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Rockrose's luxury condo complex changing the face of Long Island City.


EastCoast, Rockrose Development Corporation's new luxury rental complex in Long Island City, has captured the attention of renters looking for Looking for

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The building, at 4720 Center Boulevard, has reached 80% occupancy in less than 5 months.

Rockrose attributes high demand to the unique style of living EastCoast is offering renters, and the explosive residential growth in Long Island City in recent years.

The first EastCoast rental tower is changing the face of Long Island City.

Arquitectonica, the full-service architecture and design firm responsible for such well-known projects as the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area.  embassy in Peru and the Atlantis condominium The Atlantis Condominium is a landmark 20-story luxury condominium in Miami, Florida. It was built between 1980-1982 and was designed by the architectural firm Arquitectonica.  has designed the 32-story glass tower which sits directly on the East River overlooking Gantry Plaza State Park Gantry Plaza State Park is a state park on the East River in the Hunter's Point section of Long Island City, in the New York City borough of Queens.

The 2.5 acre park is a former dock facility and includes restored gantry cranes used from the middle 19th to middle 20th
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This building offers spectacular, panoramic city and park views. Studios and one, two and three-bedroom units to dramatic penthouse duplexes range from 500 to 1,500 s/f.

Over the next six years, Rockrose will build a total of seven luxury towers on the 22-acre waterfront site in the northern-most section of Queens West in Long Island City that was once the home of a Pepsi-Cola bottling plant Noun 1. bottling plant - a plant where beverages are put into bottles with caps
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Once completed, the project will be comprised of 2.9 million square feet of mixed-use space (2,900 luxury rental apartments, sophisticated condominiums and retail spaces), surrounded by 8 acres of waterfront parkland. EastCoast is to be developed in eight phases, with all buildings expected to be completed by 2012.

Duane Reade is set to open in the second rental building in 2008. and plans for a grocery store are in the works. A new elementary school will be established in one of the towers adding a much needed additional educational facility to Long Island City.
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Publication:Real Estate Weekly
Date:Jan 24, 2007
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