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Well, you couldn’t be more wrong about that. For one thing, State law surpasses City law. It’s how the WTC got built in the first place. Residential was never a part of the program, nor was it allowed to be. It’s why they’re currently going through all of the zoning change approvals.
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But 5 WTC was designed by KPF as a mixed use residential and commercial building in February 2021 before the Coalition for an Affordable 5 WTC was formed
https://archinect.com/news/article/1...d-trade-center. Why would the architects design it as having residential units in the first place if this was before there was the push for residential space at 5 WTC?
It still seems like it was likely a zoning law or pressure from some politicians that resulted in the architects having 5 WTC include residential units, even though it was not stated outright
https://ny.curbed.com/2019/6/26/1875...roposals-cuomo. They had the option of making it a purely commercial development but for some reason they included residential units. Had they not done that, the current debate about how many residential units should be 'affordable' at 5 WTC probably wouldn't even be taking place.
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The bottom line is, if Downtown is to have a commercial future, it falls on the WTC.
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Unfortunately many right now (at least in the media and it seems the state government) see Midtown as having more of a commercial future and are insistent in Downtown becoming more of a residential area overall.
If 2 WTC is built soon, at least some amount of space in the current proposal plan suggests some of that space will be used for hotels and not offices.
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Originally Posted by NYguy
From some recent 5 WTC reading, it does seem like some hotel use may be back on the table. That was in the original plan, then was scrapped. The original WTC had it's own hotel too, so it could work here.
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