The agreement was announced Thursday. It covers a 20-acre portion of Willets Point in Queens, where Citi Field is located.
It calls for developers Related Companies and Sterling Equities to construct a mix of retail, hotel and commercial space in a gritty area made up of auto repair shops and junkyards. Affordable housing units would be constructed.
Bloomberg says the $3 billion project will create 12,000 union construction jobs and 7,100 permanent jobs and will generate $4.2 billion in economic activity over the next three decades.
Sterling Equities founders Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz own the Mets and Citi Field.
