Forest Hills Jewish Center Listed For Sale For $50 Million

FOREST HILLS, QUEENS — The Forest Hills Jewish Center has hit the market for $50 million, more than a year after its redevelopment plans fell apart.

The 36,000-square-foot property at 106-06 Queens Blvd. is being marketed by B6 Real Estate Advisors as a development site with "prime frontage" on Austin Street, which the sales brokerage called "one of the borough's most desirable retail corridors," according to a news release.

“106-06 Queens Boulevard provides developers with a unique opportunity in size, scale, and location, within a neighborhood often referred to as one of the best places to live in New York,” Thomas Donovan, partner and vice chairman at B6, said in a prepared statement.

The Forest Hills Jewish Center previously partnered with an unnamed developer to build a 10-story tower with space for the center, but the plans fell through due to a disagreement between the two, the Forest Hills Post reported in 2019.

The mysterious development group would have paid the construction costs in exchange for use of the center's land.

Deborah Gregor, executive director of the Forest Hills Jewish Center, said she is committed to continuing the center's religious services and educational programs uninterrupted.

Selling the building, which dates back to 1950, would enable the center to build a new facility that better meets the needs of the community, she said.

"Our synagogue has been engaged for many years in a re-building project that will provide us a new building for the next 70 years just the way our predecessors provided us with our current building over seventy years ago," Gregor said in a statement. "The sale of this property will enable us to build a facility that will continue to uphold our traditions of providing the highest quality programs and services to our membership and the Forest Hills community at large."

This story has been updated to add a statement from Forest Hills Jewish Center Executive Director Deborah Gregor.