These agreements allow developers to build larger towers and earn more revenue in exchange for providing public spaces.
“Developers received something that was disproportionately valuable,” said Jerold S. Kayden, a lawyer and professor of urban planning and design at Harvard University and an advocate for keeping privately owned public spaces open to the public.
Bonus Building Space The additional space that developers received is often far larger than the public spaces they provided.
Here are the 392 buildings with privately owned public spaces.
The violations fall under three main categories:Reduced Access In 2021, the plaza at 835 Sixth Avenue was fenced off.
Persons:
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