Yeah, clearly Manhattan officials didn't learn from Amazon. Just because you're New York doesn't mean a lucrative company won't leave from over pestering. Chase has a history here but it's no longer Chase Manhattan. If there is a better place to go, they'll bail. However unlikely it is for them to halt plans (it seemed unlikely Amazon would), this build is already complicated enough and the building has yet to come down. Also, wasn't it reported that this tower will have a new entrance to the Metro North concourse?
Chase’s new Midtown HQ could be a supertall with new Metro-North access
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The purpose of the amendment is to shrink the amount of public space that would be provided with the new skyscraper. Under the adopted Midtown East rezoning plan, any new buildings in the area on a lot of more than 65,000 square feet must provide at least 10,000 square feet of publicly accessible open space.
Chase’s text amendment seeks to bring that number down to 7,000 square feet, but would result in what the amendment says would be a “a new and different form of year-round public open space for the area” that would be “attractive to the general user population and help enliven the Madison Avenue corridor.” It could be open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., with retail space and the ability to host private events. It would also have a direct underground connection to Metro-North trains at Grand Central Terminal, just a few blocks away.
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