Regarding the Garment District, I do sincerely hope the city has the sense to make sure a new wave of new residential construction does not come in the streetwall damaging form of the econobox hotel tower boom that has really done a great deal of aesthetic harm to the West 20s-30s. I would imagine residential projects would likely be better designed than the McSam nightmares that follow the lowest common DOB code denominator and set back a single maximum height shaft behind a courtyard or single story lobby flanked by the charm of half destroyed masonry party walls of older structures that were never intended to be exposed. The DOB setback requirements can be navigated by those with imagination and when it comes down to it, care, something the chain hotel developers know nothing of.
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