Advocacy

Since its inception, the Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association has advanced Rockefeller’s vision of Lower Manhattan as a global model for a modern central business district.  The organization has been an early and effective champion of these projects and initiatives which have sharpened the Downtown skyline and population.

• District-defining commercial, residential and institutional developments including:

– The World Trade Center
– Battery Park City
– South Street Seaport
– The Michael Schimmel Center at Pace Universit
– New York-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital
– Battery Maritime Building
– Manhattan Hospital

• Smart and sustainable infrastructure such as:

– The adaptation of “green” building technology for new projects and retrofits
– The East River Waterfront Esplanade and Piers Project
– The redevelopment of Battery Park

• Post 9/11 economic revitalization:

– World Trade Center rebuilding
– The creation of the WTC & Fulton Transit Hubs
– Direct airport access
– 2005 Lower Manhattan “Marshall Plan”
– Fiterman Hall reconstruction