NEW YORK | 93-01 Sutphin Blvd | 290 + 145 FT | 26 + 14 FLOORS

[chris08876]

Originally Posted by JR Ewing

By gentrify, I mean that normal people will be there. Right now, that stretch of Sutphin is inhabited by lowlives. That would be a good area for young professionals since it's a 15 min express ride to Penn.

I agree. Its happening along major transit lines and the surrounding areas. It will gentrify no worries. As Manhattan becomes ever more expensive, locations such as this will be ideal for young grads and millennials. Overtime, as they mature with the new residents, the neighborhood will naturally clean up.

LIC is one neighborhood that is taking a dramatic leap. Use to be a dump, but by 2020, it will seem almost integrated with Midtown East.

[JR Ewing]

Originally Posted by The New York Lion

I have no doubt it will gentrify, my friend.

Queens and The Bronx are the last frontiers.

The Bronx's day will come. The area by Yankee Stadium is ripe for development

It has amazing transit links

[chris08876]

That's the area I think most are interested in its rise. The S.Bronx. In terms of affordable housing, De Blasio plans a lot of it in that area. Bronx is one of the key areas for the housing plan.

[Busy Bee]

I'd love to see some 30+ floor highrises go up all over the southern Bronx.

[Hypothalamus]

Updated the post @ YIMBY

http://www.yimbynews.com/2015/06/dev...t-jamaica.html

[chris08876]

New Look: 93-43 Sutphin Boulevard, Hilton Garden Inn, Jamaica

Just as BRP Companies gets ready to start construction on its big, mixed-use project, The Crossing at Jamaica Station, Able Management is working on plans for a 27-story Hilton Garden Inn at 93-43 Sutphin Boulevard, across the street from the Jamaica AirTrain and LIRR station. Now YIMBY has a new rendering for the Hilton, first revealed by DNAinfo last fall.

The hotel will span 125,000 square feet and hold 225 rooms, according to a rep from architecture firm GF55 Partners. A forty-foot glass base will host the lobby, bars, pool and a green roof terrace on the fourth floor. Twenty-three stories of rooms will rise on top, complete with a rooftop bar. There will also be a restaurant and a gym.

When it’s finished, the building will be the tallest in the area, just beating the 26-story residential tower planned on the next block at 147-30 Archer Avenue.

GF55 Partners, headquartered in the Flatiron District, will handle the architecture and interior design.

Greater Jamaica Development Corp., which also assembled BRP Companies’ 50,000-square-foot site, transferred the property to Able Management earlier this year. The holder of a 99-year-lease on the site attempted to block the sale, but a state Supreme Court judge ruled that he had to accept a $444,000 payment for his remaining interest on the lot, the Daily News reported in January. After the judge handed down his decision, the Plainview, N.Y.-based hotel developer could take over the site.

Both the Crossing and the Hilton Garden Inn benefit from high-density C6-4 zoning, which offers significant floor area bonuses for including below-market units or developing a public plaza. The Hilton’s developer plans to build a new park around the corner in exchange for the right to build 20% larger.

Able estimates the hotel will cost $54 million, and they hope to break ground in early 2016.

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http://www.yimbynews.com/2015/07/new...n-jamaica.html

[Hypothalamus]

Title Update: NEW YORK | 93-01 Sutphin Blvd | 290 + 145 FT | 26 + 14 FLOORS

Originally Posted by Hypothalamus

Updated the post @ YIMBY

http://www.yimbynews.com/2015/06/dev...t-jamaica.html

Demo permits currently up for 93-01 Sutphin Boulevard and everything at 147-12 - 147-34 Archer Avenue.

[chris08876]

Ready and Able: LI developer closes on Jamaica parcel, files hotel plans

Able Management Group closed Monday on its acquisition of 93-47 Sutphin Boulevard in the Queens neighborhood of Jamaica, and subsequently filed plans Friday for its new 27-story hotel development on the site.

The Long Island-based developer, led by CEO Viral Patel, closed on its purchase of the property from the Greater Jamaica Development Corp. for an undisclosed amount, according to a source with knowledge of the deal – allowing the developer to push forward with a planned Hilton Garden Inn on the site.

The development is slated to hold 225 rooms across 125,000 square feet, with amenities including a pool, fitness room and lobby restaurant and bar. The hotel’s rooftop will also house a bar and terrace. Plans overcame a hurdle earlier this year after the Greater Jamaica Development Corp. settled a lawsuit with Robin Eshaghpour, who claimed to hold a 99-year lease on the site, according to the New York Daily News. The developers also had to reach a deal with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which owned a third of the property.

The project, scheduled to break ground early next year, is among a flurry of big-ticket developments coming to Jamaica — with BRP Companies planning two mixed-use buildings housing 580 apartments and developer Pride Hospitality Group building an 18-story, 283-key hotel nearby.

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http://therealdeal.com/blog/2015/08/....XGkUZ2Fg.dpuf

[dumbo]

Jamaica is really undergoing a renaissance. Probably a bigger transformation than any other neighborhood in NYC at the moment.

[aquablue]

Only marginally relevant to this discussion, however: The air-train station should not be there. A through-train all the way to JFK was the RIGHT approach NON-STOP like how you see it done elsewhere in the modern world. Shame on the PA.

[Crawford]

Originally Posted by aquablue

Only marginally relevant to this discussion, however: The air-train station should not be there. A through-train all the way to JFK was the RIGHT approach NON-STOP like how you see it done elsewhere in the modern world. Shame on the PA.

That would be completely impossible. There are seven terminals, so you could never have a nonstop. There are very few cities with a single terminal allowing for nonstop service to a city center.

And it would be a ridiculous waste of money, given the much more pressing regional transit needs.

