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No Plans Yet for Vacant NY Wheel Site
The city’s Economic Development Authority hasn’t put forth a plan for the vacant New York Wheel site on Staten Island, six months after the project was declared dead, the Staten Island Advance reported. The site was to have contained a 630-foot-tall Ferris wheel—among the tallest in the world—and was touted as a catalyst for the revitalization of Staten Island’s North Shore.
“It’s a site we can do a lot with for the good of Staten Island, and there’s some real interesting ideas whether it should be focused on economic development, job creation, whether it should be public space, or some combination,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a news conference recently. “But the process has really only begun.”
In the interim, the project’s developer hasn’t formally canceled its lease agreement with the city and is still liable for rent payments on the site, according to the Advance.
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