More on the Trump SoHo Foreclosure
An object lesson in lack of government oversight
Op-Ed BY ANDREW BERMAN, Executive Director, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation
The recent news that the Trump Soho Condo-Hotel is going into foreclosure and will be sold inspires some reflection. How did we get saddled with this 454-foot-tall eyesore anyway, and how was something so clearly wrong ever allowed to be built?
The story starts when The Donald first announced plans for the Trump Soho on the finale of "The Apprentice" in May 2006, and ends with a stunning lack of appropriate government oversight.
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Trump SoHo: Up In The Air
by Daniel Fitzsimmons
When the mega-project was built, Donald Trump agreed to residency requirements to placate neighbors. But those rules were ignored, and pressure is building again as the project seeks a buyer.
With the Trump SoHo set to foreclose, and the prospect of new owners acquiring the property, members of a historical society in Greenwich Village want the city to enforce residency requirements that enabled the 46-story condo-hotel to be built in the first place -- stipulations that they say the city failed to enforce since it opened in 2010.
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