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Work begins at Tishman Speyer’s Long Island City project

March 30, 2015
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Roughly month after renderings were released at Tishman Speyer’s Long Island City project at 28-34 Jackson Avenue, 28-10 Jackson Avenue and 30-02 Queens Boulevard sites, construction crews began working the three large lots.1 As you can see in the photos below, the work is in the exacavation stage, pursuant to a series of permits that were approved by the Department of Buildings on Feb. 26.2 By 2018, there will be three large residential builds with ground floor retail.

Here are more details of the project from Queens Brownstoner:3

The project includes three towers: 28-34 Jackson Avenue, holding 658 units and 6,000 square feet of retail space, 28-10 Jackson Avenue, with 683 units and 3,000 square feet of retail space, and 30-02 Queens Boulevard, with 448 apartments and 6,500 square feet of retail. (1,789 apartments and 1.2 million square feet of new development in total!)