NEW YORK | 28 on 28th (42-12 28th Street) | 647 FT | 58 FLOORS

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by Eveningsong

Where did those images come from? They do seem very similar to the renderings.

Just some school project, looks like.


The tower will rise on the left side of these photos...


(April 6, 2014)

[NYguy]

http://theelectricwebnetwork.blogspo...-brooklyn.html

Tallest Residential Tower Outside Manhattan to Rise in L.I.C.





June 23, 2014

Excavation is underway in Long Island City for what will soon become the city’s tallest residential building outside of Manhattan. Heatherwood Communities is building a 58-story skyscraper at 42-12 28th Street that will rise 646 feet and 8 inches to its pinnacle, making it significantly taller than any existing residential high-rise. The tower will contain 477 apartments with a pool, a gym, roof terraces, bike storage, underground parking and a small amount of ground floor retail space.

Indeed, at 646 feet, the skyscraper will become the tallest apartment building in either Brooklyn or Queens, and will stand a mere twelve feet shy of the monolithic One Court Square, which has dominated the Court Square skyline for over two decades, and 56 feet taller than Brooklyn's tallest building, 388 Bridge Street, which was completed last year.

With 477 units, 42-12 28th Street will also add a significant number of new residents to the burgeoning Court Square neighborhood, which is seeing a surge in development. Next-door,

Heatherwood recently completed 42-17 27th Street, branded 27 on 27th, which has 142 units.

In terms of square footage, the building will have 5,878 square feet of retail, and 392,824 square feet of residential space. Amenities will include a third-floor pool, gym, roof terraces on the 45th and 58th floors, bike storage, and underground parking.

The aesthetic is simple and glassy, typical of new developments in Long Island City, though zigzagging lines of a white material break up the facade’s monotony.

Above anything else, 42-12 28th Street’s defining characteristic will be its looming height, which will distinguish the structure from neighboring high-rises.

Given its scope and height, 42-12 28th Street will make a significant positive impact on the neighborhood and its skyline, helping the push towards the creation of a livable and walkable neighborhood in Court Square.

Designed by the architecture firm of Goldstein and Hill & West, the project is expected to be completed in June of 2017.

Once upon a time, Long Island City was a hotbed of industry, but over the last decade, it's become a hotbed for residential development, thanks to rezoning. Since then, roughly 5,000 units have been added to a 37 block area that encompasses the LIC neighborhoods of Court Square and Queens Plaza.

Rockrose is another major participant in the area’s renaissance, and The Linc LIC — a 790-unit tower which was recently completed — will soon be joined by another skyscraper at 10 Court Square.

Height-wise, 10 Court Square will still play second-fiddle to 42-12 28th Street, as the former will only stand 50 stories and 509 feet.

Many more projects are still in the planning stages.

The race upwards is just beginning in Long Island City, and the momentum in Court Square is going to become apparent as the skyline will be completely transformed over the course of the next few years.

From warehouse conversions to the tallest residential building in Queens, there is a lot on the rise in Long Island City.

[chris08876]

This is nice. Exactly what the city needs. Height outside of Manhattan. I'm liking this trend. LIC and DoBro are like expansions of Midtown and LoMa.

The only thing I'm wondering are the subways and how they will handle the extra volume. This will be the first of many projects for LIC starting this year. Those Queen to Manhattan bound trains are already extremely overcrowded. I wonder when NYC will start to bring those subway pushers like in Tokyo.

[babybackribs2314]

That article blatantly plagiarizes the two things I've written on this project.

http://www.yimbynews.com/category/42-12-28th-street

[hunser]

Originally Posted by babybackribs2314

That article blatantly plagiarizes the two things I've written on this project.

http://www.yimbynews.com/category/42-12-28th-street

Plagiarism is one of the best compliments one can receive. Btw pity this one is not over 200m, it's so damn close.

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by chris08876

The only thing I'm wondering are the subways and how they will handle the extra volume. This will be the first of many projects for LIC starting this year. Those Queen to Manhattan bound trains are already extremely overcrowded.

Subways in New York are going to be crowded, regardless. We can't just stop building because of it though.

Originally Posted by babybackribs2314

That article blatantly plagiarizes the two things I've written on this project.

http://www.yimbynews.com/category/42-12-28th-street

Not this part I hope...

Special thanks to Nikolai Fedak of New York YIMBY for the information in this article.

[fleonzo]

I just sold an apt at the Echelon on Jackson but still have another one at the City Lights Building on 48th Ave! Great area to live and be at in NYC! There's no question there's been a lot of developments but I am not looking to buy anything else until the next recession casue things in LIC (like most of NYC) has gotten way ahead of itself and pricing is too frothy!

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by fleonzo

Great area to live and be at in NYC!

And it didn't just happen "just because". The city had a hand in reshaping the area, just as it has on the west side of Manhattan.



http://www.timesledger.com/stories/2...4_05_23_q.html

Long Island City transformed


By Bill Parry
June 25, 2014

These days Long Island City is referred to as “The Jewel of the Borough” and “The Gateway to Queens” with its beautiful waterfront parks and gleaming residential towers.

Years ago it was a very different place, however.

“It was all factories,” lifelong resident Frank Carrado said. “We had a lot of pollution because of them. You could walk across the East River because there was so much sludge and garbage and the stench was so bad that we prayed that the wind would blow it over Brooklyn.”

The 84-year-old noticed things changing soon after 2000.

“That’s when all the factories started coming down, the old Pepsi Factory and Admiral TV, they all came down and these high-rise apartment buildings started going up,” Carrado said.

The Department of City Planning identified Long Island City as a “growth area with significant potential for office, retail and residential development” in 2001. The City Council followed with the rezoning of 37 centrally located blocks to foster reinvestment and redevelopment to take advantage of excellent mass transit and its large supply of large underdeveloped properties.

