Permits have been filed for a five-story commercial building at 126-87 Willets Point Boulevard in Willets Point, Queens. Located south of the intersection of Willets Point Boulevard and 127th Street, the lot is one block north of the Mets-Willets Point subway station, serviced by the 7 train. New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development is listed as the owner behind the applications.
The proposed 100-foot-tall development will yield 500,000 square feet designated for commercial space. The building permit details use for a restaurant, office space, a lecture hall, a commercial kitchen with dining room, and retail space. The steel-based structure will also have three loading berths and 43 open parking spaces.
James Christerson of HOK is listed as the architect of record.
Demolition permits have not been filed yet. An estimated completion date has not been announced.
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The building to be demolished is actually one of the better-looking places in the area that otherwise has a Third-World appearance with dirt streets and no sewers. Buildings here are limited in height due to the proximity of LGA flight paths.
“Fort Totten is a former active United States Army installation in the New York City borough of Queens. It is located on the Willets Point peninsula on the north shore of Long Island…Construction began on the “Fort at Willets Point” in 1862 (named Fort Totten in 1898), after the land was purchased by the U.S. Government in 1857 from the Willets family.”—Wikipedia
Still?!? “…the Willets Point peninsula…”—we get it!
This kind of sounds like a soccer stadium…
I just checked, it is the soccer stadium. Occupancy Classification: A-5 – Assembly (Outdoors), and FILING HEREWITH FOR FIVE-STORY STADIUM NEW BUILDING AS PER PLANS.
So the lecture hall mentioned must be the pitch?
In think you mean field.
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Press room
The name “Willets Point” is being misapplied. The place that has always borne it is a peninsula that sticks into Little Neck Bay and contains the old military installation Fort Totten. Why is Willets Point Blvd. in Flushing Meadow so named? Because it leads to Fort Totten, several miles to the east.