The City Planning Department and the Municipal Art Society collaborated to upgrade the Jets' proposal with a more rational use of existing streets and facilities.
"While there has been a lot of activity in older parts of the city, a large part of the growth has been from construction in more suburban parts of the city, " says Steven Lebofsky, an urban development specialist who works in Kansas City's Urban Planning Department.
The Department of City Planning will be releasing more detailed design guidelines on April 8 in its race to get the rezoning certified before the Bloomberg administration disperses.
The Department of City Planning report even cites conversion to hotels and condos as one of the drags on the ability of Midtown East to compete with the likes of Shanghai and Hong Kong.
The Department of City Planning is recommending that the City Council renew the special permit for the self-proclaimed "World's Most Famous Arena" for only 15 years, rather than "in perpetuity, " as requested by the Madison Square Garden Co.
"I am extremely disappointed to learn that the developer of Riverside Center has chosen not to retain Christian de Portzamparc as architect for this project, " said Amanda Burden, director of the Department of City Planning, in an emailed statement Friday.
Covering 78 blocks that fan out around Grand Central and up Park Avenue, from East 39th Street to East 57th Street, and from Fifth Avenue as far as Second Avenue, the rezoning proposal was first presented by the Department of City Planning in July 2012 and updated with more details on Feb. 28.
He borrowed his way through Yale business school, then worked at Boston Consulting Group before landing in the corporate planning department at Circuit City, the electronic-appliance vendor.
He borrowed his way through Yale business school, then worked at Boston Consulting Group before landing in the corporate planning department at Circuit City (nyse: CC - news - people ), the electronic-appliance vendor.
Mr. ROBERT CEVERO (Chair, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley): Hi.
Robert Cervero is chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley.
"We are trying to confirm the online rumors, " said a woman at the general office of Wuxi city's family planning committee, a department under the municipal government.
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