The future of Innovation QNS, an enormous five-block development proposed for Astoria, grew murkier Thursday after the Queens borough president told the project’s developers they don’t have his support, the Eagle has learned.
Richards, reviewing the project as part of the city’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, issued his formal – and advisory – recommendation on Innovation QNS less than an hour before his mandated deadline, urging the city to shoot down what amounts to the largest development project proposed for the borough in at least a decade.
The lack of approval from the borough president marks the second time in two months Innovation QNS, which would bring in over a dozen new buildings, nearly 3,000 apartments, offices, community, retail and open spaces to a corner of southeast Astoria if built, has been rejected by a local government body.
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