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Flushing will never have a real skyline because of JFK. Same with Newark, but because of Newark.
Newark already has a skyline, but that's beyond the point. Zoning will keep a lot of the extra tall towers in line. While the are certain areas in New York that have no height limits, the vast majority of the city does.
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Old Posted Jun 30, 2016, 1:32 AM
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http://queenstribune.com/skys-the-li...e-even-higher/

Sky’s The Limit: New LIC Project Sends Queens’ Skyline Even Higher

BY DOMENICK RAFTER
June 02, 2016


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The battle to dominate Long Island City’s growing skyline is quickly becoming an arms race.

Yet another proposal is preparing to take the claim of Queens’ tallest building, opening up the possibility that by the end of the decade One Court Square, once the borough’s only skyscraper, will get lost in a sea of supertall towers.

Now it is the City View Tower, a 78-story high rise with total square feet of 969,000, proposed for the Court Square area of Long Island City.

Plans for the supertall residential tower were filed in February.

The 984-foot tower at 23-15 44th Dr., will contain 774 luxury residential units and 100,000 square feet of commercial spaces.

The architect firm is Goldstein, Hill & West Architects. The developer is Queens-based United Construction and Development, founded by Chris Xu. United Construction and Development are also the developers of several other Queens projects, including hotels in Jamaica and apartment buildings and supermarkets in Flushing and Whitestone.

The building will be easily accessible to public transit – with the Court Square subway station, and the E, F, G and 7 trains just steps away and the Queensboro Plaza station, served by the N and 7 trains, a short walk to the north.

City View Tower will be more than 300 feet taller than One Court Square – which will sit less than a block away – and several dozen feet taller than a 915-foot tower, Queens Plaza Park, proposed for 47th Avenue just north of Queens Plaza. Several other buildings around the height of One Court Square are under construction or proposed for the area.

The building boom in Long Island City is the result of a 2001 rezoning that allowed for taller skyscrapers to be constructed in and around Court Square and Queens Plaza, forming another “downtown” atmosphere in the area.

Most of the tallest structures that have been built and are under construction are residential, however, as the desire for living space grows exponentially in Long Island City.

More than 10,000 apartments and 1.5 million square feet of office space have been developed in the Court Square/Queens Plaza area since the 2001 rezoning, according to the New York City Economic Development Corp.

If approved by the city Department of Buildings and the Federal Aviation Administration – the building sits near LaGuardia Airport’s flight path – the project is slated to break ground in 2017 and be completed in 2019.
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Old Posted Aug 17, 2016, 6:12 AM
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Not an actual proposal, so I didn't create a thread, but it looks like CityView could have more potential competition....


https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external...99416021&row=5


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Structure Type: Feasibility Study
Structure Name: Site 1 - 41-02 22nd Street

Site Elevation: 14

Structure Height: 1000

Total Height (AMSL): 1014

A neighboring site...


https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external...99416022&row=6


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Structure Type: Feasibility Study
Structure Name: Site 2 - 22-09 Queens Plaza North

Site Elevation: 17

Structure Height: 885

Total Height (AMSL): 902


https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external...9416026&row=10

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Structure Type: Feasibility Study
Structure Name: Site 6 - 43-01 Queens Street

Site Elevation: 16

Structure Height: 1340

Total Height (AMSL): 1356


https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external...99416025&row=9

CityView site
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Structure Type: Feasibility Study
Structure Name: Site 5 - 23-17 44th Drive

Site Elevation: 16

Structure Height: 1100

Total Height (AMSL): 1116

https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external...9416027&row=11

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Structure Type: Feasibility Study
Structure Name: Site 7 - 45-55 Pearson

Site Elevation: 14

Structure Height: 1029

Total Height (AMSL): 1043
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That would be amazing if those heights happened; given that its just a feasibility study. But surely some super talls could and would work here. The demand is here, especially if they are residential and catered to a 500-3 million market. I checked the sites on maps and they are all crummy small low rises.
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Does anyone know if that's what those sites are currently zoned for?
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Holy crap. I hope some of those adjacent development sites get going in the coming years. We could have a new supertall cluster.
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well somebody put up some coin and effort for those.

interesting the requests were all received by the faa on the same day in july.
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^ I was just thinking it may be part of some further city study for rezoning, but they wouldn't need those exact numbers for that. It's odd. May be something for the pipeline of the future, but they need to know if it can be done before moving forward with any planning. The CityView site itself is on that list for an 1,100 ft tower.
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Flushing developer refis LIC skyscraper project with $100M from Bank of China

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Chris Jiashu Xu refinanced a Long Island City development site with a $100 million loan from the Bank of China, property records show. The Flushing-based developer plans to build a 79-story, 779,000-square-foot mixed-use tower at 23-15 44th Drive. Rising 984 feet, it is slated to be the neighborhood’s tallest tower.

Xu bought the site from Citigroup last year for $143 million. The new mortgage replaces a Ladder Capital acquisition loan.

Dubbed Court Square City View Tower, the building will feature 660 apartments and 100,000 square feet of commercial space, according to the developer’s website.

Xu’s United Construction & Development Group filed plans for the project in February. They have yet to be approved.

Xu could not immediately be reached for comment. He and his brother George previously jointly ran C&G Empire Realty, but now work independently. George Xu now works under the name Century Development Group.
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Turns out it was the City (City Planning) behind these studies as it considers future development...



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This Feasibility Study, otherwise known as a limited aeronautical review, is being conducted based upon a submission by the New York Department of City Planning as it relates to the possible future expeansion of Long Island City due to rezoning.

The New York City Planning Department is neither an actual sponsor nor proponent at this time. This Feasibility Study is not a formal determination, and is based on very broad, estimated, or general information supplied by the Planning Department as it relates to potential structures whereby the city may work towards identify maximum allowable heights in certain areas for future planning purposes.

Please keep in mind that there is always a possibility that a formal aeronautical study submitted by a proponent may prove to be different from the results indicated in this study, as the results of this study are not considered an official FAA determination.
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Old Posted Nov 30, 2016, 5:42 AM
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Dated but awesome views of the LIC area where this tower will rise...



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NYguy — Those videos were epic!
LIC has waited long enough for its own skyline.
That aerial view upside-down was epic!

Unless Weehawken hosts their own skyline, the twin rivers will never truly create the massive canyon surrounding Manhattan that we all wish for.

For such a grand-scale plan, we must hope for cooperation from the NJ state.
In particular, support for residential highrises (but you can expect opposition on this front from the residents living up on the mountain top). They won't want to give up their Midtown views, no matter what offers come there way.

But even a small skyline along the waterfront would be very profitable for Weehawken.
Look at this beauty!
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Durst purchased the site, I'd imagine we see this kick off next year.
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Durst purchased the site, I'd imagine we see this kick off next year.
Durst didn't purchase this site at Court square.. he purchased the site north of Queen Plaza where the clock tower building is. Both sites were to be supertall or near supertall heights.

http://ny.curbed.com/2016/12/16/1398...kyscraper-sale
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Ah sorry, so many development sites in LIC hard to keep track!
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Ah sorry, so many development sites in LIC hard to keep track!
A shitload of them too. Many with addresses that are extremely similar and close. And this is missing a lot of midrises which outnumber the highrises u/c.

Exhibit A:

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Looking at that photo really makes me want the Sunnyside Yards proposal to happen. So much opportunity to sew the neighborhood back together.
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Very cool! I am actually very surprised there has not been more development on both sides of the river with the costs and limited availability on Manhattan.

How much do you think congested transit links (road and rail/subway) are to blame? Hypothetically, if there were 2x the connections into the city, would you see an explosion of development across the rovers?
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