NEW YORK | Willets Point Development (Flushing)

[NYguy]

In addition to this first phase will be a new soccer stadium (from the soccer stadium thread)…




https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/15/n...c-willets.html

[MAC123]

That stadium is obviously a place holder. I wonder what the design will be? So excited. Also hopefully some of that horrendous parking lot for Citi field is used for something else. Maybe more entertainment destinations? Not just stadiums but all kinds of different stuff.

Maybe if they win that casino bid as well. Go kart racing? Laser tag? Movie theaters (though those aren't that popular these days). Maybe a park running throughout. Just ideas running wild in my head.

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by MAC123

That stadium is obviously a place holder. I wonder what the design will be? So excited. Also hopefully some of that horrendous parking lot for Citi field is used for something else. Maybe more entertainment destinations? Not just stadiums but all kinds of different stuff.

Maybe if they win that casino bid as well. Go kart racing? Laser tag? Movie theaters (though those aren't that popular these days). Maybe a park running throughout. Just ideas running wild in my head.

That parking lot was the site of a proposed large shopping mall by Related, but was objected to by locals because it’s technically parkland. They love the parking lot as is.

https://www.ny1.com/nyc/queens/news/...longer-proceed

[mrnyc]

from the other day and yeah probably the worst dirty window 7 train pic ever lol, but at least you can get an idea of the enormity of this development --

[NYguy]

It's time to bring some life to that area.

[mrnyc]

100% affordable housing — now that is impressively terrific.

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by mrnyc

100% affordable housing — now that is impressively terrific.

The City needs more of it where possible. The state needs to remove that FAR limit ASAP. I know they are looking to jump from a 12 to 15, a 20% increase. But I think that's too timid. There is a shortage of housing in the city, and they need to do everything they can to make building more housing both possible and attractive for developers. And there's no earthly reason why NYC should have the same maximum housing density as some small town upstate. Just ridiculous.

One other thing is, there could have been a lot more housing in Willets Point, had they decided to put the soccer stadium on the opposite side of Citi Field where Cohen wants to put a casino. You would have had better luck with that, with the bonus of using the current site for more housing. But, I'm not in charge of things.

[Busy Bee]

Originally Posted by NYguy

The City needs more of it where possible. The state needs to remove that FAR limit ASAP. I know they are looking to jump from a 12 to 15, a 20% increase. But I think that's too timid. There is a shortage of housing in the city, and they need to do everything they can to make building more housing both possible and attractive for developers. And there's no earthly reason why NYC should have the same maximum housing density as some small town upstate. Just ridiculous.

Yes.

One other thing is, there could have been a lot more housing in Willets Point, had they decided to put the soccer stadium on the opposite side of Citi Field where Cohen wants to put a casino. You would have had better luck with that, with the bonus of using the current site for more housing. But, I'm not in charge of things.

Or even better parked next to the house that Ruth built in the Bronx but whatever...

[mrnyc]

^ i can’t think of a place where any FAR at all makes less sense than here.

the only limits should be via the faa.

and yes cohen’s yet indeterminant casino dream has rather mucked up planning.

it should be a tabla rasa, but we always have these obstructions to deal with.

[mrnyc]

went to see muh guards schweep the metsies today — and wow are they going at it on the affordable housing in the old iron triangle next to the ballpark —













you can see a lot more is going on in the foreground behind the signage in the ballpark —

[NYguy]

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