Coalition fights proposed tower.An unusual coalition of the Meat Packing District's business owners and preservationists have quashed a proposed apartment tower in the neighborhood and now want the area designated a historic district. The Save Gansevoort Market Taskforce is now seeking a historic of the neighborhood The group, which comprises meatpackers, nightclub owners restaurateurs and preservaionists, last month forced Manhattan-based Landmark Development to withdraw its application for a city zoning variance The discrepancy between what a party to a lawsuit alleges will be proved in pleadings and what the party actually proves at trial. In Zoning law, an official permit to use property in a manner that departs from the way in which other property in the same locality , which it needed to build an apartment tower in the strictly commercial confines con·fine v. con·fined, con·fin·ing, con·fines v.tr. 1. To keep within bounds; restrict: Please confine your remarks to the issues at hand. See Synonyms at limit. of the Meat Packing District. The city will decide if Landmark can resubmit Verb 1. resubmit - submit (information) again to a program or automatic system feed back return, render - give back; "render money" its application in the future. Landmark says it now hopes to put a hotel on the property at 848 Washington St., which, as a business, opponents would be unable to stop. If granted a historic designation, any changes or alterations to buildings within the Meat Packing District - defined roughly as the area bordered by West 15th, Washington, Hudson and Gansevoort streets - would have to get approval from the city. Any demolition Demolition is the opposite of construction: the tearing-down of buildings and other structures. It contrasts with deconstruction, which is the taking down of a building while carefully preserving valuable elements for re-use. of buildings would have to go before a public hearing. "You've got a neighborhood that has a tightly unified theme The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. Please help [ improve the introduction] to meet Wikipedia's layout standards. You can discuss the issue on the talk page. in terms of its look and history," said Andrew Berman, executive director of the task force. "And that's exactly what historic districts are meant to protect." Opponents say the area isn't worthy of the designation. |
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