Huge day tomorrow.
The meeting and vote is at 2 pm ET.
I believe it will be live streamed.
I believe it will pass and this baby will start to rise.
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I hope it passes as well, this back and forth has been going on for far too long… but that being said, any vertical construction probably won’t start until next year.
We don’t even know where along in the process the building is in development or whether the major trades have even been awarded contracts with specific groups to work on the project. I mentioned this before about the leaked renders, but renders or plans don’t signify anything about where a building is in its development (in a certain sense). What is actually going on with the project itself does.
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Just an FYI for tomorrow.
Agenda: https://www.budget.ny.gov/boards/pacb/062123/agenda-062123.pdf
Meetings are posted here along with webcasts: Public Authorities Control Board (PACB)
Also the NYS Division of the Budget YT Channel
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I concur. It will start rising at some point in 2024, provided the vote passes tomorrow.
Another 900 footer for LM is awesome. And this one is quite bulky. 1,325 units is a lot.
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Live stream
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Did anyone watch? Update? The link is not working for me.
You might have to join Vimeo. Idk, I don’t really use the service
Can’t find it on the agenda anymore. I guess they didn’t vote on it then. https://www.budget.ny.gov/boards/pacb/062123/agenda-062123.pdf
Yeah I’ve been looking as well. IDK what happened yesterday but the feed was messed up.
Have not seen any updated via tabloids either on this.
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I joined the Vimeo link when it was live. It looks like they set it to only broadcast live and to not retain a recording for later (at least not publicly) like I’ve seen on some YouTube Lives.
Anyway it was pretty boring and I had to hop off before they got to anything about 5WTC.
Seems weird that we have to wait until next month to see the minutes from this meeting. But I’m guessing there aren’t many people foaming at the mouth for this info like these architecture forums.
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I was about to post that! It’s really unfortunate…
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Scumbags!
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Can we stay on topic please? This is getting out of control. Stop derailing threads!
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I don’t think this is a good location for affordable housing. Would it be a site for a hotel, like the Marriott once was (WTC 3).
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I wish they picked the Davis Brody design where a hotel was slated to go. But I recall an LMDC document from last year, where a hotel in 2wtc is hinted, so essentially the wtc could have all sorts of amenities. Bringing more residents to Lower Manhattan will have a positive impact too.
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A great deal of new residential projects have affordable housing dedicated components/units in them, there’s really no real place to say they belong or don’t but for those apartment towers that are “really” luxury based. If it were to change to a hotel, we could expect it to be even longer until this were to start rising.
I don’t have a problem with this having affordable housing, but it definitely should not be 100% of the towers stock.
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I think that teachers and cops should get priority for these units.
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There should be no affordable housing on this site. It’s pretty much the dumbest location for affordable housing, since the level of housing subsidies is directly tied to the land worth. No on-site affordable housing would be the best thing for affordable housing, since you could leverage the market rents to build more units in cheaper areas.
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There should not be more than the 30% affordable housing that was planned here, but at the same time the 190K sf of office space does seem misplaced as well.
It represents an absurd defiance of the fact that office work will never go back to the way things were. Most companies are hybrid now and I know many software engineers who have turned down more money for a fully remote situation. A company I know well officially tells its employees that up to 2 days a week remote is acceptable, but they’ve also hired people who are fully remote from the outset (as long as they are good/qualified at their jobs).
If the city wants to set aside more money for affordable housing somewhere else or increase the bonus for having a certain threshold for affordable housing in general I’m all for it. The city does need to solve issue of developers warehousing affordable units though.
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