De Blasio pushes ‘racial justice’ Soho development plan for 3,200 new apartments
By Julia Marsh
October 7, 2020 | 6:09pm | Updated
Mayor de Blasio on Wednesday pushed forward forward a city-led rezoning plan for Soho and Noho that would bring 3,200 new apartments including 800 affordable units to the upscale area plus an update of 50-year-old regulations for business owners and artists.
“This is a rezoning that’s been proposed to really create substantial community benefit, and there’s a lot of support on the ground for the idea that there needs to be affordable housing in every community, including those that are upper income,†de Blasio said about the plan during his daily press briefing from City Hall.
The proposed rezoning area sits roughly between Canal Street and Astor Place to the from Avenue of the Americas to the Bowery. Three “housing opportunity zones†on the edges would provide space for the new apartments and a “commercial corridor†between Broadway and Lafayette Street would allow for more retail.
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