155-157 Irving Avenue site plan extension

The former trustee didn't oppose this extension but urged the board to adopt published criteria for judging future extension requests — construction documents, financing, institutional investors, brownfield credits — so a future denial can survive legal challenge.

A Palace Place resident described the overgrown, smelly, boarded-up vacant property next to her street as a hazard that attracts drugs and alcohol, and said pedestrians walking to the train are nearly hit daily under the messy one-way layout.

The applicant's attorney detailed two pages of work done — IDA benefits, accepted DEC brownfield application, 75% construction drawings peer-reviewed, Veolia will-serve letter secured — while acknowledging the Con Edison letter is still pending.

The Titanium principal argued the delays were strategic — trying to buy neighboring North Pearl properties for a 1:1 parking ratio — and pointed to no mortgage, $42.5 million paid off elsewhere, and a full bid-ready construction set, asking for just one one-year extension.