14 The Courier sun • AUGUST 21, 2014 for breaking news visit www.couriersun.com Rendering reveals seven-story apartment building coming to Jamaica Rendering courtesy TCX Development TCX Development’s seven-story residential building is ahead of the jump of growth due for Jamaica, according to a representative for the firm. By Liam La Guerre lguerre@queenscourier.com/@LiamLaGuerre Development in Jamaica is about to pick up and bring big changes to the New York City real estate scene, according to a firm building new apartments in the area. TCX Development, a firm based in Great Neck, is working on a seven-story, 21-unit apartment building on Hillside Avenue near 191st Street. TCX officials believe they are ahead of the wave of development they feel is coming to the neighborhood because of its zoning, extensive public transportation network and massive downtown shopping district. “We really believe in this area. We’ve done a lot of research and we are sure that this area is due for a lot of development soon,” said Joshua Asherian of TCX Development. “The zoning is already there and the retail is already there. It’s only a matter of time.” TCX released renderings for the project last week, as New York YIMBY revealed, and the building is expected to be completed in 2015. The exterior of the 15,000-square-foot building will be designed with black brick and metal siding with large windows. The interior will have a modern finish with key card access. There will also be 11 enclosed parking spots. The building will mostly be comprised of onebedroom apartments for $1,600 a month, which Asherian said will be attractive compared to Brooklyn and Manhattan prices for comparable rooms. There will also be one three-bedroom penthouse. Photo courtesy St. John’s Athletic Communications The St. John’s women’s basketball team will travel to Europe for sightseeing and pre-season games. SJU women’s basketball team playing in Europe By Liam La Guerre lguerre@queenscourier.com/@LiamLaGuerre The Lady Johnnies are going international. Following in the footsteps of the St. John’s men’s basketball team last summer, the women’s basketball team will travel through Italy and Spain for pre-season games in the program’s first experience traveling abroad. The Red Storm will play four games during the journey from Aug. 16 through Aug. 27, against the Dutch National Team, Adriatic Sea Sirens, Distrito Olimpico Madrid and CB Barcelona Saint Feliuenc. Mixed into the game schedule are sightseeing and service trips to famous spots such as the Coliseum and the Pantheon. “This opportunity is more about the bigger picture for our players,” head coach Joe Tartamella said. “We’ll have a chance to visit our campus in Rome and be able to do some community service projects.” The European contests will be the first time the Johnnies play against other teams since having lost their senior leaders, guards Eugeneia McPherson and Briana Brown. “We’ve had about 10 practices and they’ve probably practiced a lot more together, so it will be a good test for us,” Tartarmella said. Last season, the Johnnies finished with an overall record of 23-11 and defeated the University of Southern California in the opening round of the NCAA tournament. But the team lost to the University of Tennessee, 67-51, in the second round of the national tournament. This year the team has added four freshmen, who are expected to see minutes from the pre-season journey. Team members admit that they are still in need of fine-tuning before the season starts and they hope the trip will do just that. “We’re still trying to put the pieces together, but I think it gives us a better scale overall of where we are going to be in October,” junior guard Danaejah Grant said. “It gives us a jump-start on the other teams that don’t have this same opportunity. I think ultimately it puts us ahead of everyone else.”
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