Real Estate BEYONDLOOKING INTO THE NEW YEAR AND It’s a New Year, a new four-year presidential term and at 46-09 11th Street, by Ekstein Development is slated and Greenpoint. And while Flatiron and downtown are we even survived the end of the world, which turns out for a 4th quarter 2013 completion. I have just closed on still only a Sillicon “alley”, not Valley, companies that was just an end to a 5125-year long calendar. No matter a commercially zoned 3600-square-foot lot near Court offer HQ, or office space specifically catered to technol- how you look at it, the universe seems to be telling us Square (that is dreadful condition after Sandy) at $300 ogy start-ups, like WeWork and Tech Space have opened it’s time for a new beginning. With the administration at per square foot, yet based on a location and amount new locations in Manhattan, and are still on the look- the White House and tax code “compromise” in place, of buildable square feet, I truly believe the investor will out for more. at least we know where we stand for a while, and that eventually do very, very well there. How will this affect real estate in Astoria, LIC and is always a plus for real estate and But how do we keep up the Sunnyside? While higher end, established players business in general. momentum, short of creating are looking in Manhattan, smaller operators are The market for small industrial by david dynak something new or improved? looking in Queens and Brooklyn to cater to those te- space in western Queens and north- David Dynak is a real estate broker From 1990s until recent years, chies who cannot, or do not want to, pay Manhattan west Brooklyn is pretty hot. A vacant, at First Pioneer Properties and the US economy continued to rents. My business goals for properties in Queensan LIC resident. He’s lived in good warehouse, up to 5000 square Western Queens since 1993. receive jolts of life from new in- during the coming year will focus on boosting their feet in size and near public trans- dustries – first computing, then image and value through capital and aesthetic im- portation is almost impossible to find, and those that internet, followed by high-speed internet, then cellular provements, hopefully leading to more tenants and do become available go fast or end up rented at above and recently handheld and touch screen technologies, buyers from Manhattan and outside of NYC being in- market rent price. A 4600-square-foot industrial space all while relying on pro-housing policies and strong terested in moving their business, and maybe even on 44th Avenue off Vernon Blvd that had been vacant for consumerism, partly driven by constantly improving lives, to our neighborhoods. It’s never an easy task about a year had four offers for around $6000 a month, electronics technologies. Are there any breakthrough to convince a landlord to spend more money BEFORE and anything that could be converted into retail, closer technologies, services and products on the horizon that change and demand comes, but if some of my col- to residential or foot traffic clusters is listed at double will help boost Americas recently weakened economic leagues and I have our way, a few more buildings will that price. muscle? In NYC there appears to be continued strength receive enough facelifts to give them a better start into Several serious developers are back in Long Island City, of movie and television production industry, which re- the New Year. They won’t last 5125 years but those ten- looking for lots on which to build, despite the fact that no ceives very favorable treatment from the Mayor’s office ants who rent there just may build technologies that will seller is offering even a decent deal in terms of price per and is growing every year. New studios and production influence how we live, work and play into the foresee- buildable square foot. One recent 59-apartment project companies are taking on more space, most of it in LIC able future. ARTS EVENTS JANUARY Calendar Courtesy of Plaxall Long Island City 2013Plaxall.com LICProperties.com MoMA PS1 Sculpture Museum of the Moving Image Noguchi Museum Now Dig This! Art and Black EXHIBIT• 3-D Lenticular Posters for The Hobbit: Hammer, Chisel, Drill:Center Los Angeles 1960–1980 January 14 - An Unexpected Journey Noguchi’s Studio Practice examining a pioneering group The Art of the Gift Thorin Oakenshield, Gollum, and Galadriel. Friday, February 1, 2013 - 5:00pm - 8:00pmFebruary First FridayWinter Workshop:community in Los Angeles,seventeen of the main characters in the film, including Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf,his death.RETAINERcommissioned lenticular posters from designer Grayson Marshall, featuringMure Japan studios that he split his time between untilNairy Baghramian:cinematic experience. Emblematic of this experience is a series of specially1940s and continuing through the Long Island City andMarch 25, 2013per second to invite the audience to enter Middle-earth for an immersivethrough a handful of studios that he kept beginning in theJanuary 14 -Jackson filmed The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in 3-D at 48 framesThis exhibition will explore Noguchi’s working processFebruary 2013New Line Cinema, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Director PeterSunday, April 28, 2013In Practice: Double LifeIn Behind the Screen Presented with support from Warner Bros. Pictures,Wednesday, October 3, 2012 -March 25, 2013October 27–March 31, 2013On viewOctober 2012—Los Angeles 1960-1980Now Dig This! Art and Blackchronicles the vital legacy ofthe African American artistic with other artists of varied ethnic show how much of a website has loaded. Big Spaceship, a Brooklyn-based programming includes “Center of Attention,” an extended12-2PMfirst Friday of each month, from 5:00 to 8:00PM. First Fridayconnections, and friendshipsPretty Loaded is composed of nearly 50 “preloaders,” animated graphics thatSaturday December 8,The Noguchi Museum offers extended evening hours on theOngoingINSTALLATION • Pretty Loaded—of black artists whose work, backgrounds influenced the SculptureCenter is pleased to creative agency, collected the preloaders on exhibit and created the application conversation around a single work of art at 6:00PM, www.queenscourier.com creative community and artistic announce Winter Workshop: The used to present them. These preloaders were originally produced by agencies followed by Art21 episodes featuring contemporary artists practices that developed in Los Art of the Gift, the first in a series (including Big Spaceship) and independent designers for websites primarily at 7:00PM. First Fridays also feature pay-what-you-wish Angeles during this historic of activity-based family programs promoting films, television shows, and consumer products. Preloaders were admission and a cash bar with wine and beer. period. The exhibition presents led by contemporary artists. initially intended to fill time while visitors waited for websites to load; in Pretty Artist in Residence Weekend | Paul Discoe well over 100 artworks by these Reverberations Loaded, they comprise the entire experience itself. Viewed one after another, Saturday, February 9, 2013 - 11:00am - Sunday,they create a never-ending cycle, directing attention to the preloader as itsFebruary 10, 2013 - 5:00pmPresented through the Inown creative space and to the inventive ways in which designers communicateHammer, Chisel, Drill:In conjunction with the exhibitionPractice programthe simple idea of progress from 0 to 100 percent. Preloaders were pervasiveartists and the friends whoinfluenced and supported themduring this period, in which theNoguchi’s Studio Practice, The Noguchi Museum willSaturday December 15, 1-6PMin the late 1990s and early 2000s, when image- and video-heavy websitesEach of thesehost three Artist-in-Residence Weekends.power of the black community • • january 2013 strengthened nationwide as racial Schedule of performances: created in Macromedia Flash (now Adobe Flash) were delivered over home artists work with similar tools and materials as Noguchi discrimination began to lessen Woody Sullender: 1-6pm Internet connections with speeds limited to 56 kbps. Originally, preloaders did and will demonstrate their process. These residencies as a result of new legislation and R. E. H. Gordon: 1:30, 3:30, were utilitarian, employing progress bars, pie charts, or text, but designers expand the Museum’s Second Sunday series, featuring changing social norms. and 4:30pm soon started working inside the form’s constraints to create playful, engaging, demonstrations throughout the day on Saturday, and an Paul Clipson and Joshua and even suspenseful graphics that hinted at what lay beyond the preloader. artist talk on each of the Sundays at 3:00pm. Churchill: 2:30 and 5:00pm The wide availability of broadband Internet and the waning use of Flash have 38 lic courier rendered the preloader largely an artifact of the past. 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