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https://www.crainsnewyork.com/politics-p...-long-island-city-sites-once-eyed-amazon
City moves to redevelop Long Island City sites once eyed for Amazon’s HQ2
Nick Garber
Feb 5, 2025
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A trio of city-owned sites on the Long Island City waterfront, once slated as the epicenter of Amazon’s ill-fated New York City headquarters, may finally be redeveloped as part of Mayor Eric Adams administration’s plan to rezone the neighborhood.
The Adams administration plans to release a request for expressions of interest for the huge 672,000 square-foot warehouse at 44-36 Vernon Blvd., long occupied by the Department of Education.
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Now, as the city pursues a rezoning of the entire neighborhood in hopes of creating some 14,000 homes, officials are taking a closer look at the DOE building — along with two adjacent city-owned parking lots controlled by the Transportation and Small Business Services departments. All three sites sit near the Anable Basin inlet and were within the area where Amazon once planned to build its corporate headquarters.
Although the RFEI does not apply to the two adjacent parking lots, Won and the Adams administration asked residents for ideas about those sites during a workshop on Jan. 25.
Those sites have a long history. Before Amazon began eyeing the area, the developer TF Cornerstone won a city RFP to build a 1.5 million-square-foot, 1,000-unit mixed-use project on the same two lots. But the project never materialized, and Won told Crain’s that the developer’s control over the sites was terminated as part of the new rezoning process.
...The broader Long Island City rezoning will span from the Dutch Kills area north of the Queensboro Bridge down to the Hunters Point waterfront. In a draft plan released in June, the city proposed allowing new high-rise housing along the waterfront and further east near Court Square, as well as high- and medium-density, mixed-use development on several blocks north of the bridge.
The plan takes aim at a largely industrial set of blocks intermingled among the office and apartment towers that have sprouted up in recent years thanks to previous rezonings.
The city aims to kick off its seven-month review this spring, culminating in a City Council vote later this year.
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