DEVELOPMENT ALERT: Excavation is set to begin at 27-48 Jackson Avenue, the site of a 811-foot-tall skyscraper in the Court Square district of Long Island City, Queens

QUEENS: No architect, developer, or building function has been revealed yet for the project, but Federal Aviation Administration obstruction evaluation permits were filed due to its proximity to LaGuardia Airport.

Alternatively addressed as 43-01 Queens Street, the rectangular plot is located between Orchard and Queens Streets and formerly served as a 25,000-square-foot open-air parking lot owned by Building Orchard LLC.

Work appears ready to commence at the site. A number of excavators and dumpsters sit across the plot behind metal fencing, and large detached excavator buckets await their use in ripping up the asphalt.

If built to the specified height, 27-48 Jackson Avenue would eclipse the 778-foot-tall pinnacle of Hill West Architects‘ Skyline Tower at 23-15 44th Drive, which currently holds the title of the tallest structure in Queens.