Oh boy, that… is interesting. Those three women probably just made those accusations up just for money. Still, I hope it doesn’t affect the development of Affirmation Tower (if it does go through)
^^ To the article, well…
I know there’s a lot of people that like this tower (and those that don’t me included) and that theyd like for the tower to be built somewhere else, but I’m not sure if that makes sense. Affirmation Tower was specifically designed (physically) to meet the criteria and needs of the site, which is why it’s shaped like a trapezoid in plan and cantilevers, it wouldn’t really make sense to build it anywhere else because of that otherwise, it’d actually be wasting it’s own air rights and lot area anywhere else, not to mention that its 3 conpletely vertical sides probably wouldn’t meet zoning requirements in other parts of the city. There is site based architecture and non site based architecture and AT is site based. 
If the news proves to be true, I’d imagine AT would be axed from the entry list if it is to be resubmitted for the new RFP, it’s questionable what Peebles and Co has to say on the matter and/or if they’d still submit a proposal with another architect or just not submit anymore. In a similar manner to how Richard Meier was sort of shunned after he went through his allegations, so this sort of news is nothing new.
But not getting too political, eitherway, something will eventually get built here, and the RFP will eventually be issued. At that point im sure the other developers will start to release their designs now that we know Related and I think Silverstein have said they were going to resubmit proposals or were interested in the RFP.
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Ah, makes sense now. 
That means that Hudson Yards is one of the only sites that has the specific zoning requirements for such a large and tall tower
Let’s hope that the other proposals are released sooner than later, although my guess would be sometime next year
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I’d imagine the next bids would probably have a height between 1500-1700 ft 
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New RFP for site K was released on Monday July 10th. I haven’t found anything about the site between 33rd and 34th, if anybody can see if they could find anything or maybe can tell NYGUY on SSP.
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The state seems to only want [affordable] housing built here. It says commercial uses are not permitted.
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Residential use with a minimum of 30% affordable housing component are actually a requirement, but mixed-use program is still capable, it’s only commercial office in particular that isn’t allowed in the program. But things like hotels (which I see as being quite possible in this scenario since the site has been host to a number of old proposals acting as a hotel for Javits) and other commercial based program are still capable.
The residential component is capable of taking 12 FAR of the overall 24 FAR that the site has been allotted and cannot exceed. This means that if a developer does not want to include anything but residential that the proposals won’t be that large. The overall ZFA of the project is 1.26 million sqft, which for the lot size is and isn’t big, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that the project can’t be “tall”. It just probably won’t be “very” tall in the sense of other proposals around the city.
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yup today was the deadline, I wonder if peebles will release their new bid publicly to drum up support.
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Nope, just old proposals from the original RFP that the consultants could probably freely post now due to the proposal no longer being fit for the RFP, end of a NDA.
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I thought publishing would be quicker.
from September now we have January
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For decades, New York State has placed a limit on residential density in New York City by capping the floor area ratio at 12.0, making it difficult to build new housing within the five boroughs. Governor Hochul will propose legislation to allow New York City to lift the cap on floor area ratio for certain projects to maximize housing construction, including affordable housing construction.
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You can post it here NEW YORK | Ending the Residential FAR Limit - #35 by robertwalpole
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Interesting…
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There is nothing on the meeting agenda related to this project, why was it posted here?
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When he first posted it, I first assumed that the place (Empire State Development, 633 Third Avenue – 37th Floor Conference Room, New York, NY 10017) is where they would hold the meeting related to this project. But taking a second look, I see that’s not the case
You’re not wrong about that conclusion (the location being where they’d be having the meeting) but the meeting is about 495 11th Ave, not this project.
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Then it was posted incorrectly on SSP