Posted Mar 7, 2014, 4:29 PM
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Just a little bit of the back story on this redevelopment plan...
Earlier images....
The planned merchandise mart on the south end was the centerpiece of the plan...
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/...ticle-1.232145
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October 30, 2007
Plans were unveiled last week for a 929,000-square-foot, $260 million international merchandise mart just south of the AirTrain terminal in Jamaica.
The 13-story complex will rise on the L-shaped site of a long-vacant meat-packing plant on Sutphin Blvd. and 94th Ave.
Calling it a "true international undertaking," the EDC chief said the project is a result of cooperation among Korean-based Prime Construction Co.; a Korean/American entity, HRH AC Development; and several American partners, including Kingsbridge-Jamaica and the Greater Jamaica Development Corp.
Demolition of the existing building - vacant since 1965 - is expected to be complete by the end of December. Construction of the new complex is to begin in the third quarter of 2008 and is scheduled to take approximately three years.
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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/...ticle-1.279867
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April 7, 2008
Major hotel development - including a 16-story Marriott Courtyard with 172 rooms, a 150-room Residence Inn and a third 150-room hotel - is planned for a proposed "airport village" in downtown Jamaica, Queens.
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http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/20...ype=blogs&_r=0
Plans for Merchandise Mart in Queens Are Scuttled
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By TERRY PRISTIN
July 25, 2008
Plans to build a $260 million wholesale merchandise mart cater-corner from the glassy new Air Train station in Jamaica, Queens, have been scuttled because the South Korean co-developer has pulled out of the deal, people involved in the project said on Friday.
Paul Travis, the New York developer who spent two years getting the owner of the site to agree to a long-term lease, declined to comment. But Shane Kavanagh, a spokesman for Mr. Travis’s company, Washington Square Partners, acknowledged that a “the weakening global economy has affected the project.’’
Mr. Travis’s partner, Prime Construction in South Korea, developed Techno-Mart, a shopping center in Seoul that houses 2,000 electronics retailers. The 13-story Jamaica development was to have included 172,000 square feet of retail space and parking for 800 cars. It would have been the company’s first project in the United States.
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