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Old Posted May 7, 2009, 7:15 AM
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Haven't fully wrapped my head around this one, but since it has been moving along we can look at it more closely...
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Fordham University has developed a Master Plan to provide about 2.35 million square feet of additional gross floor area at its Lincoln Center campus on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

The campus occupies a superblock bounded by Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues and West 60th and West 62nd Streets immediately south of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The proposed campus development would include 1,607,460 gross square feet of additional academic and dormitory space. The Master Plan would also provide for about 736,504 gross square feet of new residential space (in two buildings on the northwest and southwest corners of the superblock to be built by private developers).

Development is expected to occur in two phases with Phase I complete by 2014 and Phase II (full development) complete by 2032.
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PHASE I by 2014
3 and 3a.....................Academic, Dormitory and Residential (293ft, 573 ft) 580 ft
4...............................Residential (661 ft) 630 ft
5, and 5a....................Academic, Dormitory (319 ft, 155 ft)

PHASE II by 2032
1............................... Academic, Dormitory (383 ft)
2................................Academic, Dormitory (470 ft)
6............................... Academic, Dormitory (342 ft)
7................................Academic (162 ft)


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City Planning Commission approves Fordham University's Lincoln Center expansion

BY Bill Egbert
April 23rd 2009

Fordham University's Lincoln Center mega-expansion took another step forward Wednesday, winning approval from the City Planning Commission.

The aim of the plan is to increase the size of Fordham's crowded West Side campus near the cultural center. Built for 3,500 students, it now serves 8,500.

The plan, however, has met resistance from local residents concerned about the project's scale.

"We are grateful for the time and energy chairperson Amanda Burden and her fellow commissioners and the staff have put into considering the university's plan," said Fordham's president, the Rev. Joseph McShane.

"And pleased that their decision recognizes the importance of Fordham's Lincoln Center campus to the university, local community and to the city."

The Jesuit university will pay for the expansion by selling to private developers the rights to build residential towers on the property, which covers W. 60th to W. 62nd Sts. and Amsterdam to Columbus Aves.

Community Board 7 had voted against the plan under the city's Uniform Land Use Review Procedure because neighborhood residents didn't want the city to approve the envisioned 50-to-60-story towers without first seeing detailed building plans.

But Fordham officials say they have yet to line up developers, and can't provide design details.


In an effort to accommodate Fordham and ease local concerns, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer crafted a compromise that reduced the planned height of towers along Columbus Ave., widened sidewalks and improved public access to the campus.

This alternative formed the basis of the plan approved by the Planning Commission yesterday, but many in the local community continue to oppose the project as designed. It still includes towers along Amsterdam Ave. that are double the height zoning regulations allow.

"Fordham's neighbors continue to have serious concerns about the size and scale of the fortress-like design and the lack of open space in the current proposal," said Michael Groll of Fordham Neighbors United, local residents opposed to the scale and density of the plan.

"While Fordham's development is undoubtedly important to the future of New York City," Groll said, "it should only take place if the university respects the future of the very neighborhood where it resides."

Community Board 7 wants a mandatory "second tier" review of specific building designs and while Stringer did get Fordham to agree to "consult" with the board on building design, there is as yet no binding requirement.

If the project wins final approval from the City Council, Fordham plans to begin construction as soon as possible.
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For an non-New Yorker, what's that housing project right behind LC? I didn;t know that was so close, kind of shocking. It predates LC is assume?
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Looks ambitious.

Those NIMBY groups are so pathetic.
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For an non-New Yorker, what's that housing project right behind LC? I didn;t know that was so close, kind of shocking. It predates LC is assume?
Lincoln Center was built as part of an "urban renewal" project. The development behind it is the Amsterdam Houses, one of the city's many "projects".
http://www.nysun.com/new-york/amster...0-years/59399/
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A nice dense project; I can't think of a single better place to build in the city other than on the grassy, anti-urban superblocks created in the 1960s. This one is particularly close to Midtown as well as Lincoln Center, so its presence undeveloped is inexcusable. I only wish they'd restore the street grid in the process. Also, It's frightening how long the project will take.
     
     
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Sorry, I'm a wee bit confused. So there's going to be residential towers specifically for people who do not go to Fordham, developed and funded by Fordham to make money?

I'd never expect a school to do such a thing.

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Nice to see Fordham's plan progressing.

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It's frightening how long the project will take.
Not really. All of the most visible aspects of the development are in the first phase, scheduled to be completed in 5 years or so.
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As nice as this project seems, it also seems like another typical one to be scaled back and eventually scrapped as time goes on. I know it's a negative but I've seen it happen time and time again, we all have.

Anyway though, if they can make it work then great, it'll be a nice spruce up of the area.
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Sorry, I'm a wee bit confused. So there's going to be residential towers specifically for people who do not go to Fordham, developed and funded by Fordham to make money?

I'd never expect a school to do such a thing.
No, Fordham would not be developing any residential towers. They would be providing the land necessary for outside developers to build towers in exchange for those developers funding the university's expansion project.
     
     
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^ That's correct, and you can bet the developers will be all over this one...

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The Jesuit university will pay for the expansion by selling to private developers the rights to build residential towers on the property, which covers W. 60th to W. 62nd Sts. and Amsterdam to Columbus Aves.


The first phase of the development:

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Wouldn't want to be living in the Alfred. Going to be a loud and dusty couple of years.
     
     
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Wouldn't want to be living in the Alfred. Going to be a loud and dusty couple of years.
And there goes that Lincoln Center view...
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Another view of the site, a little further away...

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Fordham's Lincoln Center project clears hurdle



By Erik Engquist
June 10, 2009


Fordham University reached an agreement Tuesday night with Councilwoman Gale Brewer that paves the way for a large expansion of the school’s Lincoln Center campus. The plan is set to be approved Wednesday by two City Council committees and then by the full council on June 30.

Ms. Brewer, D-Upper West Side, negotiated to reduce the heights of the buildings that Fordham will erect. She also got the school to agree to build a public atrium on Columbus Avenue and an escalator to lift people to elevated public open space.

The school first proposed a 2.3 million-square-foot development in 2005 to expand its campus between West 60th and West 62nd streets and Amsterdam and Columbus avenues. Neighborhood residents and elected officials objected to the size and scope of the project. Fordham said the expansion would accommodate the growing number of students at the campus.

The campus was built to serve 3,500 students but now serves more than twice as many. The expansion, which will take place over 25 years, will allow the campus to accommodate more than 10,000 students. It includes a new law school, dorms, parking garages and residential towers.

The local community board voted in January to recommend that the council not approve the special permits Fordham needs to undertake the work. The school has made additional concessions since then.

The agreement with Ms. Brewer paves the way for city approval because the full council generally votes to support the position of the member who represents the affected district. The measure is to be voted on Wednesday by a zoning subcommittee and then the Land Use Committee.
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