Hunters Point South Development

The site has industrial roots dating back over a century, when sugar refineries and other manufacturing operations lined this stretch of the Queens waterfront. The New York Daily News later operated a printing plant here. In the early 2000s, the city put forward the area as the proposed location for an Olympic Village as part of New York’s bid for the 2012 Summer Games, a bid that ultimately lost out to London.

After the Olympic bid failed, the city took control of the land, remediated it, and tasked the Department of Housing Preservation and Development with building it out. HPD has since developed the site parcel by parcel through a series of Requests for Proposals, a competitive process in which development teams submit project plans that HPD evaluates against affordability requirements and community priorities before selecting a team to build.

A note on names: Parcel D and Parcel E sit directly across 2nd Street from each other and are frequently confused. Parcel D remains vacant with no stated development plan; Parcel E is the site currently in the RFP development-designation stage. Neither should be confused with the developed lettered parcels (A, B, C, F/G) to the north, which are already built and occupied.