The promise of a new neighborhood replete with thousands of apartments, shops and new parks in Southern Astoria is no more after a group of developers abandoned their plans for their massive project known as Innovation QNS.
Read MoreFollowing months of negotiations and heated disagreements that sparked a citywide conversation about how elected officials plan to deal with the city’s housing crisis, the City Council’s Land Use Committee unanimously approved the controversial Innovation QNS development slated for Astoria.
Read MoreInnovation QNS was unanimously approved by the City Council’s Subcommittee on Zoning. The controversial project’s developers upped their housing promise but not everyone is on board. Negotiations will likely come down to the wire.
Read MoreWalking through the site proposed for redevelopment, Mayor Eric Adams reaffirmed his support of the controversial Innovation QNS project.
Read MoreThe fight over Innovation QNS finally made its way to City Hall this week, as the City Council began mulling over whether it will approve or reject the largest proposed development in the history of Queens.
Read MoreMayor Eric Adams said he’s in support the effort to build Innovation QNS, the largest redevelopment proposal in the history of Queens that is now facing serious hurdles after the local councilmember said she’d vote against the project last week.
Read MoreInnovation QNS, the largest proposed rezoning in the history of Queens, is in peril after City Councilmember Julie Won told her Council colleagues that she’s opposed to the project and urged them to shoot it down when – or if – it comes up for a vote in the coming weeks.
Read MoreThe developers behind Innovation QNS, a massive, five-block development proposed for Astoria, have committed to making 40 percent of the project’s approximately 2,800 housing units permanently affordable, the Eagle has learned.
Read MoreInnovation QNS has finally found a supporter. The City Planning Commission voted to approve the project, which now heads to the City Council where a “concerned” Julie Won awaits.
Read MoreThe City Planning Commission will vote next week on the controversial Innovation QNS development planned for Astoria.
Read More“For a development proposal this massive in scope, the commitments, or lack thereof, on affordability just weren’t good enough.”
Read MoreAnother blow to Innovation QNS. Queens Borough President Donovan Richards rejected efforts from developers to reshape five blocks in Astoria in an advisory recommendation this week.
Read MoreThe developers behind Innovation QNS, a controversial, five-block neighborhood rezoning in Astoria, told the Queens borough president in writing that they’d make an unspecified number of their affordable units rent for 30 percent of the area median income.
Read MoreThe local Astoria community board denied developers’ request to reshape five-city blocks in the neighborhood, known as Innovation QNS, on Tuesday. The meeting was tense, as was the rally that saw supporters and opponents of the project clash face-to-face beforehand.
Read MoreThe first of many votes to come on the massive Innovation QNS project slated for Astoria did not go developers’ way Wednesday.
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