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Idk who else would go for 1M sf in Queens, especially after that debacle.
Even if this made sense, it wouldn't be true. Just silly.
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Right, office space in the city isn't leased based on one's politics. Whatever amount of office space is approved here will be phased in. And whatever corporation decides to take it will get whatever benefits Amazon was going to get from the City because it's not in Manhattan.
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Developers detail vision for site once targeted for Amazon HQ2


RYAN DEFFENBAUGH
June 30, 2020


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A group of developers says it can build a new neighborhood hub with workspaces and public plazas on the 28-acre Long Island City site once targeted and then abandoned by Amazon.

The developers will have to win over a skeptical neighborhood that fears any rezoning plan, similar to that in the case of Amazon, will displace residents.

Against that backdrop, the coalition of private developers detailed its goals in seeking a rezoning for the site through a report released Tuesday. The group, called YourLIC, launched last year at the City Council's urging.
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"We've heard the need for job creation, particularly in a part of Long Island City adjacent to one of the largest public housing communities in the country," said Eleonora Bershadskaya, a senior associate at TF Cornerstone. "We've heard the need for abundant public open space. And we've heard again and again that this needs to be a 24/7 vibrant place."

TF Cornerstone previously was set to develop two city-owned parcels for Amazon. It is now helping lead the YourLIC process. Plaxall, which owns several acres in the Anable Basin development site, is a member of the coalition. Developers MAG Partners and Simon Baron are guiding the effort as well.

The group hopes to pursue a rezoning of the 28-acre area by next year, allowing for up to 12 million square feet of construction for commercial space, with at least half of which would be office or nonresidential use, such as a workforce development center. About 7 acres would be reserved for public space, including a new half-acre plaza on the waterfront.
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Earlier this month a Western Queens community group called the Justice for All Coalition wrote to Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, a leading Amazon critic, asking him to publicly oppose any rezoning of the site.

"This type of luxury mixed-use development in former manufacturing zones does not provide good quality jobs to those who need them most —in this case, residents of Queensbridge houses, just blocks away," the group's letter reads.
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The outreach process has helped win some support in the community. A group of four tenant association leaders in Queens wrote in a Gotham Gazette op-ed last week that Queens "can’t afford to squander yet another opportunity to create jobs and to deliver progress."

But others say the city needs a planning process that operates independently of property developers.

"In terms of developing our neighborhoods—where we live, work and play—the process should begin with a genuine assessment of what the community needs," said Kristen Hackett, an executive committee member with the Justice For All Coalition. "It should be led by the community, who rely on this place for their well-being."

Van Bramer did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the potential rezoning.
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The process for rezoning, known as the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, is on hold because of Covid-19 pandemic.

A City Hall spokesman told the New York Post on Monday that land-use reviews are unlikely to resume until later this summer at the earliest.




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NYCHA Tenant Leaders: Where Amazon Never Arrived, New Opportunity Arises





June 25, 2020
by Carol Wilkins, April Simpson-Taylor, Claudia Coger & Annie Cotton-Morris


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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has not been equitable across New York City. While some New Yorkers have been able to work from home, or leave the city temporarily to wait the pandemic out, our NYCHA family has been devastated with the astounding loss of life and by an economic collapse at a scale we have never experienced before.

We have seen many people speak out about how to help NYCHA recover from this pandemic. On behalf of the nearly 17,000 residents of four Western Queens public housing developments, the virus has been catastrophic for our neighbors and the number one thing we will need coming out of this unprecedented time is jobs.

Thousands of our neighbors have lost their jobs and income, and we are ready to help New York City get back to work. NYCHA is the bedrock of Long Island City and the permanency of our homes provides an opportunity to access our residents for job opportunities. But we need the access, and we need to kickstart the creation of new opportunities to make up for the jobs that have been lost and may never return.
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We recently sat down with local Queens and citywide leaders in the workforce development community, convened by four developers (MAG Partners, Plaxall, Simon Baron Development, and TF Cornerstone) pursuing the Your LIC process to create a comprehensive plan for the Long Island City waterfront that is anchored with a strong jobs and commercial district.

We talked about an integrated, place-based workforce development plan that benefits the existing local workforce, including a community center that can connect all of Long Island City, flexible job training, pathways for high school students to find internships, services including childcare for families, and opportunities to strengthen soft skills.
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Of course, we’re no stranger to fighting for the future of our community. Leading up to Amazon’s decision to pull their plans for ‘HQ2,’ we were making progress to ensure that the deal would work for all of us. This neighborhood was prepared to receive a job-training center, the launch of a workforce development program with LaGuardia Community College, modern after-school programs, and internships for our children.

