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criminal possession of a
controlled substance.
According to police, at
11:57 a.m. on April 8, police
responded to a 911 call regarding
a man shot in the
vicinity of 88th Street and
37th Avenue. Upon their arrival,
officers from the 115th
Precinct found 31-year-old
Jeffrey Arroyo with a gunshot
wound to his chest.
EMS rushed to the scene
and took Arroyo to NYC
Health and Hospitals/
Elmhurst, where he was
pronounced dead.
Shortly afterward, police
took Londono, who was
inside of 37-14 88th St., in
for questioning. Police believe
that the shooting may
have been narcotics-related,
however they are still
investigating the motive.
Londono was ultimately
arrested on April 9 and is
awaiting arraignment.
Reach reporter Emily
Davenport by e-mail at
edavenport@qns.com or by
phone at (718) 224-5863 ext.
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Target
fact coming to the Rentar
Plaza because I think that
would be a great use of the
space and my constituents
would benefit from it,”
Holden said. “I would also
welcome other stores from
Queens Place, if that mall
ends up closing, to help fill
the void at Rentar Plaza and
add value to it once again.”
A spokesman for Cushman
& Wakefield, who
operate Queens Place, declined
to comment.
Rentar has been though
at least three rounds with
Community Board 5 to
make major changes to
their property to attract
new retailers after Toys R
Us and Kmart closed, leaving
a massive vacancies in
their space.
Rentar was attempting
to redeem the situation by
subdividing the 190,000 total
square feet of space as
the trend continues of bigbox
retailers downsizing
and expand their loading
bay access.
Two additional bays
Charged
will need to be added to the
eight already on the south
end of the property.
The new truck entrance
will still face Metropolitan
Avenue, but 18-wheelers
will pull straight into a
zone to be built within the
property 4 feet below street
level and protected by a retaining
wall to allow trucks
to back in without effecting
traffic on busy street and
without putting pedestrians
going to and from the
M train at risk.
CB5 found this proposal
much more agreeable at
their February meeting,
placating concerns at previous
meetings regarding
earlier plans members believed
put pedestrians at
risk.
In January, local residents
created a Change.org
petition calling on Target
to take Rentar Plaza into
consideration.
Developers Sun Equity
and Heskel Group have
been working for over a
year to install a TargetExpress
at 82nd Street just
south of Roosevelt Avenue,
not too far away from the
Queens Place Target.
But activists from
Queens Neighborhoods
United have put up staunch
opposition to the effort the
develop the space claiming
that it would gentrify the
area by putting mom-andpop
shops out of business.
The fight against the
Target location has even
gone to the state Supreme
Court on the grounds that
zoning does not allow for
anything other than small
vendors.
Austin Street and 70th
Street in Forest Hills is
also home to one of the
smaller TargetExpress locations.
Max Parrott contributed
to this report.
Reach reporter Mark
Hallum by e-mail at mhallum@
schnepsmedia.com or
by phone at (718) 260–4564.
The question is up in the air as to whether Target’s Elmhurst store will relocate after it was
announced at the Community Board 4 meeting the corporation has its eye on space in Middle
Village. File photo
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