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Originally Posted by J.OT13
I'm not sure if they even had approval for even the parking garage tbh. In any case, they built the foundations and supports within the parking garage for this specific building. Had this hotel been rejected (which we all knew that it wouldn't), Claridge would have had to design something new with just about the exact same footprint.
I'm fully supportive of this development fwiw. It just seems unfair that Claridge seems to have more latitude to overstep the rules and procedures than any other developers. We've even seen clear preferential treatment from City, like the time Claridge proposed the 40 storey Icon and the City told them they could build 45 (while rejecting Mastercraft-Starwood's 35 diagonally across the street not long before).
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Hyatt House is still not approved, though it doesn't appear that it won't be. The combined parking garage project was approved on Nov. 19, 2025.
I believe that a developer is allowed to excavate and perform site servicing prior to receiving site plan approval, which certainly seems to have been the case here, as they were digging in July 2024. It's also likely that the portion of the garage under 137 George received prior approval in 2013. So it may be just that portion under Hyatt House that is actually affected by the Nov 2025 approval. At any rate, it's all well underway.
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