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Old Posted Jan 18, 2012, 11:14 PM
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Originally Posted by babybackribs2314 View Post
if anything needs a re-zoning it's downtown NYC/the FiDi... there is almost nowhere left to build! it would make sense to lift FAR limits on residential development...
If I'm not mistaken, there's about 4 to 5 msf of undeveloped residential air rights in the area south of the WTC. The City was supposed to come up with a plan to implement that, but it hasn't gone anywhere yet. In the meantime, we got this...
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=181550
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