Posted Jan 31, 2025, 1:25 PM
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Battles over building heights are here to stay
EDDIE SMALL
Jan 30, 2025
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….. That brief détente appears to be over now, though, at least in the Meatpacking District. The city released its request for proposals for the Little West 12th Street site on Wednesday and would like any project to include up to 600 residential units. This would require the tower to stand more than 500 feet tall, according to the city's Economic Development Corp. Prominent local organization Village Preservation has called it "ludicrously oversized," while the normally pro-development Bottcher has called it "obviously out of scale for the Meatpacking District" and asked the city to pause the development process.
This resistance certainly does not doom the project. The city did indeed issue its RFP despite Bottcher's objections and said it hopes to have the whole project finished by the end of 2027, indicating it remains confident in its prospects. The building may ultimately end up shorter, but even if it doesn't and Bottcher remains opposed, the council could just approve it anyway, as it did with the aforementioned Blood Center project. Former local Councilman Ben Kallos insisted that building was too tall up until the final vote, but the council still voted in favor of it — the only recent notable instance of the body overriding its tradition of "member deference."
The height argument is like a villain from a slasher movie franchise: It just won't die. However, it is unlikely to kill the Meatpacking District project.
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