In its bid to gain community favor for its 300,000-square-foot addition to the Chelsea Market, Jamestown Properties plans to attend a community board meeting tonight where locals are slated to sound off on the proposal, GlobeSt.com reported.

Jamestown bought out its partners, Angelo, Gordon & Co., Belvedere Capital and Irwin Cohen, in the mixed-use building for $225 million in February, and immediately embarked on a campaign to expand the market. The glass addition to the brick structure, at 75 Ninth Avenue, would have hotel and office space.

The addition is not expected to be approved without at least some resistance. [more]

The city’s Department of City Planning is proposing charging a steep
increase in filing fees that would add nearly $200,000 to an
application for some of the largest projects filed in the five
boroughs, documents show. The base fees for projects 2.5 million square feet or greater that
require both land use and environmental reviews would rise by $183,275,
or 62 percent, to at least $474,225, according to figures from the
Department of City Planning calendar published Friday. The hikes are part of wider increases in the city’s vetting processes
that are used to manage development. The jumps in the Uniform Land Use
Review Procedure, or ULURP, and the City Environmental Quality Review,
were first proposed by the Department of City Planning at the City
Planning Commission May 4 meeting and are scheduled to be discussed at
a public hearing June 17. The rules could be implemented as early as
August following a vote by the commission, an agency spokesperson said. [more]