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City’s tallest warehouse could be coming to Queens

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The Goodman Group, an Australian company that owns what’s billed as the largest logistics center in the world is coming to Long Island City, where it could develop the city’s tallest warehouse.

Design sketches in the marketing materials show a building of nearly 700,000 square feet across five above-ground floors. Several of those floors, though, are double-height. So from the street, the building would appear to be as tall as roughly an 11-story office building.

(source: therealdeal.com, picture: Juan Carmy)

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The state of Long Island City real estate, one year after Amazon

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Did Amazon change Long Island City real estate? 

Short answer: not really. – When Amazon announced its plans to bring part of its second North American headquarters to Long Island City, there was much hand-wringing about what the tech giant would do ...

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Amazon takes new offices in Hudson Yards a year after leaving LIC

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Amazon has inked a lease in midtown Manhattan less than a year after abruptly withdrawing from plans to bring half of its second North American headquarters to Queens, according to the the Seattle-based company.

The e-commerce giant has signed a lease for 335,000 square feet in the Hudson Yards where it will have more than 1,500 employees.
The arrangement is Amazon’s largest expansion in New York City since the company abandoned plans to situate half of its second headquarters in ...

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Skyline Tower The Tallest Skyscraper outside Manhattan

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Located at 23-15 44th Drive (Long Island City), the residential skyscraper will soon stand 778 feet tall, making it the tallest building in New York outside of Manhattan.

Once completed, the building will be clad in 358,538 square feet of glass, equivalent to a span of over six football fields.

The building broke a “theoretical” record for having the highest projected sellout in Queens at $1.067 billion. Completion is expected next year.
(source: nyyimby & nycurbed)
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Hunters Point Library finally opens to the public

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After two decades of planning and years of delays, the Hunters Point Library is finally opening in Long Island City

This new branch of the Queens Public Library was first proposed for the neighborhood in 1999, but it took more than 10 years for concrete plans to materialize.

The road here was bumpy, to put it lightly—and when all was said and done, the total cost of the library was more than $40 million. 

Dennis ...

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