A proposal to replace a public plaza with an office building in Lower Manhattan brings up the question: does the downtown belong to residents or to businesses?
Apartment dwellers need open space. Investment banks need trading space. And in Lower Manhattan, where every inch isprecious, the two needs are colliding over an elevated one-acre public plaza.The Goldman Sachs Group proposes to eliminate the 28-year-old plaza...and replace it with a 240-foot-high building...Which invites a question as the fight over 55 Water Street goes before the City Planning Commission today: just whose downtown is it, anyway? By community, does one mean the residential pioneers who came to settle an embryonic neighborhood, or a business that can trace its history in Lower Manhattan to 1869, when Marcus Goldman set up shop on Pine Street?
Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan
FULL STORY: Goldman Sachs Seeks to Turn Open Space Into Trading Space
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