Posted Jan 29, 2025, 8:27 PM
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Gansevoort Square residential tower plan advances despite local councilman's pushback
NICK GARBER
EDDIE SMALL
Jan29, 2025
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Mayor Eric Adams' administration is advancing plans to build a large residential tower on the city-owned site of Manhattan's last meatpacking plant — but is contending with some unexpected opposition from the local City Council member.
On Wednesday morning the city released a request for proposals for its Gansevoort Square project, which calls for developers to build up to 600 housing units and ground-floor retail on the site, located on Little West 12th Street between 10th Avenue and Washington Street in the Meatpacking District. At least half of the residential units ideally would be permanently affordable, and the city has specified that they should be funded by the developer rather than public subsidies.
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EDC expects to choose the winning team by the end of the year. Officials then hope to see the land-use review process wrap up by the end of 2026 and the project completed by mid- to late-2027.
The housing site covers 10,000 square feet of the roughly 66,000-square-foot block. Because the city is giving itself a small section of the public site, a developer will need to build tall — more than 500 feet high, according to a December presentation by EDC — to accommodate the 600 homes that the city is requesting.
That has sparked early opposition from preservationists — complicating the political landscape for local Councilman Erik Bottcher, who will get final say on the project once it reaches the City Council next year. The neighborhood group Village Preservation has come out against the project, labeling the tower “ludicrously oversized.”
On Tuesday, the eve of the RFP’s release, Bottcher posted on X that he had asked the EDC to pause the solicitation, calling the planned tower “obviously out of scale for the Meatpacking District.” The stance was unexpected, given that Bottcher has typically aligned himself with pro-development causes.
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