Developer Plans 7-Story Kew Gardens Apartment Building

KEW GARDENS, QUEENS -- A Queens developer plans to tear down a century-old Kew Gardens home to make room for a seven-story apartment complex, according to city records.

Steven Li, owner of Grosvenor Realty Group LLC, filed permits with the city Department of Buildings to erect the 19-unit building at 116-17 Grosvenor Lane shortly before he was approved Thursday to demolish a two-story house that's been at the address since 1899, city records show.

Li’s company bought the property in September 2017 for $1,350,000 and filed plans to bulldoze the deteriorating house that December.

The new proposed 17,180-square-foot complex would rise 65 feet, and apartments' average size would be about 735-square feet, according to construction permits. Its amenities would include laundry, a lobby and parking for 10 bicycles.

Flushing-based firm Tan Architects is listed on permits as the designer of the new building.

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