[aquablue]

Originally Posted by Crawford

That would be completely impossible. There are seven terminals, so you could never have a nonstop. There are very few cities with a single terminal allowing for nonstop service to a city center.

And it would be a ridiculous waste of money, given the much more pressing regional transit needs.

I disagree. The change at Jamaica thing is a bit half-assed. Fine, it works, but it's slow and takes nearly 50 mins to the city using the two train approach.

It needed to be one-seat-ride to the Airport to attract enough pax and take cars off that congested highway. I said Non-Stop to the airport. Look at Heathrow. It's 15 mins to the airport with stops at different terminals. Not every terminal needs a stop. Walkways link up terminal 2 and 3 to one station. JFK could use that kind of approach and it could be run privately. Companies would love to make a fortune on those who want a direct link to Manhattan from the busiest airport in the city.

There is still hope for a one-seat-ride JFK express someday, most likely using a hybrid train that would SLASH times and increase the attractiveness of the system to more and more people. That lies with leaders of the region and weather they want to emulate NY's peer cities overseas or stay with second-rate mickey-mouse, yet cheaper, solutions.

[chris08876]

The Crossing at Jamaica Station is a new apartment development by BRP Companies currently in preconstruction at 93-01 Sutphin Boulevard, Queens. The development is scheduled for completion in 2018. The development has a total of 669 units.

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https://www.buzzbuzzhome.com/us/the-...amaica-station

[NYguy]

https://therealdeal.com/2017/01/31/b...-resi-complex/

BRP pulls off $290M loan to build Jamaica resi complex
The two buildings would hold 669 apartments





January 31, 2017
By Kathryn Brenzel

BRP Companies scored $290 million from the New York City Housing Development Corporation to build a 669-unit apartment complex in Queens.

The city provided $227 million for 147-40 Archer Avenue, where BRP plans to build a 26-story, mixed-income property with 539 units, according to documents filed with the city on Tuesday. The developer received another $63.3 million for 148-10 Archer Avenue, a 14-story building with 130 low-income units. FXFOWLE is designing both buildings.

The project, known as the Crossing at Jamaica Station, is expected to include 523,000 square feet of residential space, 96,121 square feet of commercial space and 17,375 square feet for a community facility. In the taller building, the first three floors will hold retail space, while a church will occupy the two-story base of the shorter property.

The city previously estimated that the project will cost $352 million. Representatives for HDC and BRP didn’t immediately return requests seeking additional information.

BRP purchased the development site from the nonprofit Greater Jamaica Development Corporation in June 2015 for $19.5 million.

In December, BRP agreed to build 38 low- to moderate-income apartments at a formerly deed-restricted site in Harlem.

[chris08876]

Under Construction


Credit: walpole

[chris08876]

Jamaica's enormous AirTrain-adjacent rental buildings are ready to rise

The massive new residential project set to rise near Jamaica’s AirTrain Terminal will officially get underway tomorrow after a groundbreaking ceremony hosted by developer BRP Companies.

The Crossing at Jamaica Station, as the project is known, is being built at a cost of $407 million, and will create 669 affordable apartments, along with retail, a community space, and parking for 187 cars.

The apartments will be spread out between two buildings: A 26-story tower will have 539 mixed-income apartments, and a 14-story tower will come with 130 low-income units. Both buildings are being designed by FXFOWLE, and will feature retail and community facility components.

The project has been in the works for nearly three years now. When it was first announced, plans called for 580 apartments, and the rental was expected to break ground in mid-2015. We got a look at new renderings of the building last fall, and that also brought news that the apartment count had increased to 669.

In February this year, BRP Companies received a $324 million boost from the city’s Housing Development Corporation, allowing the project to move forward. This is just one of the many new projects in various stages of development in Jamaica. A 177-unit affordable development is planned at 89-50 164th Street, and the NYPD parking garage at 168th Street will be converted into 350 affordable apartments. Work on the AirTrain-adjacent development is supposed to wrap sometime in 2019.

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NYCurbed

[chris08876]

Under Construction


Long Island Railroad, 07/06/17: construction on the property at Sutphin Boulevard and Archer Avenue, next to Jamaica Station (IMG_5245) by Gary Dunaier, on Flickr

[chris08876]

Marathon concrete pour at new ‘superblockʼ development

CNY, acting on behalf of developers BRP Companies and Goldman Sachs, announced a milestone at The Crossing at Jamaica Station: a concrete pour for foundations of the Queens project’s 30-story residential high rise and slab on grade for 25,000 s/f of ground floor retail.

The transit-oriented development (TOD) located at Archer Avenue and Sutphin Boulevard, is heralded as an important part of Greater Jamaica’s revitalization.

CNY is providing Construction Management at Risk services for the project.

During the 16-hour event, approximately 2,500 cubic yards of concrete were poured, delivered by 280 trucks dispatched from two Queens-based plants, City Transit and Casa.

Six chutes were set up on 147th and 148th Streets with two pump trucks positioned on both the west and east sides of the site.

“This pour marks a significant progression in construction,” said Dennis Prude, executive vice president, Field Operations of CNY Group, “It sets the stage for erection of a giant tower crane that will be situated onsite in about 10 weeks’ time.

“Complicating the pour, is that it took place in a 24/7 busy urban environment — it is literally adjacent to an active parking garage, multiple retail stores, and between the LIRR and three MTA subway lines.”

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http://rew-online.com/2017/12/20/mar...C-development/

[chris08876]

Long Island Railroad, 05/10/18: if you love trains with a passion uncontested, you might want to move into this mixed-use building now being built next to the tracks at Jamaica Station (IMG_9067) by Gary Dunaier, on Flickr

[Barney Greengrass]

This is great news for a long neglected transit hub, going to have to follow this one and grab pics when I fly Kennedy.