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				Video of the City Council hearing on the proposed Chelsea Market rezoning plan 10/23/12 Chelsea Market City Council Hearing Photos 10/23/12 Chelsea Market Upzoning Press Conference Photos 09/28/12 Views of Proposed Chelsea Market Additions Letter to Speaker Quinn regarding rezoning agreement concerns 01/22/13 Council Speaker Quinn press release about Chelsea Market rezoning 10/25/12 Agreements concerning Chelsea Market rezoning 10/25/12 City Council’s modifications to the Chelsea Market plan 10/25/12 GVSHP’s testimony to the City Council 10/23/12 Letter to Speaker Quinn from Community Groups urging rejection of rezoning plan 10/08/12 Download the flyer urging Speaker Quinn to reject the rezoning plan GVSHP & Save Chelsea’s Letter to Speaker Quinn urging rejection of the rezoning plan 09/05/12 GVSHP’s Testimony to the City Planning Commission in Opposition to the Upzoning 07/25/12 Borough President’s Recommendation on Chelsea Market ULURP 07/18/12 Map of Gansevoort Market State & National Register of Historic Places district, which includes Chelsea Market 04/11/07 GVSHP’s nomination of the Meatpacking District for the State and National Registers of Historic Places, which includes Chelsea Market 12/21/06

Chelsea Market is a superb example of successful adaptive re-use of a historic complex. GVSHP successfully nominated the complex to the State and National Registers of Historic Places in 2007, and had proposed the complex for inclusion in the NYC Gansevoort Market Historic District, but without explanation the City declined to include the complex in the district designated in 2003.

We believe that a proposed rezoning and resultant large-scale additions to the complex should not be approved by the City. The additions would mar the historic integrity of the complex and loom over the adjacent High Line. They would also be highly visible over the adjacent low-rise Gansevoort Market Historic District. And the very large complex, which already generates a significant amount of traffic in the neighborhood, is already built as large as the zoning allows; the new owner/developer is seeking a 50% increase in the zoning to add several hundred thousand square feet of hotel and office space to the complex, which we believe is unnecessary and unjustified.