Report on a Chelsea Blog about the GTS Proposal
Community Board 4 Votes Against General Theological Seminary’s Luxury Condo Development on 9th Ave.
The full board of Community Board 4, after hours of speeches, voted to approve the resolution against the General Theological Seminary’s application to built a 15 story luxury condo on their 9th Ave. property.
Before the meeting, we didn’t have any strong feelings one way or the other about this particular building, just a general opposition to the over-development of Chelsea. But the manner in which the Seminary people brought up this obvious red herring of the affordable housing just really rubbed us the wrong way. There was nothing about affordable housing in their plan and no way they could really pull it off. We felt that they were trying to seize the moral highground through this and other issues such as their support of gays and the homeless, perhaps because they knew that their plan was really just a thinly veiled money grab.
Follow this link for highlights: http://www.blogchelsea.com/arts-culture/community-board-4-votes-against-general-theological-seminarys-luxury-condo-plan/