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TRANSPARENT “FRONT PORCH” ADDITION
Just one month after the Thomas Heatherwick -designed Pier 55 project in
New York City was declared dead in the water, opposing parties seem to
have come to an agreement that will allow the project to continue, thanks to
the intervention of New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo.
In early September, after opponents of the project, including the City Club
of New York.Developer Douglas Durst and environmental activists.had
successfully mired the project in a legal battle, the project’s primary backer
Barry Diller decided to pull the plug. But now, in an agreement brokered by
the governor, the project will be allowed to move forward in exchange for a
promise to complete the 4.5-mile-long Hudson River Park – a project which
began in 1998 with an intended completion date of 2003.