Meatpacking District tower up for vote

Darryl Romanoff hopes to turn one of his family’s Meatpacking District plants, at 13th and Washington streets, into a 13-story tower, a proposal that will go up for a vote by the city’s Board of Standards and Appeals tomorrow. Romanoff’s planned tower is four stories taller than allowed by local zoning, but the developer said a smaller tower would not be economically viable due to the costs of environmental clean up and of building next to the High Line. Romanoff said he wants the building’s tenants to be from creative fields.