For months following Amazon’s decision to pull out, we felt forgotten and it appeared that our goal of creating a Long Island City waterfront that would empower our community and create a significant number of jobs was lost.

Then last year, a new process emerged.
The proponents of this new project began organizing a series of public engagements to hear firsthand what Long Island City residents want to see along the waterfront. Since the very beginning of the process, NYCHA residents have had a seat at the table, with hundreds from the community participating in the public workshops and online discussions. Our voices are finally being heard and we are continuing to meet with members of the Your LIC team to make sure that the proposal is one that works for all of us.
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We know that the buildings proposed on the waterfront may be tall and dense, and some people will have concerns about that, but we’ve been seeing towers rise in Long Island City for a long time. In those developments, residents come and go, but the residents in NYCHA developments in Western Queens are permanent, and it’s time for a proposal that benefits and draws from the human capital in our communities.

The need to deliver jobs – here in Western Queens – and community benefits are more critical than ever for the future of this place. These are the types of tools and investments that make a real difference in people’s lives and will do so for our children, too.

As we look forward to planning for the future of the Long Island City waterfront – and toward the future of our city as a whole – we can’t afford to squander yet another opportunity to create jobs and to deliver progress right here in a community that both needs it and deserves it.

When crises hit New York City, so many turn to NYCHA to lament how public housing residents are disproportionately impacted, but when given the opportunity too little action is taken. This is our community. Please don’t forget us once again. Support us as we build a strong future for NYCHA and our neighbors.
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Density, affordable housing top LIC talk
Your LIC envisions dense but mixed use when Anable Basin is rebuilt






by Michael Gannon, Editor
Jul 2, 2020


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The fifth community meeting hosted by those seeking to redevelop the Long Island City Waterfront in and around Anable Basin was geared toward discussing building and population density, and just how to strike the right balance building heights, percentages of housing, business and public space to keep and attract residents and jobs.

But many of the public’s thoughts and questions came down to affordable housing, and just what the definition of that would be.

Nearly 200 people joined the Zoom discussion hosted Tuesday by Your LIC, the consortium made up of Simon Baron Development, MAG Partners, TF Cornerstone and Plaxall, which collectively own or manage the 28 acres in the redevelopment plan.
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They joined forces at the city’s behest after Amazon pulled out of a $27 billion agreement to expand into Queens due to political opposition in February 2019.

One rendering offered a color-coded projection of buildings that would set aside 3.2 million square feet for residential use, or 30 percent. A second showed buildings from 295 feet to 730 feet in height.

“Density is misunderstood,” said Gregg Pasquarelli of SHoP Architects. “It’s about supply and demand. It creates the revenues used to pay for schools, hospitals and parks.”


He also said it makes communities more resistant to the recent economic and pandemic-related upheavals, and results in less displacement than communities with more height regulations and zoning restrictions.

“Density increases opportunities,” he said. “[It] supports mass transit and infrastructure. It creates a demand for public space but also the market.”
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Rebecca Karp of Karp Strategies said with the proper planning, a mixed-use community can bring in an eclectic mix of businesses and create jobs for residents of various skill levels, which she said also fosters parks, hotels, restaurants and other uses.

“They’re certainly not gated office parks,” Karp said of similar developments in major cities in recent years in places such as Boston, San Francisco and London. “They are integrated into the neighborhoods.”

Going into breakout groups, several attendees on the conference call had concerns. Spencer Heckwolf said a lot has changed since the earlier meetings in pre-COVID-19 times, lending itself to greater emphasis on housing.

“New York presently has a housing shortage, not a jobs shortage,” he said. “There’s uncertainty over how office space will be used. You can live and work from home. You can just work at the office.”

As for affordable housing, Maeve Ives, a vice president at Simon Baron, said 25 percent of the proposed 5,700 housing units — about 1,400 — would be affordable under the city’s mandatory inclusionary housing regulations.

But she also said definitions and dollar figures would be based on area median income levels as stipulated by the federal government.

“That would have to be figured out through the [uniform land use review procedure] process,” she said.

One resident said that gives him a major cause for concern.

“You mentioned Hudson Yards,” he said. “Most of the jobs in Hudson Yards are retail. No retail worker in Hudson Yards can afford an apartment there.”
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A participant named Ryan, who said he is a light manufacturer in LIC, said his vendors and retail in general are already being priced out.

“I don’t think these apartments will be affordable for anyone making less than $70,000 a year,” he said.

