This is HUGE news for our neighborhood. It looks like one of the main attractions of Forest Hills, one of the things that brings people to our neighborhood each and every day, may be safe ...
According to DNAInfo:
According to DNAInfo:
The owner of a Forest Hills building housing several restaurants on the neighborhood's “Restaurant Row” has halted his controversial plan to replace it with a new 12-story mixed-use development, according to his lawyer.
"To ALL FoHi Residents! Restaurant Row is NOT going anywhere!," Oleg Kaz, the owner of The Grill wrote on a local Facebook page for business owners. He also posted a photo of the "For Rent" sign displayed at former Uno Pizzeria & Grill which occupied a now-vacant space until it shuttered in 2015.
Yes! Cabana is the one moving into Uno's spot
ReplyDeleteHow do you know?
DeleteMy friend works there- this isn't true.
DeleteThe fact there are finally "For Rent" signs up in the vacant spots after years of them sitting there is a good sign this is for real.
ReplyDeleteComforting (and reassuring) that good ol' community activism still works even in these times.
I would love it if the Uno's spot became a French restaurant, similar to Rouge, which once occupied Aged's current space. I really liked that place!
ReplyDeleteHorrible news. FH needs more high-end, Manhattan-style residential and the replacement building would have had retail space anyways, so it isn't like we would lose any street level vibrancy. Now we just have a suburbanized block, instead of real urban density.
ReplyDeleteHorrible news. Forest Hills needs more Manhattan-style dense luxury residential. It doesn't need more Outer Queens semi-suburban retail strips.
ReplyDeleteAnd the replacement building would actually have more retail than the existing block, so there would be a net increase in street level vibrancy and potential restaurants (not to mention the new residents would fuel more demand for restaurants).
Hopefully the building owner will reconsider.
This is horrible news and Crawdad is right. Restaurant Row is an eyesore and the restaurants there are pretty bad. I would love to see them go.
ReplyDeleteI don't get why everyone is saying this is bad news. We are already getting another residential building next to Boulangerie, an office building on top of the Biu Bello/Party store and I'm sure more pop up development is coming; please be careful what you wish for. FH may become more urban but it was ever meant to be like Manhattan or Downtown Brooklyn. If you want that much overcrowding then move to another part of the city.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone have any information about the possible beer garden opening at Cobblestones?
ReplyDeleteNo clue about Cobblestone. I read that there were looking into it on DNA Info which I assume was where you read it. That whole strip of Queens Blvd as you head towards Union needs some major overhaul. Everything there is so dismal, except Cipollina of course!
DeleteI totally agree, the beer garden would be a great addition to that part of FH.
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