Queens Place is a multi-level retail complex at 8801 Queens Boulevard in Elmhurst, Queens, occupying a distinctive circular building at the intersection of Queens Boulevard, 56th Avenue, and Justice Avenue. The property serves as a value-oriented retail hub for the dense Elmhurst and Jackson Heights residential catchment in central Queens, with Target as its primary anchor and Lidl anchoring the grocery and daily-need component. Best Buy and DSW complete the anchor tier within an off-price and accessible format calibrated to the local consumer profile.
The current tenant mix is narrower than a full regional mall and should be treated as an urban value-and-convenience format rather than a broad fashion destination. Confirmed tenants include Lidl, Best Buy, DSW, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Cold Stone Creamery, Gong Cha, Citibank and other small-format service and food operators. The centre’s commercial role is driven less by fashion breadth and more by daily-need traffic from Target, grocery, off-price retail and quick-service food.
The Elmhurst and Jackson Heights trade area is among the most densely populated and ethnically diverse in New York City, with Queens Boulevard functioning as a primary retail spine connecting the central Queens residential communities. The Grand Avenue-Newtown subway station on the M and R lines is directly adjacent to the property, providing transit access from Midtown Manhattan, Forest Hills, and the Astoria corridor. Queens County holds approximately 2.4 million residents, and the Elmhurst-Jackson Heights-Corona corridor represents one of the highest-density retail catchments in the outer boroughs.
Queens Place serves a fundamentally urban outer-borough function within the New York retail map, providing accessible and value-oriented retail to a dense, transit-dependent, and ethnically diverse Hispanic, South Asian, and East Asian catchment that differs structurally from the car-dependent suburban malls of Long Island and northern New Jersey.
