{"id":319277,"date":"2026-08-12T05:20:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T05:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/319277\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T05:20:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T05:20:27","slug":"facade-install-on-going-for-seven-story-luxury-residential-on-edge-of-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/319277\/","title":{"rendered":"Facade Install On-Going for Seven-story Luxury Residential on Edge of Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facade installation is progressing at 21-11 31st Street (<a href=\"https:\/\/nyc.urbanize.city\/project\/rowan-ii\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rowan II<\/a>) on the northern edge of <a href=\"https:\/\/nyc.urbanize.city\/neighborhood\/astoria\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Astoria<\/a>, Queens, where an 87-unit luxury residential mixed-use project rises on the site of a former retail strip, one block from the terminus of the NW line at Astoria-Ditmars.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The project comes from the same team of a recently posted <a href=\"https:\/\/nyc.urbanize.city\/post\/facade-install-nears-completion-9-story-luxury-residential-lic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LIC project<\/a> with a similarly &#8220;elevated&#8221; design. The project is tied to Yong Chen of Central Realty LIC &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbldevelopment.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FBL Development<\/a>, with <a href=\"https:\/\/in-oa.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IN-OA <\/a>providing the architectural services.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"image-and-caption\">\n<a class=\"fancybox\" href=\"https:\/\/nyc.urbanize.city\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1140w\/public\/2026-08\/2101%20-%20Rendering%2001_0.jpg?itok=dKas0xef\" rel=\"article-image-set nofollow noopener\" title=\"IN-OA \" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"image-950w article-inline-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2101 - Rendering 01_0.jpg\" width=\"950\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n21-11 31st Aerial Rendering Looking SoutheastIN-OA <\/p>\n<p>Per the renderings, the design features curved floorplates and quarter-rounded window openings, though the progress on-site indicates the loss of the rounded windows.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As the name implies, Rowan II is the second phase of a larger development that includes Rowan. Combined by a central lobby, the two conjoined projects span nearly half the block along 31st from Ditmars to 21st, yielding 400 feet of frontage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rowan II replaces a collection of single story retailers, completion for the project is not known.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facade installation is progressing at 21-11 31st Street (Rowan II) on the northern edge of Astoria, Queens, where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-319277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}