QUEENS — Developers are looking to demolish a popular Forest Hills supermarket in order to make room for an 11-story rental building, a report said.
City Department of Buildings records show that Manhattan-based Slate Property Group filed demolition permits for the one-story Key Food at 69-65 Yellowstone Blvd. last week.
According to The Real Deal, which first reported the story, the company is planning to replace the supermarket with a 170-unit rental building.
The new 230,000-square-foot structure would also include nearly 40,000 square feet of retail on the ground floor and lower level, according to the report.
The building is scheduled to be finished by 2020, The Real Deal reported.
City records indicate that the owners of the Key Food building formed a joint venture with Slate in May.
Slate is also behind a plan to replace a Key Food on Lafayette Avenue in Clinton Hill with an eight-story rental building featuring 114-units, 20 percent affordable.
Representatives from Slate Property Group declined to comment on the report Friday morning.
Local Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz said she opposed the project.
"The infrastructure in this community is beyond capacity and taking away a supermarket in that location which has so many seniors and so many huge buildings surrounding it, is really going be harmful to the community," Koslowitz said.
She also hoped that if the project becomes a reality, the new building will include a supermarket.
Community Board 6 District Manager Frank Gulluscio said Friday the board has not yet been notified about plans to demolish the Key Food building.
