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AMNY | 11.28.2022
Op-ed | Willets Point — A Vibrant New Neighborhood in Queens
It’s time to create a New York City where working New Yorkers can have safe, affordable homes, find well-paying jobs, send their children to good schools, and live close to public transportation so that they don’t have to spend hours commuting.
Willets Point in Queens was filled with auto repair shops, prone to flooding and lacked infrastructure. Today, it offers our city a once-in-a-generation opportunity to create a vibrant, thriving neighborhood from scratch.
News & Press
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Crain’s | 04.14.2023
NYCFC selects design and construction team for new Willets Point soccer stadium
The New York City Football Club has tapped Turner Construction Co. and HOK to build and design its new soccer stadium, the team announced Friday morning. NYCFC, which currently plays its home games at Yankee Stadium, will get a 25,000-seat stadium as one of the centerpieces of the ambitious plan to transform the Willets Point neighborhood in Queens. The plan, announced late last year, will also include 2,500 affordable housing units across seven buildings, a 250-room hotel and a 650-seat public school.
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Commercial Observer | 04.14.2023
NYCFC Picks HOK and Turner Construction to Build Queens Stadium
New York City Football Club (NYCFC) tapped architecture firm HOK and general contractor Turner Construction Company to build its long-awaited soccer stadium in Willets Point, Queens, NYCFC announced Friday.
The duo will design and build the $780 million, 25,000-seat stadium at the center of a mixed-use development that’s also due to include housing, a public school and retail, according to NYCFC.
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El Diario NY | 11.16.2022
La Ciudad de Nueva York anuncia millonario plan de transformación para Willets Point, en Queens
La comunidad de Willets Point, ubicada detrás del estadio de béisbol de los Mets, adentrada por la popular Avenida Roosevelt antes de llegar a Main Street, en Flushing, lleva casi 20 años esperando a que las autoridades municipales echen a andar un plan de rediseño de la antigua zona neoyorquina que antes estaba repleta de talleres de mecánica, en el condado de Queens.
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Spectrum News NY1 | 11.17.2022
NYCFC, NYC officials discuss ‘once-in-a-generation’ deal to bring soccer stadium to Queens
New York City is moving forward with a “once-in-a-generation opportunity” to bring a new soccer stadium to Queens by 2027.
“This is an opportunity – a once-in-a-generation opportunity – to build a whole new neighborhood,” Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer told Pat Kiernan Thursday morning.
PRESS RELEASE
04.05.2023
NEWS RECAP: Public scoping hearing on environmental review process for transformation of Willets Point into generational affordable housing project and privately-financed Major League Soccer Stadium
New York City Mayor’s Office of Environmental Coordination hosted a virtual public scoping hearing on the Draft Scope for the proposed Willets Point Phase 2 Development within approximately 17 acres of the Special Willets Point District in Queens Community District 7.
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New York Daily News | 11.16.2022
Why the Willets Point development is a
very big deal
This time, at a long-challenged site in Queens, we’re doing things the right way. The proposal announced this week by Mayor Adams and Councilman Francisco Moya to fully activate the area known as Willets Point next to Citi Field with a new, privately funded soccer-specific stadium for New York City Football Club, is much more than just a stadium.
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New York Buildings Congress | 03.15.2023
2023 Transit-Oriented Development Report
The Willets Point Transit-Oriented Development scored 9.2 in the annual report. The Mets-Willets Point Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) stop was ranked second for TOD opportunity out of all New York State stations, with exceptionally high job accessibility (3,379,895 within 60 minutes) and exceptionally low residential density (3.3 du/ac).
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ABC 7 | 11.16.2022
New York City Football Club stadium to be built in Queens for $780M
The New York City Football Club will finally have a home stadium of its own after bringing the city its first professional championship in a decade.
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PIX 11 | 11.16.2022
NYC’s first pro soccer stadium to be built in Willets Point, Queens
A stadium for the world’s most popular sport is coming to New York City’s most diverse borough.
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New York Post | 11.16.2022
Photos of NYCFC’s new 25,000-seat stadium in Queens unveiled
New York City mayor Eric Adams officially announced on Wednesday that a new stadium for the New York City Football Club will be erected in Willets Point, Queens near Citi Field and Flushing Meadows.
PRESS RELEASE
11.16.2022
Mayor Adams Unveils Vision for Willets Point Transformation
As Part of Private-Public Partnership, 2021 MLS Cup Champions NYCFC Will Fully Finance and Build New York’s First Professional Soccer-Specific Stadium
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The New York Times | 11.15.2022
New York City Reaches Deal to Build Soccer Stadium in Queens
The New York City Football Club will pay roughly $780 million to build the stadium in Willets Point in Queens as part of a project that will include housing and a hotel.
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Crain’s | 11.16.2022
Here’s what the next phase of the massive Willets Point project will look like
The city released renderings Wednesday for the next phase of the transformative Willets Point redevelopment project, highlighted by a new 25,000-seat soccer stadium for the New York City Football Club.
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New York Daily News | 11.17.2022
Ya gotta believe: In praise of a new development planned for Willets Point
For decades, 23 precious acres a baseball’s throw from Citi Field sat criminally underutilized, surrendered to flooded potholes and auto repair shops and vacant lots. Now, finally, a city where the cost of living is soaring out of the park will do something truly useful with the Queens waterfront tract: build housing, and lots of it — 2,500 units, all affordable, mostly at levels genuinely within reach for low- and middle-income families.
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New York Daily News | 11.17.2022
Why the Willets Point development is a very big deal
We’ve all heard the promise many times before: “If you build it, they will come.” And I’m not talking about that classic 80s movie set in a Midwestern cornfield.
The real question is, in the midst of a decades-long affordable housing crisis, what are we building and who are we building it for?
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New York Post | 11.16.2022
Mayor Adams’ Willets Point development is a shot in the arm for Queens, the city
Mayor Eric Adams announced Wednesday a plan to build 2,500 new units of housing, a 250-bed hotel and a $780 million, 25,000-seat soccer stadium for the New York City FC near Citi Field in Willets Point, Queens. That’s a great deal for the Big Apple.