By: Claire Moses | The Real Deal | Citigroup sold a huge Long Island City development site just north of One Court Square to Flushing-based developer Jia Shu Xu of C&G Empire Realty for $143 million, according to property records filed with the city Wednesday.

By: Rich Bockmann | Photo: The Real Deal | Stakeholders had high hopes for Downtown Jamaica when the city rezoned 368 blocks in 2007. The Queens neighborhood had all the makings of a real-estate hotbed at the time: great transportation, retail infrastructure, and cultural institutions.

The Lo-Down | A new hotel — with a large Chinese grocery on the ground floor — is scheduled to debut any day now on the border of Chinatown and the Lower East Side.

Marketwired | When it comes to catching a sports game, seats are everything. And for anyone traveling to attend Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game at Citi Field this month, booking the right hotel is tantamount to getting great tickets. That’s why the area’s best all-suite hotel, SpringHill Suites New York LaGuardia Airport, is the reservation to make.