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PRESENTATION
Proposed ground floor retail and community space
1:18:07
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The presentation highlights the increasing need for ground floor retail uses and passive seating areas in the neighborhood. The project aims to address this need by incorporating retail space on the ground floor. The speaker also mentions a community-led proposal to redesign a section of Maspeth Avenue adjacent to the site.
- There's a growing demand for ground floor retail in the area
- The project includes retail space on the ground floor
- A community-led redesign of nearby Maspeth Avenue is mentioned
Ben Stark
1:18:07
Not only is the building conforming with the the immediate surrounding context, but it's also one that we think will will just greatly enhance the context.
1:18:18
There as more and more people have come into this immediate area, there there has been a real explosion of need for for ground floor retail uses.
1:18:27
An explosion in need for passive seating areas.
1:18:32
You know, we sometimes call you know, the third place in our communities between home and work and places to to just sit and interact and this is also likely why or what we imagine has motivated the local community to propose and really spearhead a redesign of the Maspeth Avenue, this section of Maspeth Avenue between Woodpoint and the tip of the triangle.
1:19:00
Something that we can show on a later slide in a little bit.
1:19:02
Next slide.
1:19:06
Next slide.