NEW YORK CITY-Following up the 2008 rezoning of Hunter’s Point South in Queens, the Bloomberg administration on Monday issued RFPs for the first phase of redevelopment there. It calls for 1,000 new housing units, at least 600 of which will be affordable for middle-income renters.
Reportedly the largest affordable housing development in the city since the early 1970s, when Co-op City in the Bronx and Starrett City in Brooklyn were completed, the 1,000 new units will be built on a 56,800-square-foot parcel on formerly industrial land along the Queens waterfront. It’s also the largest affordable development in the history of the Bloomberg administration’s New Housing Marketplace Plan, which seeks to create or preserve 1650,000 units of affordable housing.
“It has been decades since New York has seen a project of this scale with the aim of creating a haven of affordability for our hardworking families – the teachers, health care workers, veterans, municipal employees, and first-responders who are the irreplaceable backbone of our city,” says Rafael Cestero, commissioner of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, in a statement.
The city has had plans for Hunter’s Point South since at least the 1980s. At that time, it was to be the third and fourth phases of the planned Queens West development, and later was proposed as the site for a stadium complex in the city’s bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games.
Last year, the city bought the entire 30-acre Hunter’s Point site from the Empire State Development Corp. and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for $100 million. It’s planned ultimately to hold 5,000 new units of housing, with 3,000 set aside as affordable for moderate- and middle-income families. There will also be more than 11 acres of landscaped waterfront parkland, according to the Bloomberg administration.
In addition to the residential component, plans for the site’s first phase call for approximately 22,000 gross square feet of new commercial space, 144 parking spaces and a new 1,100 seat intermediate school/high school. The RFP submission period runs through Sept. 1, 2010. For more information and to obtain a copy of the RFP, interested readers should click here.
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Paul Bubny
Paul Bubny is managing editor of Real Estate Forum and GlobeSt.com. He has been reporting on business since 1988 and on commercial real estate since 2007. He is based at ALM Real Estate Media Group's offices in New York City.
