NY City approves glass tower for Meatpacking District
The New York City Board of Standards and Appeals has granted developer Romanoff Equities five variances to build a 10-storey glass tower on a prime site in the fashionable Meatpacking District next to the High Line. The approval which delighted many, including Diane von Furstenberg, a long time tenant in the District who spoke on the project’s behalf, was met with opposition from the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, which characterized the project as out of scale for the neighbourhood and won a small victory getting its height reduced from twelve stories to ten. Designed by Jamie Carpenter of James Carpenter Design Associates with Randy Gerner of Gerner, Kronick + Valcarcel, the building will replace a former meatpacking plant and house 116,000 square feet of retail, showroom and office space. Carpenter, who is known for explorations in structural glass and lig

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