Beach Channel Drive "stinker condominiums" to be demolished!

I remember driving along Beach Channel Drive back in 2006 and watching construction start on the condominiums being built on 106th street directly adjacent to the Rockaway sewage treatment plant.

I could not understand why a developer would invest capital in such a project to build a housing development right next door to a wastewater treatment plant that, especially during the warm summer months, can best be described as extremely malodorous and why the city would give its approval to such a construction project.

I also wondered what person, in his or her right mind, would buy into such a development.

As it turned out the City finally woke up and after issuing several stop work orders, the city condemned the property back in 2007 leaving more than a dozen half-completed homes to sit abandoned for the next three years.

The city recently announced a $2 million dollar project which will see the abandoned buildings razed and the property cleared starting this summer and construction started on a storage facility to be utilized the adjacent sewage treatment plant to be completed next year. 

Below is a rendering of what the completed project should look like when completed.