Housing Project at Former Flushing Airport to Create 1300 New Unionized Jobs

The former Flushing Airport, decommissioned decades ago, will serve as the foundation of 3,000 new homes, with the project expected to create 1,300 unionized construction jobs. Announced Monday as part of Housing Week, construction at the 80-acre site in College Point, Queens, is expected to begin in 2028. The project will also encompass 60 acres of land nearby the airfield that has remained vacant since the airport closed in 1984.

The project is funded through a private-public partnership between Cirrus and the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York, which represents over 100,000 trade workers at 15 unions. As part of funding for the housing development, 11 unions will contribute pension funds toward the creation of workforce housing in the development plan.

“Thanks to this generational program, this project and others like it will continue to reinforce labor's historic role in boosting the middle class, generating family-sustaining careers, and providing our communities with economic stimulus,” President of BCTC Gary LaBarbera said. “Hardworking New Yorkers, like our tradesmen and tradeswomen, deserve to live comfortably and raise their families in the city they serve." Read more in The Chief Leader, the Queens Chronicle, and theQueens Eagle.