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Amazon eyes Maspeth
for distribution center
Amazon is eyeing a huge space in the shadows of the new K-Bridge in Maspeth.
BY BILL PARRY
Nothing happens
along Newtown Creek
without Mitch Waxman
knowing about it first,
so he was not surprised
to see Crain’s report
that Amazon was eyeing
an industrial property
in Maspeth for a new
distribution facility.
As the historian for the
Newtown Creek Alliance,
Waxman walks along the
Queens and Brooklyn
shores and updates his
Newtown Pentacle website
with the daily chronicles
of western Queens as
it transforms under
over-development.
He posted photos of his
discovery on his website
July 24, nearly a week
before the Crain’s report.
“I was on my way to
a meeting when I came
across heavy demolition
going on over on Grand
Avenue,” Waxman said. “I
noticed the old Cascades
Containerboard factory
was being torn down
by crews from Breeze
Demolition so I started
asking questions.”
Waxman learned that
54-15, 55-15 and 56-19
Courtesy of Mitch Waxman/Newtown Pentacle
Grand Ave. were recently
acquired by a Californiabased
company
called LBA Realty for
$72 million.
The deal involves a
partnership with another
realty company, RXR,
to build a four-story
warehouse large that
would be ideal for the
“last mile” of logistics of
an e-commerce company.
“Yeah it’s only four
stories tall but that thing
is going to be massive,
massive, massive,”
Waxman said. “It’s going
to be large enough that
heavy trucks will be able
to drive around inside
the facility, so that the
first floor would have
to be at least 30 feet tall.
As an environmentalist
with the Newtown Creek
Alliance this set off all
kinds of alarm bells with
me. This will be a gigantic
magnification of truck
traffic in residential
areas that are already
very sensitive to heavy
truck traffic.”
QNS reached out to
Amazon and is awaiting
a response. Amazon
scuttled its plan to build
to build an HQ2 campus
in Long Island City,
and create more than
25,000 high-paying jobs,
in February.
Now the e-commerce
giant is reportedly
scouting a million square
feet of space in Brooklyn’s
Industry City for a new
storage and shipping
facility in Sunset Park.
Amazon may be looking
to lease the entire Lord
& Taylor building in
Midtown, according
to Crain’s.
Meanwhile, City
Councilman Robert
Holden is taking a waitand
see approach, saying
that he’ll keep an eye on
the site.
“If true, this building
sounds monstrous, and
I fear that hundreds
of additional trucks
would descend on an
already clogged area
with infrastructure that
can nearly handle it,”
Holden said. “But we
have to wait to learn more
details about how many
jobs something like this
would bring to the area,
along with exactly how
traffic would be dealt
with, before assuming
the worst.”