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Can Developers and Community Members Agree on the Tech Hub?

Business groups want approval of the tech hub without delay. Other community members and politicians support the project with some zoning restrictions.

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NEW YORK CITY—Interspersed with signs that read “Why won’t Mayor de Blasio work with neighborhoods?” more than 150 people filled the seats at the City Council’s subcommittee meeting last week. It was the final public hearing before the council votes on the Union Square Tech Hub in August.

From the audience reactions and hand waving, the vast majority of attendees were in support of the tech hub—contingent on some protections for the Greenwich Village and East Village neighborhoods.

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Betsy Kim

Betsy Kim was the bureau chief, East Coast, and New York City reporter for Real Estate Forum and GlobeSt.com. As a lawyer and journalist, Betsy has worked as the director of editorial and content for LexisNexis Lawyers.com, a TV/multi-media journalist for NBC and CBS affiliated TV stations in the Midwest, and an associate producer at Court TV.

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