The mayor introduced the proposals to the City Council last week that would terminate the Pershing/King TIF district, the Harlem Industrial TIF district, the Irving Park/Elston TIF district and the South Works Industrial TIF district on Dec. 31 2019.

The $19.5-million project will total 17,750 square feet above the hospital's emergency department and will combine heart and vascular services on one floor to address the growing number of procedures performed at the medical center, hospital officials state.

Does it make sense to keep building residential tracts in potential fire zones or continuing to develop oceanfront high rises?