The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) is taking a key step in advancing the vision for the Hunter’s Point South neighborhood in Queens. Decades in the making, yet always adapting to New Yorkers’ most pressing needs, the development strategy will transform the sixth vacant site in this neighborhood (known as “Parcel E”) into a new multi-building, mixed-use development with desperately needed affordable homes, as well as market rate homes, commercial space, community facility space, and a publicly accessible open space.
HPD announced the release of a competitive Request for Proposals (RFP) to bring this plan to life. Long awaited and highly anticipated, this project will build on the progress that the City has made in transforming Hunter’s Point South into a flourishing and sustainable mixed-use, mixed-income community. This will be the sixth parcel developed in Hunter’s Point South as part of a larger plan that has already created over 3,000 new homes, community amenities, two schools, and a beloved 11-acre waterfront park. Responding to an ever-present affordability crisis, HPD is requiring that this forthcoming project provide deeper levels of affordability and more affordable homes compared to previous phases, including at least one 100 percent affordable building.
“This administration understands that the key to solving the housing crisis is to build more mixed-income housing,” said Deputy Mayor for Housing, Economic Development, and Workforce Adolfo Carrión Jr. “The Hunter’s Point South Request-for-Proposals will transform a city-owned lot into an asset for Long Island City, delivering hundreds of affordable and market rate homes, along with important amenities that will support the neighborhood. We look forward to receiving innovative proposals that will deliver for Long Island City.”
"We are thrilled to continue pushing forward this truly groundbreaking effort in Hunter's Point South, which has been decades in the making," said Acting Commissioner Ahmed Tigani. "With each phase of this project, HPD has worked with the community to hear their needs and adapt plans to meet community goals. New Yorkers are depending on us to make more progress more quickly than ever before and moving forward with the next phase of redeveloping Hunter’s Point South is vitally important to those efforts. We are thrilled to begin the process of soliciting proposals for the site’s future development. This is an exciting opportunity to transform a long-vacant lot into a mixed-use project that provides much-needed housing that serves the broader needs of the community." (Full story on www.thesouthasiantimes.info)