A handful of residents expressed fears over building up in an area that already has flooding problems and is subject to storm surges in events such as hurricanes Sand and Irene in the last decade.

But Pasquarelli and Dana Getman, also of SHoP Architects, both said in separate sessions that the plans call for designing the waterfront itself, the slope and composition of the land and green spaces and modern technology to protect not only any new development but its neighbors.

“It would act as a buffer for the neighborhoods to the east of the site,” Getman said.

Addressing another environmental concern raised earlier in the meeting, Pasquarelli said taller buildings — and the green technology they intend to employ — leave a smaller carbon footprint.
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July 07, 2020


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Five days after denouncing a major Astoria development plan, Councilmember Jimmy Van Bramer is ripping another large-scale project proposed for his Western Queens district, this time at the erstwhile Amazon site.

In a letter to local anti-displacement groups, Van Bramer said he opposes the current plan to develop a 12 million-square-foot mixed-use complex at Anable Basin, the Long Island City location once designated for a new Amazon corporate campus.

After Amazon backed out of the deal in 2019, a coalition of four developers stepped in and proposed a project that features various residential towers rising as high as 700 feet as well as parks and dedicated arts and entertainment spaces. Advocates have urged Van Bramer to reject the proposal, known as YourLIC, arguing that it would price out residents in the surrounding area.

“There is no question that this project as proposed would cause rents to rise in the surrounding community,” Van Bramer said in his letter. “There are far too many luxury apartments included and the proposed affordability is simply unacceptable.”
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The developers — TF Cornerstone, Simon Baron Development, L&L MAG and Plaxall — have hosted public workshops on the YourLIC project, but the COVID-19 shutdown has kept the events virtual, limiting community engagement, Van Bramer said.

“Zoom meetings are no substitute for in person town halls where people can discuss, review and debate such a monumental project,” he said.


Van Bramer said he supports shifting publicly owned land at Anable Basin to a community land trust model — a goal of many local groups, including the Western Queens Community Land Trust. Some of the land is owned by Plaxall.

“I have said before and I will say again that all of the publicly owned land in this site should be used exclusively for the public,” Van Bramer. “Not handed over to developers for profit, and I strongly support a community land trust on this site.”

“I do believe that something should happen on this land, but this proposal isn't that something,” he added.
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Van Bramer’s letter marks the second time in five days he has come out against a large local development project. On July 2, he blasted a $2 billion mixed-use project proposed for the southeastern Astoria portion of his district.

The proposal, known as “Innovation QNS,” is backed by developers Silverstein Properties and BedRock Real Estate Partners and would take over a five-block commercial stretch from 37th Street to Northern Boulevard/43rd Street between 35th and 36th Avenues.

The Long Island City and Astoria projects both require rezoning approval from the City Council, which traditionally votes in lockstep with the local member on land use issues.
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Some screen grabs from the last workshop....I need them to add at least a 900 footer to this. There will be too many towers of similar height in Queens the way things are shaping up. It needs a dominant tower like Brooklyn is getting.


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Can we add the study area square footage to the title of this thread? 10.7 mil-sq ft is like an instant anti depressant in its effect. It feels good to read that figure. Plus it gives the thread a more serious nature. The type of project that means business!

Between this and the Penn Station district and Innovation QNS... I'm very happy.

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Can we add the study area square footage to the title of this thread? 10.7 mil-sq ft is like an instant anti depressant in its effect. It feels good to read that figure. Plus it gives the thread a more serious nature. The type of project that means business!

Between this and the Penn Station district and Innovation QNS... I'm very happy.

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Yeah, this is huge. We have what's for now, 15 towers. That's what happens when you bring three different developers together to form one super-project.
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Some screen grabs from the last workshop....I need them to add at least a 900 footer to this. There will be too many towers of similar height in Queens the way things are shaping up. It needs a dominant tower like Brooklyn is getting
That 514' Commodore 64 monitor seems like the ideal site for the tallest in the complex.
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That 514' Commodore 64 monitor seems like the ideal site for the tallest in the complex.
Yeah, it's maxed out at 700 ft, but it should be at least 900 ft if we can't get a supertall. Queens needs an iconic skyscraper now that they've built a skyline.



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I hope they add a sizable chunk of affordable housing. I can kinda understand the demands of that Jimmy Van Bramer bloke, but if they want more affordable housing, they need to increase the density and increase the zoning if thats what they desire. Fair is fair.

If he's serious about affordable housing, they need to work with the developers to make it happen, while at the same time, not screwing the developers.
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I hope they add a sizable chunk of affordable housing. I can kinda understand the demands of that Jimmy Van Bramer bloke, but if they want more affordable housing, they need to increase the density and increase the zoning if thats what they desire. Fair is fair.

