Thursday, May 7, 2015

Mizumi wishes to expand onto contaminated land


From the Times Ledger:

The owner of Mizumi Sushi and Seafood Buffet joined his lawyer at Community Board 11’s April meeting to make the case for his application to physically expand his restaurant onto the adjacent lot.

The community board ultimately approved the application 27 to 9 despite a fair amount of opposition due to the specifics of the building site, which require extensive environmental remediation and traffic considerations.

In expanding and developing the site, tons of soil would be removed, contamination would be capped and the currently 7,000-square-foot restaurant would have a new footprint of about 15,000 square feet with a 7,200-square-foot second floor banquet room and service bar.

Property records indicate that Twin Deer Group LLC, as the property owner of Mizumi in Douglaston, recently purchased the adjacent property that was once home to a gas station and automotive service.

Ching Kuo Chiang, as the principal owner of Mizumi, is working with the city Office of Environmental Remediation to clean up the contaminated site, which had previously been walled off from contaminating the surrounding wetlands of Alley Pond Park.

Chiang’s application to CB11 was only for a zoning variance, because the contaminated parcel is currently zoned single-family residential. There are no developments to the west of the parcel on which Mizumi plans to expand, and it is surrounded by an environmentally protected area.

In the application, Chiang’s lawyer Josh Reinsmith said Mizumi, at 231-10 Northern Blvd., would be combined with the adjacent parcel to be a single commercial-zoned lot. The application is still subject to approval by the Department of Environmental Conservation. If combined, the lot would be just under 1.5 acres in size.

The Douglaston Zoning Committee recommended approval of the zoning variance. Committee chair Joseph Sollano said that the committee viewed the project as only benefiting the community.

9 comments:

JQ said...

Does Mizumi mean mercury in japanese?

And what's with the Charlie Brown music?

Footage of food buffet...yummy.

Anonymous said...

No need to worry about the Mercury content of your tuna sashimi.
Now there are other contaminants to digest at Mizumi.
Bon appetite! Who needs Pearl Harbor?

Anonymous said...


I can't believe I'm saying this, but done right architecturally,
it would upgrade the area.

Now get rid of that awful mess furthur east disguised as a church that has turned into a flea market.

That's where the community should focus.

Anonymous said...

the asians do not care about toxicity. Thats how they live every day. In filth.

Scott68 said...

They're Korean.

Hasn't happened yet, but immigration will be looking into their employees, hint hint.

Anonymous said...

I can't believe I'm saying this, but done right architecturally,
it would upgrade the area.


Why you can't believe that you are saying this. Not everything Queenscrap post up here is consider bad.

Man or woman up and Think for yourself!

I agree that it will upgrade the area. There is a freaking wasteland opposite of it too.

Posters here are ignorant Mercury my butt. They are working on cleaning it up first before building.

Anonymous said...

Does anyone know the history of this area? I've always found it weird that this section of land between APEC & 234th St was never acquired by parks when the city created Alley Pond Park.
As you're driving along Northern, through a fairly large park, you pass by these private businesses that seem as though they are 'intruding' into and backing up onto a parkscape (Not saying these properties ever stole the land, it just looks that way in 2015).
I'd love to know if anyone knows the story of this odd little strip of land.

Anonymous said...

"the asians do not care about toxicity. Thats how they live every day. In filth."
All Asians or just the ones you know ?
I'm curious and can you elaborate the the reason you made such a statement.

Anonymous said...

@"the asians do not care about toxicity. Thats how they live every day. In filth."

Try getting off your ass once in awhile and visit other places instead of taking what you see on TV as the truth. The media will brainwash you into believing that's how they live. If you have actually visited certain places in Asia, you will see that we as Americans live in filth.