It would feature 20 acres of newly built public park space designed by landscape architect firm Field Operations, which helped develop the High Line in Manhattan and Freshkills Park in Staten Island. If Cohen is granted the license, he plans to partner with Hard Rock and SHoP Architects to build the gaming complex, which is being called Metropolitan Park.
The details of Cohen's proposal were released publicly for the first time on Tuesday, Bloomberg added in a writeup. Tom Grech, president and CEO of the Queens Chamber of Commerce, commented: 'It's going to be an $8 billion investment in Queens, 15,000 construction jobs - both temporary and permanent - and a way to transform an entire area to continue to cement Queens as kind of our sports and entertainment mecca for the entire city.'