If he's serious about affordable housing, they need to work with the developers to make it happen, while at the same time, not screwing the developers.
I get the concerns about affordability and gentrification by Van Bramer, but he's not offering an alternative. It's lip service without a solution. Blocking development puts pressure on the current housing stock. Doing nothing when the population is growing - thousands of additional condos and rental units have been added in recent year and more are on the way - does the same thing as adding a big development. It creates pressure to raise rents. Best to collaborate with a willing partner.
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NYC Developers Push to Jump-Start Public Review of Key Construction Projects





BY GREG DAVIDG
JUL 12, 2020


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Twenty-four proposals in pre-review with city planners are frozen. Projects awaiting certification for public scrutiny range from an ambitious rezoning of the Gowanus Canal area in Brooklyn to a sprawling mixed-use development encompassing the Queens waterfront site once coveted by Amazon.

Left in limbo are all the players in the six-month review process known as the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, or ULURP, during which developers make their pitches and the public weighs in before the City Council and the mayor get the final say.

“It is critical to the city to get going on ULURP,” said Mitch Korbey, chair of the land use and zoning group at New York-based law firm Herrick, Feinstein. “Doing so will demonstrate the city is in recovery and moving ahead on development.”
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City officials publicly agree with the real estate interests.

Vicki Been, deputy mayor for housing and economic development, said during a recent webinar sponsored by the Real Estate Board of New York and the law firm Greenberg Traurig that restarting ULURP was important and that she expected it would begin again in “the early fall.” She wouldn’t be more specific when a REBNY representative pressed for a precise date.

Been cited the technological challenges of the ULURP process, which requires action by the Department of City Planning to certify the project. That’s followed by a public review with recommendations by the local community board and the borough president, a vote by the City Planning Commission and then, in most cases, an up-or-down vote by the City Council — all within six months.

Critics note that both the Landmarks Preservation Commission and the Board of Standards and Appeals have resumed work, and the City Council is holding online hearings.
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The third effort involves building up to 12 million square feet at the Long Island City waterfront site that was planned for the Amazon second headquarters amid political controversy.

A consortium that includes TF Cornerstone hopes to win approval by the end of 2021 with a plan for half office or nonresidential use. About seven acres would be reserved for public space, including a new half-acre plaza on the waterfront.

The group plans to make a case designed to directly address Been’s matrix, noting how the pandemic has devastated the borough.

“It’s time for Queens to get some of the economic development benefits that have been afforded to Brooklyn and Manhattan,” said Mary Anne Gilmartin, a member of the group. “We need leadership and commitment on the part of city government.”

Real estate industry insiders who would not speak for attribution for fear of angering the administration said they believe the delay in kick-starting the public review process stems from the mayor’s preoccupation with other issues and an unwillingness to incur the heat some projects are likely to generate.
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April Simpson, president of the tenant association at NYCHA’s Queensbridge Houses, told NY1 she backs the plan because it will bring many jobs to her neighborhood.

But Councilmember Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Queens), who was one of the leaders in the fight against the Amazon project, opposes the development proposal, suggesting it will drive up local rents and is too big for the neighborhood.
“There are far too many luxury apartments included and the proposed affordability is simply unacceptable,” he wrote in a letter late last week to groups opposing the development, QNS.com reported.

Van Bramer has complained that the public review process can’t be adequately carried out online. But those who want the city to get ULURP underway say the city’s future depends on moving soon.
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Councilman Richards announces support of Your LIC waterfront development


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August 5, 2020


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City Councilman and lead candidate for Queens Borough President Donovan Richards announced his support of the Your LIC waterfront development.

The development, a project four private developers are looking to build in the 28-acre land along Anable Basin — made popular due to Amazon’s proposed HQ2 — has garnered much attention throughout what is almost a year of its public visioning sessions.

“As we battle massive inequality across Queens, the Long Island City waterfront presents a key opportunity to create new jobs, affordable housing and much-needed community facilities,” Richards told QNS. “We need ambitious proposals that will bring significant private and public investment into communities that have long endured disparities based on their socio-economic status.”
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Your LIC’s developers, MAG Partners, Plaxall, Simon Baron Development, and TF Cornerstone, were brought together by City Council Speaker Corey Johnson last year in order to create a comprehensive plan with community input well before the ULURP process.

