Hudson Square Rezoning Clears Hurdle

NEW YORK CITY-The City Planning Commission voted Wednesday to approve a rezoning for Hudson Square, the formerly industrial Midtown South neighborhood that’s now home to a high-profile list of creative and tech companies. It marks the next-to-last stop on the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure trail; the proposal now goes to the City Council for a thumbs-up or thumbs-down vote within 50 days.

This past November, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer gave his conditional approval for the plan put forth by Trinity Real Estate, the real estate arm of Trinity Church. Stringer asked for a height reduction in the residential towers the rezoning would potentially bring to one-quarter of  the district, the elimination of a downzoned subdistrict and a continued focus on mitigating open-space impacts. In his comments, Stringer noted that without a rezoning, the neighborhood would likely be developed with out-of-scale hotel projects.