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QUEENS WEEKLY, JAN. 20, 2019
Late-night Jamaica blaze leaves senior
woman dead and her husband injured
Kohl’s
Target
will offered opportunities
to work at other Kohl’s locations
or to accept a severance
package. At this time,
Kohl’s indicated that the
stores will be closed down
in the first half of 2019.
Additionally, Kohl’s plans
to open four new smaller format
stores in 2019, according
to the representative. The
locations and timing of openings
for these new stores
have yet to be announced.
According to a recent
report from Kohl’s Corp.,
comparable sales during
the holiday season (November
and December 2018)
rose 1.2 percent compared
to the year before.
Kohl’s has another
Queens location, in Fresh
Meadows, that’s not affected
by the closure.
Reach reporter Emily
Davenport by e-mail at
edavenport@qns.com or
by phone at (718) 224-5863
ext. 236.
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Target failing at this location.
Please consider opening Target
here.”
In the petition, Stubbs argued
that grocery store options
for people in the area
are far and few between
ranging between Western
Beef at 47-05 Metropolitan
Ave. and C-Town at 75-43
Metropolitan Ave.
Dennis Ratner, president
of Rentar Development, told
TimesLedger the shopping
center has become a hard sell
in recent years as brick-andmortar
retailers are forced
downsize both the size and
number of their stores and
the only hope for the company
is to subdivide the space
and offer more loading bays.
Ratner said he had been
in talks with multiple retailers
but did not offer any
names since there are not yet
any bites.
At the Community Board
5 meeting, Felice Bassin from
Rentar even pointed out that
Target itself is going with
small outlet space as the online
market continues to heat
up, giving physical big box facilities
a run for their money.
Rentar had put in an application
with the city Department
of Transportation
for a curb-cut and a driveway
for two additional unloading
bays along Metropolitan
Avenue that would facilitate
the subdivision of the 145,000
square foot space formerly occupied
by Kmart and sweeten
the deal for smaller retailers.
Rentar is skeptical any
companies that take a subdivided
retail space would be
willing to share the current
eight unloading bays among
the other tenants.
There are concerns that
with trucks loading in the
front of the building, massive
amounts of foot traffic
from arriving M trains and
students from Christ the
King High School would
pose a hazard.
So, with less than 24
hours between the proposal
at the Jan. 9 Board 5 meeting
and the deadline for
DOT to hear the advisory
decision, the community
board voted unanimously
against Rentar’s proposal,
claiming it would need
more time to further study
the plans.
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A change.org petition started by a Maspeth woman to bring
a Target store to Middle Village has garnered more than 175
signatures. Photo by Jay Reed/Flickr Creative Commons
BY EMILY DAVENPORT
Flames ripped through
a Jamaica home on Jan.
16, leaving an 84-year-old
woman dead and her husband
injured, according to
Fire Department sources.
Police responded to a 911
call regarding a residential
fire at 166-11 91st Ave. Jan.
16 at 11:22 p.m. The FDNY
deployed 25 units, including
more than 100 firefighters
and EMS personnel, to
the scene and got the fire
extinguished by 1:05 a.m.
Once the fire was out,
officers from the 103rd Precinct
entered the home and
found 84-year-old Ruth Andrade
on the first floor of
the home, unconscious and
unresponsive, along with
her 85-year-old husband,
according to the FDNY.
EMS units rushed
both victims to Queens
Hospital Center, where
Andrade was pronounced
dead. Her husband remained
hospitalized in
stable condition.
The Medical Examiner
was working to determine
the cause of Andrade’s
death and fire marshals
were investigating the
cause of the fire.
Reach reporter Emily
Davenport by e-mail at
edavenport@qns.com or
by phone at (718) 224-5863
ext. 236.
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