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Originally Posted by yankeesfan1000
Does anyone know if Silverstein wanted to make this a mixed use building, how he would have to go about doing that?
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Silverstein leases this space from the Port Authority.
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Originally Posted by jsbrook
I can't see why it would not be appropriate. At one point, 5 World Trade Center was proposed as a residential and hotel supertall designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox. Zoning 2WTC to be mixed use would not be very hard.
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If it were private land, it would be
possible, though not necessarily preferable.. But people forget this is a Port Authority owned development. It was a stretch for them to be in real estate at all. The tower 5 site is actually the site of another office building, not the original WTC site.
But I don't see why people are itching to get a mixed-use or residential tower built on this site at all. As if we aren't getting enough of that built Downtown already, both with new construction and conversions. There is too much short term thinking, and not enough long term thinking about the health of the City. When there is no more land left for development, and buildings have to be demolished and torn down to make way for new office buildings, people want to scream about how the city is destroying it's own legacy. Yet here we have a perfect site for a large office building - along with 15 Penn the largest of the remaining sites for office construction, and they want to cut the commercial component or scrap the office outright, just to get something built
today. Such short term thinking.