In the 21st century, opportunities belong to connected governments, businesses, communities and people.

Flushing2025 is a framework for a smarter community and business district where opportunity is maximized. Today it is imperative for the business and local community to work together towards sustainable, inclusive development; to solve common problems, improve urban space, and create a better sense of community.

Making a case for the most connected city.

Downtown Flushing as a practical location for a hyperconnected cyber society.

One of New York City’s largest transit hubs.

Downtown Flushing is home to the NYC Subway, the Long Island Railroad, a large number of NYC bus lines, private bus service, and LaGuardia Airport with airport shuttle service. The 7 train connects eastern Queens to the F train tech corridor running from Long Island City to Manhattan, extending the tech corridor to Flushing.

 

 

Downtown Flushing is near regional attractions such as Citi Field (Shea Stadium), the United States Tennis Association (USTA) National Tennis Center (US OPEN), and the Queens Zoo.  The city is connected to the Long Island and Whitestone expressways and the Grand Central Parkway.

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Key component of regional economic development

The NYCEDC Flushing Redevelopment Framework delineates land areas shown in the Flushing Masterplan Site which includes Downtown Flushing, Willets Point, and lower College Point.

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A very robust and diverse conduit system with an ample energy capacity.

Beneath Northern Boulevard exists a fiber-dense corridor and conduit system with extensive fiber diversity options. Ultra-low latency fiber networks are capable of delivering maximum network performance between critical New York Metro financial exchanges and regional data centers. Multiple point of entry delivery to key properties via diverse data network providers in addition to direct fiber conduit access provides the necessary components needed for a required basal layer of underground infrastructure.

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Downtown Flushing’s robust business district will benefit and thrive from advanced infrastructure.

Renewed public investments have encouraged rapid development of Downtown Flushing. In 2004, a business improvement district and development framework was developed by the City. Private development has continued at breakneck speed with investments pouring in from overseas investment sources, as well as world leading private equity firms. Development includes luxury condominiums, premier hotels, Class A office space, and shopping centers with many future works planned. Retail space for local or national retail brands have assumed near-Manhattan rental market rates. The Department of City Planning along with the New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC) created the Flushing Development Framework. A comprehensive land-use plan, the Framework proposes ways to revitalize the Flushing Creek waterfront, redevelop Willets Point, and improve Downtown Flushing through various recommendations.

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Big Business Benefits such as:

  • Drastically slash costs of communications infrastructure with vastly improved capacity, flexibility.

  • Greater property values in return on investment for commercial real estate assets.

  • Connect private free or subscription-based gigabit wireless access within or between buildings.

  • Digital operations monitoring, unprecedented low MTTR, self-healing infrastructure.

  • Self-healing redundant networks between community organizations.

  • 24x7x365 systems monitoring, business continuity and disaster recovery

  • 100% Neutral carrier access: light your building with any internet, voice, or data provider of your choice with no contract and at far lower cost

  • Build, deploy, change, modify and rapidly scale complex communications networks and SDI within hours, not months – at a fraction of the cost.

  • Transmit medical or financial data at breakneck speed, locally, through the metro area, or internationally with ultra low latency.

  • Cooperative coordination of energy management incorporating sources of green power such as solar and wind energy

  • Share and communicate privately with neighboring businesses in the community effortlessly (hotel to hotel, hospital to medical office, city services to schools, etc) and extend to businesses in Manhattan.

  • Modular SDF data center 100% PCI, FINRA, SSAE16, HIPAA complaint, local private and public cloud, big data or corporate data storage, connected over the same network as your corporate office.

 

Big Community Benefits such as:

  • Digital kiosks and digital community public access system for community and business interaction

  • Free neighborhood high speed wireless internet access and free wireless mesh for public use

  • Private free communications using mobile phones, computers, and other wireless devices without the need for an Internet Access Provider

  • Provides community controlled communications matrix during natural disasters and eliminates digital divide

  • Greater access and integration of public services, schools, hospitals, transportation, emergency services

and much more