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Downtown Jamaica offers the most advantageously positioned and lowest priced major real estate development opportunities in New York City. The 368-block September 2007 rezoning of Jamaica (click here for a map of the zoning changes) has unlocked the Downtown's potential for major real estate development.

With the recent completion of New York's futuristic $3 billion Air Train, which links all JFK Airport terminals directly to a new $350 million terminal in Jamaica, Greater Jamaica Development Corporation is turning Downtown Jamaica into a gateway between America's most important city and its largest airport.

“Transit-oriented development” is the key to turning these unique locations into a hub of easily accessible economic development opportunities. New businesses that move into many areas of Downtown Jamaica can also benefit from generous Empire Zone tax credits, and GJDC can help new and existing businesses gain access to other business incentives.

In the next few years, a major hotel and retail mall, as well as top quality commercial space, will be developed in Downtown Jamaica to support uniquely situated commerce connected to JFK. New housing already underway—and in the planning stages—will support this development. We invite you to join us in this opportune season of growth.

 

 

Current Opportunities

Community Facility RFP:

19,220 SF Available in redeveloped former Queens Family Courthouse Building

click here for more info

 

Local employment group helps SE Queens youth

Queens Chronicle

July 31, 2008 (PDF)

Southeast Queens youth enjoyed a bit of a leg up last Wednesday at the kick-off of the fourth year of a summer business program designed to impart some workplace wisdom and valuable experience, on students who have worked hard to get where they are today ...

Rufus King Park is dustbowl no more

Press of SE Queens

July 25, 2008 (PDF)

The humidity clinging to the air didn't stop children and politicians from christening the new multipurpose field at Rufus King Park in Jamaica.  The synthetic turf is part of a $1.7 million facelift the park received with donated funds provided by Borough President Helen Marshall and Councilmen ...

Shoppers feel Jamaica's lure

Daily News

July 28, 2008 (PDF)

Sonia Kahuratieery boarded a bus in suburban Washington around 5 a.m. so she could devote her Saturday to shopping -- in Jamaica, Queens.  It might sound crazy, but the 500-mile round trip journey isn't uncommon for fans of the retail corridor stretching along Jamaica ...

 

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