Mayor Adams Unveils Ambitious Plan to Transform Former Flushing Airport Into 3,000 New Homes

Most Pro-Housing Administration in City History: Mayor Adams, NYCEDC Kick Off Housing Week by Unveiling Ambitious Plan to Transform Former Flushing Airport Into 3,000 New Homes

Proposal Will Deliver Thousands of New Housing Units and Roughly 60 Acres of Open Space,

Create 1,300 Union Construction Jobs and 530 Permanent Careers

Announcement Part of Mayor Adams’ Historic Executive Order to

Build More Housing on City-Owned Sites

Plan Will Help New York City Reach Mayor Adams’

Moonshot Goal of 500,000 New Homes by 2032

Project Built by Building Trades Members Using Union Pension Fund Dollars

Announcement Kicks Off Mayor Adams’ “Housing Week,” Showcasing Administration’s

Relentless Focus on Creating More Homes, Connecting More New Yorkers to Homes,

and Keeping More New Yorkers in Homes They Already Have

NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) President and CEO Andrew Kimball today kicked off “Housing Week” by unveiling a sweeping proposal to build approximately 3,000 homes and 60 acres of public space on the site of the former Flushing Airport in College Point, Queens. The development — led by New York City-based firms Cirrus Workforce Housing and LCOR Incorporated — is projected to generate $3.2 billion in economic activity over the next 30 years, creating over 1,300 union constructions job and 530 permanent careers. Cirrus-LCOR’s proposal also includes sustainable design elements and high-quality, park-like landscaping to integrate the buildings into the surrounding wetlands environment. Following the completion of a successful Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) and a robust environmental review, construction is expected to begin in 2028. After Mayor Adams issued a historic executive order last year requiring city agencies to review their portfolios and identify potential sites for new housing, NYCEDC led a competitive request-for-proposals process to identify a developer for the former Flushing Airport. As a result of the historic partnership established in March 2024 between Cirrus Workforce Housing, Mayor Adams, and the New York City Building Trades to develop workforce housing on public lands using union labor, this project will be built by Building Trades members using union pension fund dollars. Along with proposals to build thousands of new homes on city-owned sites like 100 Gold Street and Gansevoort Square, five neighborhood plans to create jobs and new housing across the city, and the first citywide housing zoning reform in 60 years, today’s announcement will help New York City reach Mayor Adams’ moonshot goal of creating 500,000 new homes by 2032.

“For too many decades, this valuable land has sat vacant, but our administration said it was time to change that. We issued a landmark executive order to build housing on city-owned sites like this one and now, we are excited to announce we will create around 3,000 new homes at the site of the former Flushing Airport,” said Mayor Adams. “Whether it’s building record amounts of affordable housing two years in a row, passing the first citywide zoning reform in six decades, or transforming old offices, garages, and airfields into new homes, we are proud to be the most pro-housing administration in city history — and by using every tool at every level of government to build housing on every block in every borough, we continue to prove that point every day. We are advancing generational projects to deliver the housing New Yorkers need and fighting every day to make our city more affordable and the best place to raise a family.”

"The redevelopment of the former Flushing Airport will deliver thousands of affordable and accessible homes that are financed by, built by, and lived in by union workers, as a result of our partnership with Cirrus and Mayor Adams," said Gary LaBarbera, president, Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York. "Thanks to this generational program, this project and others like it will continue to reinforce labor's historic role in boosting the middle class, generating family-sustaining careers, and providing our communities with economic stimulus. Hardworking New Yorkers, like our tradesmen and tradeswomen, deserve to live comfortably and raise their families in the city they serve. We are grateful for the collaboration from Mayor's Office, NYCEDC, Cirrus, and LCOR on forging a path for this particular development and look forward to seeing this unique approach to housing continue to come to fruition and improve the lives of countless New Yorkers."

Old Flushing Airport

132nd Street & 20th Avenue

College Point

July 28, 2025