Construction is quickly progressing on 26-32 Jackson Avenue, aka The Italic, a 49-story residential skyscraper rising in Long Island City, Queens. Designed by SLCE Architects and developed by American Lions, a joint venture between Fetner Properties and NY Lions Group, the ground-up 526-foot-tall structure will yield 384,043 square feet with 19,923 square feet of commercial space and 363 rental units ranging from studios to three-bedroom layouts with 109 units allocated towards affordable housing. Hunter Roberts Construction Group is the general contractor for the property, which is bound by Dutch Kills Street and an elevated roadway of the Queensboro Bridge to the northeast and Purves Street to the southwest.
Recent photographs show crews hanging up paneling on the lower levels of the building’s podium facing Jackson Avenue. The envelope for this portion of the development currently consists of reflective floor-to-ceiling glass, a metal mesh screen, spandrels with thin horizontal bands, and ventilation exhausts. Meanwhile, the crane and safety cocoon netting continue to climb upwards and YIMBY predict crews will top out before the end of the year. King Contracting Group is in charge of installing all of the CMU blocks.
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
The Italic (right). Photo by Michael Young
The Italic (right). Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
The Italic (left). Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
The Italic (left). Photo by Michael Young
The rest of the tower will have a more uniform appearance of glass as depicted in the updated renderings by Flower Rendering Studio. The crown of the skyscraper appears to have a light-colored metallic covering around the roof parapet and mechanical bulkhead.
Rendering by Flower Design Studio
Rendering by Flower Design Studio
Rendering by Flower Design Studio
In recent news, American Lions successfully secured $350 million in construction financing for the project. JLL represented American Lions in the transaction. Residential amenities will include a fitness center, a two-bay golf simulator, a communal lounge, a basketball court, co-working spaces, an outdoor rooftop terrace, and high-speed Wi-Fi throughout the building.
The property is situated between the Queens Plaza station to the northeast, servicing the E, M, and R trains, and the Court Square station to the southwest with access to the G and 7 trains. This station provides a connection to the E and M trains at the Court Square-23rd Street station.
26-32 Jackson Avenue’s anticipated completion date is slated for the summer of 2025, as noted on site.
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Yay, more boredom for LIC.
Would you prefer boredom or 35 luxury apartments spread over 200,000 square feet?
I choose the bulk of rentals over a handful of expensive condominiums
The clean lines and overall symmetry will make this building age well.
Alright!!! Another ugly boring glass box!!! Just what the area was missing! 👍
Over the last several decades, as people have fallen in love with floor-to-ceiling windows and light-strewn spaces, birds have suffered the consequences. The amount of glass in a building is the strongest predictor of how dangerous it is to birds, according to a report on the issue published by the city of Toronto.
Earlier this month in Chicago, almost a thousand birds were killed on a single day at a single building, McCormick Place. Nationwide, researchers estimate that hundreds of millions of birds die crashing into windows each year. It’s one factor, along with problems like habitat loss, behind a sharp decline in North America’s bird population. Since 1970, numbers have dropped by about 30 percent.
Architects and companies are trying out solutions. New windows at the Javits Center, a convention space in Midtown Manhattan, are set with patterns that make them more visible to birds, and deaths have declined by 90 percent. Since most crashes happen within 100 feet of the ground, skyscrapers are advised to treat only the first 10 or so stories.
Wow!. Drove a taxicab in the late 1980s, and the taxicab company was I believe at or around 27-45 Jackson Avenue. Looking at Google photographs which only go back to only 2007, it is really impressive to see how much this area of Queens has changed with all the new hi-rises. Completely different neighborhood. Have to get back and see it in person. Yes, New York is the city that never sleeps.