Mixed-use project with 34 market-rate apartments will replace auto parts store in Flushing. On June 29, 2011, the City Council approved Mark Solow’s rezoning proposal for three lots at the northeast corner of Northern Boulevard and Prince Street in Flushing, Queens. The approval rezoned the three lots from  M1-1 to R6 with a C2-2 commercial overlay. Solow requested the rezoning in order to redevelop his property at 135-05 Northern Boulevard. The site is occupied by the Crown Auto Parts store, which Solow plans to demolish and replace with a 52,570 sq.ft. mixed-use building.

Solow’s seven-story project will include 34 market-rate apartments, 7,100 sq.ft. of ground floor retail space, 9,560 sq.ft. of community facility space on the second floor, and a 62-space underground parking facility. The project will also include 3,000 sq.ft. of landscaped outdoor space on the roof of the extended second floor. The area to the west of the project site is zoned M1-1 and developed with low-rise commercial buildings and warehouses. To the east, the area is zoned R6/C2-2 and is developed with a mix of residential, commercial, and community facility space.

No one opposed the project at the City Planning Commission’s hearing on May 25, and the Commission unanimously approved the proposal. The Commission noted that that it recently approved an eleven-story mixed-use project to the north of the site, and that the BSA in 2005 approved a seventeen-story residential building nearby at 135-35 Northern Boulevard. 8 CityLand 74 (June 15, 2011). (read more…)

Owner would replace Northern Boulevard auto-parts store with seven-story mixed-use development. On May 25, 2011, the City Planning Commission approved Mark Solow’s proposal to facilitate the construction of a 52,570 sq.ft. mixed-use development at 135-05 Northern Boulevard in Flushing, Queens. The proposal would rezone three lots currently occupied by Solow’s Crown Auto Parts store at the northeast corner of Northern Boulevard and Prince Street from M1-1 to R6 with a C2-2 commercial overlay. The majority of the properties northeast of the site are zoned R6/C2-2 and developed with a mix of retail, community facility, and residential uses. Nearby properties along Prince Street are zoned M1-1 and are developed with low-rise commercial buildings and warehouses.

Solow plans to replace his auto-parts store with a seven-story mixed-use project. The building would provide 34 market-rate apartments, ground floor retail space fronting Northern Boulevard, community facility space, and a landscaped outdoor area on a second-floor roof at the rear of the building. The project would include a 62-space underground parking garage which would be accessible from Prince Street. (read more…)