Coalition fights proposed tower.(quashed proposed apartment tower in Meat Packing Distric and wants area designated a historic district)

From: Real Estate Weekly | Date: April 2, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

An unusual coalition of the Meat Packing District's business owners and preservationists have quashed a proposed apartment tower in the neighborhood and now want the area designated a historic district. The Save Gansevoort Market Taskforce is now seeking a historic of the neighborhood

The group, which comprises meatpackers, nightclub owners restaurateurs and preservaionists, last month forced Manhattan-based Landmark Development to withdraw its application for a city zoning variance, which it needed to build an apartment tower in the strictly commercial confines of the Meat ...

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