Work is set to begin on a new mixed-use skyscraper complex at 71-12 Park Avenue in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens. Developed by Marx Development Group, the project will comprise two towers rising from a shared podium, and could potentially span over 1.1 million square feet. The property is located along Parsons Boulevard between 71st and 72nd Avenues.
71-12 Park Avenue in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens via Marx Development Group
71-12 Park Avenue in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens via Marx Development Group
According to the developer’s website, the structures will stand 47 stories and yield 800 apartments. However, permits filed in 2019 detail a 50-story tower designed by DSM Design Group that rises 572 feet and comprises 853 units, 623 parking spaces, and 26,946 square feet of community facility space.
Situated on a vacant lot adjacent to the New York Police Department 107th Precinct, the mid-block site is bordered by Parsons Boulevard to the west and Park Avenue to the east. Recent permits were filed for ground work to begin.
Image of building according the poster placed on the work site.
Renderings on the developer’s site depict a glassy tower made up of multiple volumes stacked at alternating angles over a glass cube podium. However, the rendering on the construction board shows two L-shaped towers, consistent in form from podium to parapet. Their façades are composed of floor-to-ceiling glass framed with an irregular grid of paneling. It’s unclear which design will be built.
Site of 71-12 Park Avenue in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens as of March 14, 2024. Courtesy of Roadview.planninglabs.nyc
71-12 Park Avenue is expected to be completed in 2028.
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The patterned towers make the podium look painfully plain.
Holy transit desert Batman.
This should hopefully please all the size queens. But that base really is terrible and a complete affront to the neighborhood. And apparently NYC needs 623 more dirty cars on the streets.
Queens and Brooklyn are determined to become parking lots
Good for Kew Gardens!..These buildings look more like Manhattan ‘trophy towers’..Go Queens!
Perfect for Queens. It fits right in more luxury apartments and how many rent stabilized? Designed in Shanghai.
The top rendering is irrelevant. What’s getting built is the updated design on the construction fence and it looks great.
What a great looking project. Fingers crossed the design on the construction fence is the one we will see built. Probably could use 100+ more parking spaces, but otherwise a great property.
This site, and project really needs a commercial overlay along Parsons Blvd so they can have some active ground floor uses.
Is this really going to fit in with this neighborhood? Great views from the apartment cs but a real middle finger to the neighbors. The “Manhattanization” of central Queens begins.