Consultant letter re WTC cleanup questions, Oct 2002

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

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October 01, 2002

NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission Municipal Building One Centre Street- 9th Floor North New York, New York 10007

Attention : John J. Graham e: , 3 Nassau Street, Special Projects Director 135-139 Fulton Street. Preservation 28-34 Ann Street. New York, New York

Dear Mr. Graham,

Just to follow up our meeting last Friday, September 27, 2002, enclosed please find a copy of the letter we wrote to Mr. Radhakrishan at NYC DEP regarding the above property. We have been contracted by S.C.P.O.G. Inc. the owners of the property, to do a condition survey, of all the exterior facades and to make recommendations for its repair, window restoration, weather stripping and all other recommendations for the restoration of this historic structure, The intention of this survey is to secure a permit from New York City Landmark Preservation Commission for the restoration and also to file a Local Law 11 Report to NYC Dept. of Buildings.

The Owners of this property had planed to do an exterior restoration of the property but since the WTC disaster all original plans have now turned in a new direction due to the contaminants through out the building. We are hopeful that working together with you, the DEP and the Buildings Department that we might be able to convince FEMA to fund this property separately from the other clean up projects in the area, due to the intricacies of this facade.

The Owners had purchased the property after the current paint job was in place. Due to high vacancy rates in recent years the Owners were apprehensive about making a major capital improvement to the facade. Since the WTC the vacancy rate in the financial district have reached twenty to sixty percent in many buildings. In recent months, many tenants have not renewed their leases and

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