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Old Posted Jan 31, 2013, 7:53 PM
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/01/ny...ects.html?_r=0

Developers and Unions Seek Relaxed Limits on Midtown Projects

By CHARLES V. BAGLI
January 31, 2013

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...prominent developers have forged an unusual alliance with labor and the construction industry to lobby for rules to allow a new crop of skyscrapers around Grand Central Terminal.

They are seeking to go further than the Bloomberg administration, which has proposed zoning changes that would enable developers to build office towers in some cases twice the size currently permitted. The new alliance is pressing the administration to loosen its proposed rules so that more skyscrapers can be built on more sites, at a quicker pace and at a lower cost.

Nervous that the Council could scuttle the proposal and eager to make changes to the city’s plan, the real estate industry decided to build a united front with unions representing construction, building maintenance and hotel workers. Real estate executives credit Rob Speyer, a developer and the new chairman of the Real Estate Board, with the new strategy. “Business and labor have a lot of common interests,” Mr. Speyer said. “We want to focus on our common ground. We’re sending a strong message to elected officials that labor and business are united on a given issue.”
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