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Old Posted Dec 27, 2010, 3:48 PM
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It'd b cool if they could make it look natural growed and somehow like the battery park city looks like, but with more street level retail and not like a soulless urban project planned on the drawing board.
As the project nears closer to development, more specific renderings will be released, but it's all planned with street level retail and the entire district will probably be one of the better planned in the history of the city. A key to all of the developments is the planned Hudson Boulevard and Park. The good news is that the same team behind that park is also behind it's natural extension, which will be the open spaces of the railyards. Whether that maze is finalized (its on the site plan) remains to be seen, but I'm sure it will all come together.



http://www.hydc.org/html/project/hudson-park.shtml

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A world class, multi-disciplinary design team has been selected and will be led by Michael Van Valkenburgh Landscape Architects in collaboration with HYDC, the New York City Departments of Parks and Recreation, Transportation, City Planning and the Economic Development Corporation. The design work is scheduled to commence in mid-2010 and to be complete at the end of 2013 when the subway extension opens.

Construction of the first phase of the Park and Boulevard between West 33rd and West 36th Streets is expected to be complete by 2013. The second phase, between West 36th and West 39th Streets, will eventually connect to West 42nd Street on the north via a pedestrian bridge.

To the south, the Park and Boulevard will connect to the High Line and the public open space to be constructed at the Eastern Rail Yard. This continuous connection will contribute to a new north-south green corridor that will tie 42nd Street to Gansevoort Street across the neighborhoods of Hell's Kitchen, Chelsea, the Meatpacking District and the West Village.

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