The 2,300-square-foot space is now an empty shell. It will basically be a waiting room for free shuttle buses that run to the racino every 20 minutes. The Greater Jamaica Development Corp., the politically connected nonprofit that used $9.2 million in taxpayer money to clean up the area and develop the retail arcade, says it has signed a lease with Resorts World for the largest of the storefronts on Sutphin Boulevard. The only tenant so far in a long-planned retail center that’s supposed to attract shoppers to downtown Jamaica will be a bus station that instead takes them away - to the Resorts World racino at Aqueduct Raceway.Ī sign in one of the three storefronts, which have remained empty since they were finished last June, advertises: “Coming soon: Bus Depot Here!” ![]() ![]() Here’s one way to gamble on taxpayer-funded urban revitalization.
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