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Originally Posted by NYer34
Fully agree. We treat our city like a junkyard. Look at London as an example of how a thriving financial center and metropolis can do better.
I'm always shocked at how - amid large numbers of empty lots, postwar dreck, etc. - some people want to tear up our finite-and-dwindling pre-war architectural heritage and replace it with a Tijuana's worth of McSams.
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In addition to what NYguy said above, not every property is for sale and developers own those buildings that are getting demolished. In layman's terms, you develop on land that you own or what's feasible to buy.
Those little plots of empty land in Midtown (which by the way, there aren't that many), may not be great to develop skyscrapers on.
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