An updated design has been revealed for 30-25 Queens Boulevard, a 46-story residential skyscraper in Long Island City, Queens. Designed by CetraRuddy Architecture and developed by LargaVista Companies in a collaboration with Baron Property Group, the 525-foot-tall structure will span around 511,000 square feet and yield 561 homes in studio- to two-bedroom layouts, made up of 451 rentals and 110 condominium units. The project will also include 21,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. The property is alternately addressed as both 29-00 Northern Boulevard and 29-10 Queens Boulevard, and is located at the corner of Queens Plaza East and Queens Boulevard, directly west of the Sunnyside Yards rail tracks, and will include 169 affordable housing units.
The main rendering above looks northeast, showing the façade comprised of a reflective glass curtain wall with vertical strips of copper-hued paneling running the height of the tower. The massing incorporates angular volumes at the northern and eastern corners that slope upward to staggered setbacks, and the façade on these wings features a checkerboard pattern of bronze-hued paneling. The tower culminates in an angled crown topped with a mechanical bulkhead. While the tower appears to be leaning in the above image, this is likely just an error in the rendering, as the building appears squarely vertical in the other renderings, including the two below street-level renderings.
30-25 Queens Boulevard. Designed by CetraRuddy Architecture.
30-25 Queens Boulevard. Designed by CetraRuddy Architecture.
The building also appears to feature a subtle concave geometry, as seen in the below image.
30-25 Queens Boulevard. Designed by CetraRuddy Architecture.
Below is an additional rendering showing the base of the tower looking east.
30-25 Queens Boulevard. Designed by CetraRuddy Architecture.
Residential amenities will include a basketball court, pickleball court, outdoor grills, a fitness center, meditation studio, game room, co-working lounge, and a private rooftop swimming pool 500 feet above street level.
Work has been stalled at the 25,177-square-foot lot for some time, but it’s possible that the release of new renderings could signal an imminent resumption of activity.
30-25 Queens Boulevard in late 2024. Photo by Michael Young
The property was once occupied by an open-air parking lot, a gas station, a low-rise commercial structure, and a vacant lot at 29-00 Northern Boulevard. 30-25 Queens Boulevard sits directly adjacent to the entrance to the Queens Plaza subway station, served by the E, M, and R trains. The 7, R, and W trains are also accessible across Queens Boulevard East.
In recent news, Baron Property Group and LargaVista Companies today secured $388.5 million in construction financing. The deal was backed by Starwood Capital Group, Gotham Organization and Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies, and facilitated by HKS Real Estate Advisors and DIA Capital Group.
30-25 Queens Boulevard’s anticipated completion date is slated for 2028.
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Finally! Been walking past this empty lot for months and the blue walls really obstruct the sidewalk.
Just a correction – QBP is 7NW, not 7RW
CetraRuddy flexing their mediocre skills.
If this is really going to be “copped hued” paneling, it could be fine, but it looks yellow, which, no, we don’t need another William Beaver House.
Why are these bldgs so high in Long Island City..
The concept years ago was to rebuild and redesign was fine, but these high-rises and skyscrapers are ruining what was supposed to be Long Island City. I prefer the dunginess of the old warehouses. They weren’t as high but today, the streets on the ground filled with crime.
This is a sgane.
How do they expect people to live in these high-rises somebody living on the 40th floor? How can they get out of there in an emergency? I just don’t understand this whole business of tall skyscrapers. I am not denigrating the designers and the architectures designs but they just don’t belong in Long Island City
if you dont want to live on the 40th floor, you don’t have to. Many of us do want. And these buildings are much safer that an old wooden tenement that can burn down.
It’s called optimization of extremely valuable property to house as many people as practical so they are near public transit to get to work. And I’d love to live on the 40th floor – the views must be epic!!
ARE THESE SERIOUS QUESTIONS ???
Tall buildings? Half a mile from Manhattan?? Say it isn’t so!
I was raised in LIC when it looked like an actual neighborhood with small stores owned by people who lived in the neighborhood.
Long Island City is supposed to be more so like Manhattan. I’m tired of Manhattan being the most looked at borough because of it’s skyscrapers, wheres Queens or Brooklyn’s rightfully deserved appreciation?
My concern isn’t the urbanism (which is good), it’s the pervasiveness of bland glass architecture in LIC. Waiting for one brave developer to create a high rise there in some other material..
They’d say it’s price-point, but I don’t buy it.
Glass buildings are cheaper than brick or stone to build. They may be bland, but they just reflect the sky, so I don’t really have a big problem with them. Better a bland glass building than an ugly non-glass one (like the building nextdoor to this one).
Are you expecting RAMSA limestone in LIC for 450 rentals, 30-percent of which are affordable? The rental market is a race to the bottom with materials, or honestly any investment that doesn’t yield a return in general. How much more money is this developer going to get in rent by spending 30% more on the exterior architectural elements?
Glass curtain walls are also easier (read: cheaper) to maintain. People also like big windows.
More boring glass box drivel for LIC. At least they are consistent.
Change happens. Too bad the buildings in NYC are so often bland and/or ugly. Are there any creative architectural firms willing to make beautiful buildings in America rather than overseas? Apparently not! We have to live with these massive eyesores!
It’s not the architectural firms. They love creative and original developments. They don’t have the finacial liabilities . It’s the developers that have them and are reluctant to take the risk
Up and down Queens Blvd there are hundreds of new apartment buildings and you can see they’re empty. Meanwhile blocks of businesses were demolished to make room for these ugly buildings.
What fools these mortals be, building their bustling beehives, anxious anthills and vainglorious towers of babel, only to have them all crumble unto the forgotten & forlorn dustbin of eternity. They are but walking shadows and poor players who strut and fret their hour upon the stage, and then are heard no more. It’s a sad tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Head ’em up, move ’em on Move ’em out, head ’em up: Rawhide Cut ’em out, ride ’em in Ride ’em in, cut ’em out Cut ’em out, ride ’em in:Rawhide! Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’Rawhide! Keep rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ Though the streams are swollen Keep them dogies rollin’, rawhide Through rain and wind and weather Hell bent for leather Wishin’ my gal was by my side All the things I’m missin’ Good vittles, love, and kissin’ Are waiting at the end of my ride….
God forbid a 40 story building be found in NYC! It’s called change, and it is inevitable, you can either adapt and go along with it, or you can kill yourself trying to resist, but either way, change is gonna happen.