The de Blasio administration and the Queens Development Group on Monday made a new agreement for the Willets Point urban renewal plan, according to The New York Times.
Covering six acres of land, the deal includes a school, retail, open space and 1,100 apartments for moderate-and low-income tenants, the publication said. It also reported that there will be no mall.
For the other 17 acres of Phase 1 land, the Times said, a "task force" will come together to come up with a "framework" for its development. City Councilman Francisco Moya (D-East Elmhurst), the de Blasio administration and Borough President Melinda Katz will be members of the group.
Last year, the state Court of Appeals ruled that the proposed Willets West mega-mall — which the developers had argued was financially necessary to follow through on the larger redevelopment — could not be built because its location, the Citi Field parking lot, is technically parkland. The future of the Iron Triangle had been a question mark since then because the QDG said it needed to build the mall first.
Demolition has taken place in the Phase 1 land, though businesses still operate in the other part of Willets Point.
Chronicle inquiries about how the new plan would be financed were not immediately returned.
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