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University forum opened up earlier this week, in addition to buildings for the school of the arts and brain research that opened in 2016. Two new buildings for the business school are under construction and they will open 2021. The entire 17 acre complex will be completely developed by 2030 and that's from 125th to 133rd on the West side of Broadway, and from 131st-135th on the East Side of Broadway. Major development in West Harlem.
Love it. Single story drive-thru's have no place in Manhattan. These are the type of lots they should build and build bigger on. BTW, the McDonald's will be back on the ground floor of the new building, a win-win.
Love it. Single story drive-thru's have no place in Manhattan. These are the type of lots they should build and build bigger on. BTW, the McDonald's will be back on the ground floor of the new building, a win-win.
Next to the 34th story building, there will also be a hotel and a conference center.
^ Reading that link to the Columbia Spectator article makes my blood boil. Particularly this part:
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Citing the building’s height, New York City council member Mark Levine, who represents Morningside Heights, said the proposed high-rise exemplifies the fight to rezone the neighborhood in order to limit building heights as part of the solution to address overdevelopment in the area. He also noted that the building, while providing housing for Columbia students and faculty, would not help with the affordable housing shortage.
“This is a community that is under siege by overdevelopment,” Levine said. “The project going up in 125th [has] no affordable housing for our community.”
Mark Levine is such a tool. All he does is stifle, downsize and kill many development projects throughout the city. He is nothing more than a mouthpiece for NIMBYs.
Every time the market tries to meet demand for housing and office space in this city, there's always some complaint from a small but vocal NIMBY group (and their pandering local politician) that there's overdevelopment. The city then proceeds to downzone the area. Do this all over the city and it's no wonder much needed new housing units are in such short supply and is so expensive.
^ Reading that link to the Columbia Spectator article makes my blood boil. Particularly this part:
Mark Levine is such a tool. All he does is stifle, downsize and kill many development projects throughout the city. He is nothing more than a mouthpiece for NIMBYs.
Every time the market tries to meet demand for housing and office space in this city, there's always some complaint from a small but vocal NIMBY group (and their pandering local politician) that there's overdevelopment. The city then proceeds to downzone the area. Do this all over the city and it's no wonder much needed new housing units are in such short supply and is so expensive.
Levine is irrelevant to Columbia who has enough lawyers and resources and they are able to fight and get what they want. Keep in mind they used eminent domain to get what they want. Bloomberg rezoned Manhattanville from industrial use to facilitate Columbia's expansion. They've always gotten ALL that they WANT.
That's very different from developers with less resources and political connections who can get more easily blocked by NIMBYs. Columbia has ALWAYS ignored NIMBYs and ditto NYU.
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Either lots of new investors or brown nosers. 
Seems to be the new "hot stock" of the future.
