OCEAN BAY APARTMENTS (OCEANSIDE) - commercial buildings and vacant lot

There are 3 lots grouped here:

Queens block 15890, lot 54 (360 BEACH 54 STREET). More details at ZOLA.
Queens block 15890, lot 55 (366 BEACH 54 STREET). More details at ZOLA.
OCEAN BAY APARTMENTS (OCEANSIDE) - vacant lot (53-13 BEACH CHANNEL DRIVE). More details at ZOLA.

53-05 BEACH CHANNEL DRIVE, Queens

Public Housing Restructuring

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What do we know about what NYCHA is doing or proposing here?

In its FY20 Draft Plan, NYCHA said,

"Ocean Bay Apartments (Oceanside), Queens – NYCHA intends to dispose of parcels of land and an existing, vacant, one-story commercial building to facilitate construction of a mixed-use building. The parcels are located on Beach Channel Drive between Beach 53rd and Beach 54th Streets south of Oceanside Apartments and east of Bayside Apartments. NYCHA acquired the property, a blighted and underused shopping strip, opposite Ocean Bay Apartments consisting of seven contiguous parcels of approximately 37,111 square feet total, as part of the Ocean Bay HOPE VI Plan through eminent domain. Disposition, demolition of the existing structure, and start of construction is planned for 2020."

p.101, https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nycha/downloads/pdf/FY%202020%20Draft%20Annual%20Plan%20and%20Five-Year%20Agency%20Plan.pdf#page=101

NYCHA will hold a hearing on July 18, 2019, 5:30pm at Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers St.