Keeping Tabs on Queens Mega Developments

Over the weekend the New York Daily News tallied up all the mega developments slated for Queens. These planned high rises will dramatically change the Queens skyline over the next 20 years. Here’s the breakdown of what’s to come:

• Rockrose Development’s plans for the tallest residential building in Queens will rise 500 feet high. 43-25 Hunter Street, dubbed “Citibank’s girlfriend,” is expected to open in 2016.
• The Wolkoff family is bringing a pair of 41- and 48-story towers to the 5Pointz site. There will be roughly 1,000 housing units.
• The Willets Point project (rendered above) is expected to bring buildings as tall as 20 stories. The site will someday house 2,500 housing units, although a mega mall is coming first.
• When the Hunters Point South project wraps on the waterfront, it’ll rise as high as 41 stories. It will hold 5,000 apartments, 60 percent of which are affordable.
• The Hallets Point project includes 2,400 apartment units across seven towers. It will rise up to 31 stories, and the project should wrap in 2022.
• Arriving in 2015, the Astoria Cove project (located right near the Hallets Point development) includes five towers (as tall as 30 stories) and 2,400 units.
• The long-in-the-works Flushing Commons development is now underway, it will bring 600 luxury condos, a YMCA and a retail complex to a former Flushing parking lot. ETA: 2021.