Point, to College Point Industrial Park. The only issue is that the [...]

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As expected, Queens Borough President Helen Marshall released her report on the Willets Point plan and issued her approval.
She did list some conditions in the report, mainly including affordable housing, making every effort to avoid eminent domain, and guaranteeing a convention center.
More on this to come this evening, but this is great!

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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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