We said goodbye to Ten63 a little over a year ago now, and now finally we are seeing the next steps in the cycle of development.

Remember that great place?

Demolition is coming soon to the site, and early next Sprint is when the developers plan to start construction (the architect is Thomas O'Mara, someone we haven't seen in the hood before).

LICNYC took a look at that old beauty back in mid-2005. Apparently the site was about 3,000 sq ft with 8x buildable. It sold for about $4 million. The guys who got it intend to put up an 8 story, 30ish unit building. They kind of had to knock it down because of the way it was laid out. The bottom couple of floors are this huge entryway grand staircase -- the building was the Queens Borough Hall when it was opened back in 1902.

LIC really used to be the "capital" of Queens -- in 1922 they were debating where it should head, and in 1940 they finally moved in Jamaica-wards.