So far, developers have revealed they plan to develop 10 to 12 million square feet of the 28-acre land with up to 15 buildings that range from 400 to 700 feet in height, or 37 to 64 stories. They’ve mentioned seven acres of public open space. The plan also calls for 50 percent of commercial space, 30 percent residential and 13 percent “community” space that would include three new public schools and space for arts and culture.

Developers say they’ve committed to 5,700 total apartments with 25 percent (or 1,400 units) being affordable, which they say will be consistent with the area’s Mandatory Inclusionary Housing metrics. When asked for specific price range for the units, Your LIC Spokesperson Jovanna Rizzo said they did not have those specifics yet.
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Richards is making good with his intentions to “play an outsized role in these conversations — more aggressively than what we’ve seen in the past,” he said in July.

“I applaud the Your LIC team for working diligently to solicit community feedback, especially from NYCHA residents who stand to gain the most with this plan,” said Richards. “We must allow it to advance through the ULURP process so we can collectively shape the best possible project for Long Island City’s future.”

His support of the project comes after local Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer announced his opposition to it as it currently stands, following a letter from various western Queens organizations who believe the public land should be used for public good and developed as a community land trust.

“I do not support the Your LIC proposal. Words of support from REBNY yes men mean little in the face of widespread community concern,” Van Bramer told QNS. “Advancing millions of square feet of residential and commercial space should not be done hastily or without consideration to the local community. Simply put, we don’t need more luxury apartments subsidized with giveaways to the ultra rich. Shame on anyone who supports them.”
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Van Bramer, who also has a history of accepting real estate money, didn’t answer questions about what should happen on that land specifically. But the Long Island City representative reiterated that COVID-19 has changed everything.

“New development should focus on the deep affordability needs of the community, both living and working space,” he said. “The proposals I have seen are woefully inadequate. Furthermore, no one even knows what the future of work will look like post-COVID.”
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Too bad they couldn't come up with a unified plan.



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.....the city will remove its own sliver of the land from the group project and proceed with separate plans there. TF Cornerstone has long been the developer of that site.

“TFCornerstone is and will continue to be our partner on the public sites," Schwartz said. "We look forward to working with them in the coming months to identify the path forward.”

The other developers — MaryAnne Gilmartin and Bruce Teitelbaum — were planning a mixed-use project on the rest of the location. They partnered with the Plaxall family, which has long owned much of the land. The city had demanded the development team spend $280 million on nearby infrastructure improvements outside of the area that would be rezoned.


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Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration scuttled the talks with a group including MaryAnne Gilmartin’s company and Bruce Teitelbaum over disagreements regarding infrastructure work at the site, Politico reported.

“We remain committed to Long Island City’s future as a thriving mixed use community. That means supporting proposals that properly account for the development’s critical infrastructure needs and impacts, like open space, transportation and water and sewer,” de Blasio spokesman Mitch Schwartz told the publication. “After extensive discussions with YourLIC developers, we are disappointed that the proposed project does not deliver on those requirements.” PBS first tweeted out the city’s statement.

Now, with the talks broken down, the city and TF Cornerstone will move forward separately to rezone their property.
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I don't really see this as an issue. YourLIC approvals are just separate from the city-owned site, where before they were combined.

It kinda makes sense, because the city-owned site was always gonna be middle-income residential towers, and YourLIC is the replacement for the Amazon site, with a heavy commercial component.
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It might send a mixed message to future developers. Anytime the process is twisted or takes different trajectories, it sends a mixed message. Developers like stability, and definitely a smooth streamlined process from the city administration. With the whole Amazon debacle, it did send a message, even if in the acute sense.
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I don't really see this as an issue. YourLIC approvals are just separate from the city-owned site, where before they were combined.

It kinda makes sense, because the city-owned site was always gonna be middle-income residential towers, and YourLIC is the replacement for the Amazon site, with a heavy commercial component.

Don't forget that the TF Cornerstone sites were going to be office and mixed-use. Those are the City sites.


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https://qns.com/story/2020/02/19/tf-...-anable-basin/

TF Cornerstone contemplates massive office tower on former Amazon HQ2 campus along the Anable Basin


By Bill Parry
February 19, 2020


Elghanayan was also able to find a silver lining after his company’s partnership with Amazon collapsed.

“In a funny way, it improved Long Island City because no one was thinking about Long Island City as an office headquarters distinction before and now people are going ‘well, Amazon could go there,’” Elghanayan said. “In fact, we plan to build a building a million square feet. It’s quite a large building.”



Those would be the wide buildings seen from this angle. Because the city owned sites are in the middle of the development, we could end up with 3 separate approval processes. It was the city that pushed for a streamlined approach, just as they did in Two-Bridges with the multiple towers there.







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