MTA making it difficult for new shops to open at Jackson Heights subway station?
from The Real Deal, October 22, 4:58 pm
New Jackson Heights station still seeks shops
Two years after a Jackson Heights subway station's $138 million rehabilitation, only one of the 14 new retail and newsstand spaces is open for business.
A Korean bakery that has yet to open blamed the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's bureaucracy for delays at the station at 74th Street and Roosevelt Avenue.
The MTA has signed leases for five newsstands, two ladies clothing and accessories stores, a bakery called Koryodang Café, and an ATM, said Roco Krsulic, the MTA's director of real estate. But other than a newsstand that recently opened, all the spaces above and below ground remain vacant....
New Jackson Heights station still seeks shops
Two years after a Jackson Heights subway station's $138 million rehabilitation, only one of the 14 new retail and newsstand spaces is open for business.
A Korean bakery that has yet to open blamed the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's bureaucracy for delays at the station at 74th Street and Roosevelt Avenue.
The MTA has signed leases for five newsstands, two ladies clothing and accessories stores, a bakery called Koryodang Café, and an ATM, said Roco Krsulic, the MTA's director of real estate. But other than a newsstand that recently opened, all the spaces above and below ground remain vacant....
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