Construction has reached street level for Union Center, a 16-story mixed-use building at 37-16 Union Street in Flushing, Queens. Designed by Raymond Chan Architect and developed Lions Group NYC, the 189-foot-tall structure will span 207,239 square feet, with 133,000 square feet of Class A office space, community facility space, 5,000 square feet of ground-floor retail, a 48-foot-long rear yard, and 142 enclosed valet parking spaces across three cellar levels. The office space will offer flexible tenant arrangements and roof terraces on the 16th floor. ZL Macedonia LLC is listed as the owner of the property, which is situated on an interior lot facing the intersection of Union Street and 38th Avenue.
Recent photographs show crews in the process of pouring the ground-floor slab, with broad sections of exposed steel rebar awaiting to be encased. An excavator is finishing unearthing the last sections of the site within the fenced-in building footprint. The superstructure should start to rise in the coming weeks.
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 property was formerly occupied by a low-rise structure housing the Macedonia African Methodist Episcopal Church, as seen in the following Google Street View image before its demolition in 2021.
37-16 Union Street. Image: Google
The renderings in the main photo and below depict the structure rising from a multi-story podium clad in gray metal paneling and floor-to-ceiling glass, with a landscaped terrace atop its setback. Above, the building rises with a sleek glass curtain wall with an inward taper on the last four stories. A roof terrace will be positioned on the northeast corner of the top level for office tenants. The ground floor features expansive retail frontage and a garage entrance at the northern end along Union Street.
37-16 Union Street. Designed by Raymond Chan Architect.
Paris Forino is in charge of interior design for the facility.
37-16 Union Street. Designed by Raymond Chan Architect.
B Square Realty and The Barbie Li Real Estate Team are leading marketing and leasing. The nearest subway from the site is the 7 train at the Flushing-Main Street station to the south along Roosevelt Avenue.
Union Center’s anticipated completion date is slated for winter 2025, as noted on site, though YIMBY predicts work to finish sometime later in 2026.
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Birds beware..
Decentralizing the city’s office areas is good.
The site of the old Municipal Parking Lot was intended to have several large buildings and a public space plaza. Only two buildings were completed and the remainder of the parking lot was restored without the deteriorated second level. The Macedonia AME congregation moved to Jamaica, Queens, and its buildings were demolished. There was a burial ground adjoining the church. This building is an infilling at the incomplete project.
The parking lot was built on the former “Black Dublin” neighborhood of Irish immigrants and African Americans and disappeared during a slum clearance project mid century.