Art Storage Facility to Rise in Ravenswood
A company called Uovo has broken ground on a state-of-the-art storage facility for fine art at the foot of the Queensboro Bridge in Astoria Ravenswood. The address for Department of Buildings purposes is 41-54 22nd Street. According to Uovo’s website, the 270,000-square-foot building will have “unsurpassed” temperature and humidity controls. And to avoid any Hurricane…
A company called Uovo has broken ground on a state-of-the-art storage facility for fine art at the foot of the Queensboro Bridge in Astoria Ravenswood. The address for Department of Buildings purposes is 41-54 22nd Street. According to Uovo’s website, the 270,000-square-foot building will have “unsurpassed” temperature and humidity controls. And to avoid any Hurricane Sandy-like threat, the ground floor will be more than 16 feet above sea level. The company is targeting an opening in the fall of 2014. GMAP
The location is most definitely not Astoria.
Long Island City, maybe–Dutch Kills, yes –maybe even Sunnyside in some people’s mind, but definitely not Astoria.