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PRESENTATION
Introduction and overview of the Queen's Future/Metropolitan Park proposal
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This chapter introduces the Queen's Future/Metropolitan Park proposal, a project to transform Citi Field's parking lots into a dynamic sports and entertainment district. The presentation outlines the ULURP application, project goals, and key features of the development.
- The project aims to create a 25-acre park, a world-class hotel with a casino, and improved transportation infrastructure.
- The development team includes Steve Cohen (Mets owner), Hard Rock International, and other partners.
- The proposal is seeking one of three downstate gaming licenses approved by New York State voters in 2013.
Julissa Ferreras-Copeland
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Thank you, Chair Riley.
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I'm Julissa Fernandez Copeland.
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Good morning, Chair Riley, Councilmember Moya, Councilmember Schulman, and Councilmember Salam.
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I'm Julissa Fernandez Copeland representing Queen's Future LLC.
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I'm joined by my colleagues, Greg Pascarelli of SHOP Architects, David Karnovsky from Fried Frank and Michael Sully Sullivan to represent our project Metropolitan Park along with the necessary mapping actions.
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Our ULURP application next slide.
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Our ULURP application seeks to amend the city and zoning maps to transform city fields, asphalt parking lots into a dynamic sports and entertainment district, enabling the creation of a new 25 acre New York City park.
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In 2013, New York State voters approved issuing these downstate gaming facilities.
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Metropolitan Park is seeking one of these licenses, which is essential to advancing our project.
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We are committed to delivering on what the community has asked for and needs.
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Good paying jobs, a world class hotel with a casino and live music venue, and improved transportation with climate resilient infrastructure all anchored by a 25 acre park.
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With gaming as our economic engine, we bring together sports and entertainment as part of an area already featuring the New York Mets, USTA, NYCFC to create New York's next great destination.
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The gaming license process includes today's ULURP action, the Community Advisory Committee, as referred to as the CAC, and the location citing board, and a final approval from the Gaming Commission, as the chair mentioned in his opening testimony.
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As mentioned earlier, Queen's Future is a partnership between Steve Cohen, owner of the New York Mets, Jim Allen, Chairman and CEO of Hard Rock International, Cheryl McKissick of McKissick and McKissick and Bill Thompson and Harry Cisneros of Cybert.
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We assembled a New York based design and development team to ensure that Metropolitan Park is authentically New York in both its design and its impact.
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Our site is city field surrounding parking lots in Queens highlighted on this map in yellow.
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It is a prime location near LaGuardia Airport, public transportation, major sports venues and cultural landmarks, making it ideal for its site and for this transformation.
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This land is city owned and leased under a ninety nine year commercial agreement with Metz Owner Steve Cohen until 02/2005.
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Right now, it is asphalt used only for surface parking.
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The community agrees that this space is underutilized, uninviting, and deserving of transformation into something more beneficial to the residents of Queens and all of New Yorkers.
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