I don’t think anyone knows what happens with office space. In any case, new office space has been faring very well, and 190k of office is nothing. There’s something like a billion square feet of office space in Manhattan and adjacent areas.
If there really is some permanent office apocalypse, there will still be a need for new office space, BTW. We’ve had a retail apocalypse for 20 years now, and new retail still gets built.
It will be interesting to see if Marte loses today! He’s apparently got a close race!
If there’s one thing 9/11 families want, it’s to live at the exact site where their family members were tragically murdered. Solid logic, NIMBYs!
i’ve always wondered why they insist on families living there. makes no sense. my dad was there that day and to this day he absolutely refuses to step foot in lower manhattan. especially the WTC.
They probably don’t consider the site of the Deutsche Bank as tragic…yet it’s RIGHT NEXT to the site and they left that old building up with asbestos for years after the attacks
I’m just going to come right out and say it:
This building will never be 100% affordable and 100% built. The money isn’t there, and demanding that the developers just “figure it out” lest their project be held hostage indefinitely just betrays their priorities.
Let’s get it built first and everything else will follow.
P.S. I’m relieved to see that they plan to build a pedestrian bridge connecting the upper lobby to Liberty Park.
5 WTC just got approved, another piece of the puzzle coming together at the WTC site. Now just 2 wtc hopefully we here something soon.
Tremendous news. Came out of nowhere.
NYC! Lower Manhattan! America!
They’re going with the 1/3rd affordable housing units option.
Awesome! Finally!
Construction starting next year, hopefully no further delays.
Thank God for Gov. Hochul!!!
Though, I stand by my statement that forcing 9/11 families to live in the WTC is really stupid.
Good news overall. Finally!
What a huge relief!
As for 2WTC, my gut tells me that Larry would spend his own personal fortune to get it built if he feels the end is nigh—perhaps the tower is in his will.
By the way, those new renders you posted back in September don’t seem to be on the 5WTC website, just the older renders lacking the Liberty Park bridge. What gives?
There’s a 5WTC website?
Yeah, well, technically the architect’s website: 5 World Trade Center
Ah, I thought you meant the tower had it’s own dedicated website.
That’s because the renders/plans from TheBigApple’s September post are screenshots from a zoom presentation, essentially leaked if the presentation was not public, they are not professional renders meant to be seen by the public eye, they are internal/wip renders.
I only assumed that the leaked renders were more up-to-date than the official public renders because they surfaced over a year later, but now I’m wondering…is the pedestrian bridge to Liberty Park still indeed the plan?
On a side note, I see the Port Authority’s board still has to vote on 5WTC, but I can’t imagine they’d vote it down at this point.
The leaked renders may have been newer but that doesn’t necessarily mean they were more UTD than the professional public renders. The bridge for the most part has always been a part of the KPF plan, but it is also not visible in the professional renders the public has seen because it is out of view, but that doesnt mean it’s not there.
In regards to the vote that still needs to occur, I think you mean Public Authorities control board though, which is a different state entity than the Port Authority.