The Durst Organization has opened a new 100-percent affordable housing property at 3-24 27th Avenue in Astoria, Queens. Designed by Dattner Architects, the 14-story building is located within the Durst Organization’s Halletts Point mega-development, which will eventually comprise seven buildings, 1,920 market rate apartments, and 480 affordable housing units along the East River waterfront.
Permits have been filed for a five-story residential building at 14-27 28th Avenue in Astoria, Queens. Located between 21st Street and Astoria Boulevard, the interior lot is near the Astoria Boulevard subway station, serviced by the N and W trains. Refik Radoncic of Astrosquare LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Façade installation is progressing on Wildflower Studios, a seven-story film production studio at 35-15 19th Avenue in Astoria, Queens. Designed by Bjarke Ingels Group and developed by Wildflower LTD, a venture backed by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro, and his son Raphael De Niro, the 145-foot-tall structure will yield 775,042 square feet with sound stages, 11 studio modules, production support areas, public and private offices, a fitness center, multiple lounges, two open-air terraces, and a 20-foot-wide public waterfront esplanade along Luyster Creek. Leeding Builders Group is the general contractor for the $600 million project, which is being built on a 229,000-square-foot plot by the intersection of 19th Avenue and 38th Street, next to the Steinway & Sons piano warehouse.
Reality House, a Queens-based substance abuse and HIV treatment provider, will soon open its second facility at 31-75 23rd Street in Astoria, Queens. The new facility will comprise 7,000 square feet on the fourth floor of the building and will support the organization’s outpatient services and administrative functions.
Construction has reached street level at 44-01 Northern Boulevard, the site of a 13-story residential building in Astoria, Queens. Located on a triangular parcel bordered by Northern Boulevard and 44th Street, the building will contain a mix of rental apartments, retail space, and a parking garage.
