The quiet, working class neighborhood of East Elmhurst may get another new residential building, after an affordable developer filed plans for a seven-story development last week. Now applications have surfaced for a six-story mixed-use project at 32-65 107th Street, a block east of last week’s permits.
Not much development happens in East Elmhurst, a sleepy little neighborhood in Queens sandwiched in between LaGuardia Airport, Willets Point, and Flushing Bay. The working class area doesn’t have any subway lines, unless residents want to take a long walk or a bus to the 7 train at Roosevelt Avenue.
Charles Guo, doing business as an anonymous LLC, has filed applications for a four-story, six-unit mixed-use building at 105-05 Northern Boulevard, in East Elmhurst, with direct access to the Q66 bus running between Flushing and Long Island City. The building will measure 6,410 square feet, and includes 1,780 square feet for retail space on the ground and cellar levels. Residential units will begin on the second floor and average 772 square feet, although a fourth-floor unit will also feature a fifth-floor penthouse. Robert Lin’s Flushing-based A&T Engineering is the applicant of record.
The School Construction Authority has proposed constructing a new 33,400-square-foot, 600-seat middle school at 111-16 Astoria Boulevard, in East Elmhurst, according to DNAinfo. The lot is currently vacant and the city has not yet acquired the property. The new school would help overcrowding issues at other neighboring schools in the district. Comments on the proposal can be made through November 23rd.
Long Island City-based Crescent Street Construction Corp. has filed applications for a five-story, 10-unit residential building at 104-22 Astoria Boulevard, in East Elmhurst, a few minutes from La Guardia Airport. The building will total 7,550 square feet, and units will probably be rentals, averaging 755 square feet. Long Island-based Anthony Hatziioannou is the applicant of record, and demolition permits were filed for the existing 2.5-story structure this past summer.
