Apartments dominate the changing Astoria skyline. Tribune Photo By Ira Cohen
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Onward & Upward
Progress and financial success will always result in physical growth. High market value properties will always beget more of the same. Successful businesses will always lure more success.
Growth is the price we pay for success. How we handle that growth and how we face the challenges it creates is shown in the choices we make in this borough’s development.
The days of our bucolic past have fallen to the wayside in place of shining towers of steel and glass, apartment buildings where small homes and open land once stood, massive retail and corporate centers where small businesses had been.
Vision, the ability to adapt to changing circumstances and the desire to invest in Queens as it blossoms have lined the pockets of the builders and architects of this borough’s future, who, in turn, have put that money back into the communities from which they came.
As our successes continue, so, too, will our growth, ever moving this borough onward and upward, plotting a course for the development of Queens’ future.
