Queens Gazette

Plans Scrapped For Hotel At Western Beef Site





The developer of a massive hotel at the site of a former Western Beef Supermarket in Long Island City has scrapped plans for the project.

The site at the northwest corner of Northern Boulevard and Steinway Street includes the former supermarket property and four adjacent parcels formerly controlled by the food retailer. JMH Development leased the Western Beef supermarket and the four parcels from Western Beef in 2014 for $19.6 million.  .

Plans for the hotel included 119,722-sauare-feet of commercial space, a bar and a breakfast room on the ground floor of the 60-foot-tall building, along woth14 hotel rooms in the cellar level of the hotel, 28 rooms on the ground floor, 67 room on the second floor, 66 rooms on each of the third and fourth floors, and 49 rooms on the fifth floor, for a total of. 289 rooms.

Plans for the new development feature a six-story rental building with 140 residential units, 40,000-square-feet of retail and an undetermined number of indoor parking spaces.

The developers “re-thought” plans for the hotel and decided to scrap the project due to an overabundance on similar hotels located in Manhattan and Long Island City, according to a spokesperson for JMH Development.

As reported by the Gazette in September 2017, the hotel was designed to be dual branded, with the largest portion operating under the Homewood Suites brand and the remainder operating under the Hampton Inn brand.

The site at 36-20 Steinway Street is located in the Dutch Kills section of Long Island City, near the 36th Street M/R subway lines and the Q101 bus line. It is within walking distance to the 31st Street elevated subway line and the Queens Plaza transportation hub.

Plans for the new building are in the design phase, the JMH spokesperson said. Construction is expected to begin in late summer. An expected completion date has been announced.

 

 

 

 



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