As the Asian population grows in Elmhurst, developers in nearby Flushing have begun to cater to the neighborhood’s burgeoning Chinatown along Broadway. Right next to Queens Place Mall at 88-08 Justice Avenue, one builder has filed plans for a 20-story apartment building with community space on the lower floors.
Gouzhong Lin, doing business as 145-36 Realty LLC, has filed applications for a seven-story, 54-unit mixed-use building spanning the lots 145-34 – 145-42 34th Avenue, in Linden Hill (east of Downtown Flushing). The building will measure 47,515 square feet, which includes 9,850 square feet of medical offices on the bottom two floors.
The developer of two other Flushing megaprojects is planning a third 13-story apartment tower on the site of Flushing Mall, which shuttered in January after 15 years as one of the neighborhood’s busiest food courts and commercial hubs.
Two houses in Eastern Queens, at 61-42 172nd Street in Utopia and 150-21 28th Avenue in Linden Hill, will be replaced by two-story apartment buildings.
Per Crain’s Business, the City has picked Monadnock Development to develop a mid-rise 208-unit all-affordable mixed-use building at the vacant lot of 133-45 41st Avenue, in Downtown Flushing; the de Blasio administration has made an effort to redevelop that specific underutilized lot. The project is being dubbed One Flushing, and retail and community space is planned for the ground floor; Bernheimer Architecture is designing.
