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Originally Posted by rocketphish
Just the parking garage, which technically isn't part of this project, but this separate one. I imagine that they divided it up this way so that the drawn-out approval process for Hyatt House would not hold up construction of the 137 George St. building. |
I'm not sure if they even had approval for even the parking garage tbh. In any case, they built the foundations and supports within the parking garage for this specific building. Had this hotel been rejected (which we all knew that it wouldn't), Claridge would have had to design something new with just about the exact same footprint.
I'm fully supportive of this development fwiw. It just seems unfair that Claridge seems to have more latitude to overstep the rules and procedures than any other developers. We've even seen clear preferential treatment from City, like the time Claridge proposed the 40 storey Icon and the City told them they could build 45 (while rejecting Mastercraft-Starwood's 35 diagonally across the street not long before).
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