Real Estate
Vacant Broadway Storefronts To Become Apartment Building: Permit
A 6-story, 92-unit apartment complex is slated to be built on the corner of Broadway and 29th Street — where Sac's Place was once located.
ASTORIA, QUEENS — A developer is planning to turn a strip of long-vacant storefronts in Astoria into an apartment building, permits show.
Sac's Place, Joy Dental, and Lanzee Department store were once located on the corner of Broadway and 29th Street. Now, that building is slated to become a 92-unit, 6-story apartment complex, with commercial space and 46 parking spots, according to plans filed with the Department of Buildings on Friday, Dec. 3rd.
Demolition permits were first filed for the building, addressed as 25-33 Broadway or 31-84 29th Street, in Sept., along with plans to tear down an adjacent building located at 25-21 Broadway.
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Together, the two buildings span more than half the block between 29th and Crescent streets, and used to have eight storefronts.
All of those businesses, however, shuttered during the past few years and weren't replaced with new storefronts, prompting concerns about real estate speculation from neighbors, Patch reported.
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"My guess is that the landlord did not renew any leases because they will probably build an apartment building in that location," one neighbor told Patch in April, when Fatima's Halal Kitchen, a beloved Chinese restaurant formerly located at 25-25 Broadway, closed after its lease wasn't renewed.
It now appears that neighbor's guess is one step closer to becoming a reality — much to the chagrin of some locals.
"This is terrible and we do not need another high rise in the neighborhood," wrote one neighbor on Facebook, after the news of Fatima's closing was announced in April. "Developers and big corporations keep destroying every great neighborhood in NYC," another lamented.
George Tsilogiannis is named as the owner of both 25-33 Broadway — where the new apartment building is slated to be built — and 25-21 Broadway, which remains slated for demolition.
No new building applications have been filed for 25-21 Broadway as of Monday, Dec. 6th.
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