The site lies in the new Flushing West District and will be developed as a luxury mixed use
project comprising of a 5-star, 19 story hotel tower, two luxury 19 story residential
apartment buildings and a high end retail podium. The hotel and residential component will
be separate structured, bisected by a road but connected at their podiums by a pedestrian
bridge. The site occupies the very center of the district and celebrates this location by
creating a new plaza that is designed integrate the building’s activities into the pedestrian
life of Flushing while enhancing the upland connection experience between the newly
developed waterfront promenade and Flushing’s Main street.
The building will be clad at its base with stone framed storefronts for both the hotel and residential
podiums and the paving for the plaza and adjacent upland connection will be uniformly stone.
The residential and hotel towers above the podium will be clad in a high efficiency glass and
metal curtain wall. The hotel will comprised of two full services restaurants, an executive club,
health club/spa and a conference center with a 700 seat banquet hall available for private
functions. On top of the podium, between the two residential towers, will be a private terrace
garden and health club for the residents with open views oriented to the distant Manhattan
skyline. The garden space will be landscaped with natural plantings, trees, walkways
and a full service health club for residents.