Silvercup Studios will be the star of the evening for Thursday’s Community Board 2 monthly meeting.
The board will vote on renewing the film studio’s special permits for its proposed Silvercup West development, a planned $1 billion expansion of Silvercup Studios in Long Island City.
The permits are for various design elements in the project, including a proposed 1,400-space parking garage, which was granted three years ago, but has expired since that time.
The Silvercup West plan first debuted about eight years ago with tons of media coverage. The project includes eight new soundstage studios as part of a larger 2.2 million-square-foot complex containing an office tower, high-rise apartment towers with 1,000 residences, retail space, a catering hall and cultural space.
The community board, the borough president, City Planning and the City Council all gave their blessings for the land use case of the project in 2006, and it was supposed to be completed by 2010, according to published reports.
However, the project is being held up by New York Power Authority (NYPA) generators on the site, which need to be decommissioned and removed. The generators, which have 150-foot smoke stacks on each one, are sitting on three acres of land.
If the permits are renewed by CB 2, the application moves to City Planning for review.
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