The $3 billion megaproject near Citi Field, a retail complex that has spent five years in the planning pipeline and is set to go before two City Council subcommittees this week and the whole body next week, is facing another pre-approval hurdle. Queens politicians are pushing to allocate an additional $70 million that would go towards building traffic ramps from the development site to the Van Wyck Expressway, arguing that they will more seamlessly pave the way for the residential development that has been promised later on in the construction process. The complex will ultimately also house a hotel, and it's displacing many local businesses. [Crain's; previously]
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