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Originally Posted by JR Ewing
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It would be cool if the subway was extended. Ah well. I would think it would be nice to live at a Manhattan residential tower with an attached subway stop. It sounds from this document like they wouldn't be building residential if the subway were planned to be extended to this city block.
"The assumed office development on this site that was studied in the HY FGEIS was predicated on a Tenth Avenue/West 41st Street station for the No. 7 subway line extension, which would have placed an entrance either directly on the project site or just across the street. Convenient access to the subway is a key component of attracting office tenants and developers of office buildings. However in 2007, after the enactment of the Hudson Yards rezoning, the plan to construct the Tenth Avenue/West 41st Street subway station was placed on‐hold by the MTA due to a lack of funding. While some efforts have been made since then to secure the necessary funding for the subway station, these efforts have not succeeded. At this time there is no projected source for the roughly $1 billion needed to complete the station. The possibility that the Tenth Avenue/West 41st Street station would be built in the near future appears to be unlikely.
The applicant also believes the development site is less attractive for office development due to the presence of easements for both the No. 7 subway extension and Amtrak directly beneath the project site (refer to Figure 4). The easements cross in the center of the site, making it extremely difficult (if not impossible) to locate a commercial building core for a large floor‐plate office building on the site, as commercial buildings require substantially more vertical circulation than residential buildings due to their higher population densities. Additionally, the two easements preclude the development of large amounts of below‐grade space, which typically provide the mechanical and back‐of‐house services critical to support large office buildings."
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