NYCFC’s stadium plan in Queens has gotten the green light to start a land review. Here's what that means, and what comes next.
The process to start building New York City FC’s stadium in the Willets Point neighborhood of Queens is slowly taking shape. , announced last year, will be part of a sprawling neighborhood being built across the street from Citi Field, home of ’s New York Mets, and where will play its final game of the regular season on Saturday. This week, plans for the stadium took a small step towards city approval, and now begin the long process of a land use review.
The final step in that two-month timeframe would be for the board to submit a written recommendation to the applicant, the City Planning Commission and Richards, the Borough President Richards anticipates he’ll see the proposal “sometime next year,” depending on how long this next phase takes. “In order for the stadium to be built, I have a special power that allows me to de-map a street,” Richards said. “So, if I didn’t de-map the street, then there would be no stadium.
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