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Originally Posted by NYguy
There are smaller versions of the Hudson Yards in the city that we don't really talk about much because they are nowhere near the scale of this one. Then on the other hand, there is the MASSIVE Sunnyside Yard development that will take decades to build out, and they are nowhere near even beginning movement on that. As far as Manhattan goes, there is still the Con Ed site to be built out. There are rezonings that will consists of multiple developments. The (re)rises of East Midtown is really just beginning. The Penn Station redevelopment district will kick off eventually. The City will constantly evolve and adapt. And it has to if it is to stay healthy.
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Thing is, I don't exactly trust the politicians in charge to make the correct decision(s) on these things, especially the biggest picture choices. Some of them even actively oppose virtually all development on the offset by vice of being overly concerned on the environment and having unrealistic expectations about it. Especially with Sunnyside Yards, I mean Amazon HQ2 would have been the perfect anchor to that whole development, but you had so many other social groups dragging that whole deal down, it just frosts me. There's a reasonable distrust and doubt due to bait and switch by a handful of bad actors, but that's no reason to blitz the whole development and extinguish the flames of economic advantages that it would bring.