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Hunter's Point South: Aerial View of HPS from East River, Courtesy NYCEDC
It's hard to find affordable housing in NYC, but this project may make it slightly easier for middle-income residents of Queens. Now the City has officially acquired the largely vacant land for such a project - Hunter's Point South, to be situated on 30 acres in Long Island City. It was purchased for $100 million from the state.
This proposed mixed-use, middle-income housing development on the waterfront will include up to 5,000 housing units, 60 percent of which will be affordable to middle income families, making it the largest such developement since the 1970s. In addition, the development will include retail space, community/cultural facilities, school space, parking and a new continuous 11 acre waterfront park. To design the park, the City has engaged landscape architecture firm Thomas Balsley Associates, who have brought on Weiss/Manfredi as co-designers and Arup is responsible for site engineering and project management.
“With the acquisition of the site and the start of the design work,” Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said, “we are setting the stage for the largest investment in permanently affordable housing for our police officers, nurses, teachers and public employees and other middle income New Yorkers.”
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