A boomtown was born.

Gayle Baron had a front row seat 15 years ago at the LIC Business Development Corporation before it was rebranded as the LIC Partnership in 2010.

“Right at the start you’d walk through Queens Plaza and see broken sidewalks, graffiti-covered buildings and prostitutes,” she said..

“Carolyn Maloney, then Borough President Helen Marshall and Amanda Burden of City Planning all knew that we had to clean it up before you could lure developers,” Baron said. “We needed capital funding from the city, but it was all going to Brooklyn. Maloney was the one who started putting coins in the piggy bank.”


U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney said, “With my colleagues at other levels of government, and the support of the community, I have helped secure or advocated for funding for parks, healthcare, affordable housing, infrastructure and transportation projects, and innovative economic development programs. All of this and more has helped beautify Long Island City. Without this partnership and these investments, Long Island City might not be what it is today: the fourth largest business district in New York; the largest in Queens and, quite frankly, a pretty great place to work, live and play.”

The real estate developers followed. TF Cornerstone began building the East Coast development project on the waterfront where the Pepsi factory once stood on Center Boulevard. The sixth and final building started renting earlier this spring. The community has 2,100 units. TF Cornerstone went to work on the colossal 5,000 unit Hunters Points South project, where it won the Phase 2 contract and will build 1,193 apartments. With the waterfront filling up, other developers turned their eyes to other sections of Long Island City.

Rockrose Development Corporation has plans for four major residential projects in Court Square, including the tallest residential building in Queens at 43-25 Hunter St. that will rise 50 stories with 975-units.

The $1 billion Court Square project will change the neighborhood from industrial to residential (because of so many residential properties going up). Rockrose President Justin Elghanayan also envisions a retail and entertainment hub to support the new residential community and take advantage of the area’s seven subway lines that are within walking distance.

“We’re going to see what retailers come to us,” Elghanayan said. “We want that to be organic, people that want to be here. As the population grows, the retail will as well.”

David Brause, the president of Brause Realty who played a pivotal role in bringing Met Life and JetBlue to the Brewster Building on Queens Plaza North said, “What a great time to be in LIC real estate with 8,000 units planned between Court Square and Queens Plaza in addition to thousands more on the waterfront. There are 23 hotels with eight more under construction. Industrial warehouses don’t have to be torn down, they can be repurposed for office space for media and tech companies. Gritty is good. People don’t want sanitized neighborhoods anymore.”

One of the great success stories is that of Modern Spaces, the real estate company that has captured a grand total of 70 percent of the market share of residential units, both condo and rentals, according to co-founder Eric Benaim. in Long Island City.

“I could see it happening when we got here in 2005. When Rockrose and Cornerstone started building, I knew it was real,” he said. “Ted Kokkoris and I opened in a ground floor apartment because there were no storefronts available at that time. Now we have five locations and 70 agents.”

Baron, who retired as president of the LIC Partnership last year, looked back at the sequence of events and said, “It didn’t happen overnight, it was a slow steady progression all those many years, but it was exhilarating, no question about it. It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and it’s wonderful to see it now.

[babybackribs2314]

Originally Posted by NYguy

Subways in New York are going to be crowded, regardless. We can't just stop building because of it though.






Not this part I hope...

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[NYguy]

Originally Posted by babybackribs2314

Post e-mail

Well, stay vigilant. The more people use your blog as a source of info, the more people will use it as a source of info. It's the media way, it cannibalizes off itself.

[NYguy]

http://blurealtygroup.com/listings/s...street-2a/2596

[colemonkee]

So this tower is actually under way?

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by colemonkee

So this tower is actually under way?

Yes, though not quite at construction status yet.

[quantj]

Some new models

The tallest residential building in the outer boroughs is underway, and no, it’s not going to be in boomtown Brooklyn, but rather along the rapidly evolving corridor of Queens Plaza in Long Island City. 42-12 28th Street will soar 57 stories from an 18,000-square-foot lot and will contain 447 luxury rental units. At its 635-foot projected height, it will be just 20 feet shy of the current outer borough tallest, One Court Square (the “Citi” building).

http://www.6sqft.com/long-island-cit...-of-manhattan/

[Hypothalamus]

Multiple dozens of mid- and high-rise buildings are missing in Court Square, let alone others in LIC and the East River waterfront.

[chris08876]

This area is red hot for development. Expect many more tall towers like this to sprout within its vicinity.

[sparkling]

[QUOTE]Work is progressing on 42-12 28th Street in Long Island City, and even though this very tall, very glassy tower looks pretty much just like every other new apartment tower, it holds a special distinction: at 635 feet, it will be the tallest apartment building in Queens. (If it was built really, really fast, it could also take the title of tallest residential building in all of the outer boroughs, but considering that the 775-foot Avalon Willoughby West is already on the rise in Downtown Brooklyn, that is doubtful.) Architects Goldstein, Hill & West released some new renderings of the 447-unit rental tower (h/t 6sqft), showing the amenity deck with an outdoor pool and the entrance. It's being developed by Heatherwood Communities, and it should open in June 2017.


http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/1...medium=twitter

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by Hypothalamus

Multiple dozens of mid- and high-rise buildings are missing in Court Square, let alone others in LIC and the East River waterfront.

I rarely see a rendering that doesn't have multiple towers missing.

This particular rendering (even with the wrong Silvercup design) gives you insight into location as it relates to the surrounding area and the overall skyline.


cityrealty_nyc

[Jonovision]

What is that big proposed building that looks like its built in the river?

[sparkling]

Originally Posted by Jonovision

What is that big proposed building that looks like its built in the river?

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ight=silvercup