STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Plans for a massive commercial motor freight station designed to accommodate 184 tractor-trailers on a long, winding curve of Arthur Kill Road in Charleston are no longer in limbo. According to property records, several open violations at the site have been dismissed and unresolved land use actions were approved by the NYC Planning Commission last month — a series of pertinent steps that essentially allow the developer to proceed as planned.
“The summons was dismissed after a hearing,” a press rep from NYC’s Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings (OATH) told the Advance/SILive this week, referring to a March 12 court date that cleared more than $25,000 in fines that were levied against the developer for removing hundreds of trees without permission. “Please note the [Department of Buildings] has a right to appeal…in this case, [Department of Buildings] has not yet filed an appeal; they have another two weeks to do so.”
The project, which was highly contested at a Community Board 3 meeting in September, is slated for a 16-acre plot of land located near the corner of Englewood Avenue, between Winant Place and Androvette Street and in close proximity to Clay Pit Ponds Park. The property’s owner, Arthur Englewood LLC, is seeking to “develop a trucking terminal to serve the niche need of industrial/manufacturing/logistics tenants by providing overflow parking, as well as short-term and long-term storage for tractor trailers.”…