The United Nations, which is already spending $1.9 billion to renovate its New York headquarters, hopes to build a second high-rise nearby on two-thirds of an acre that is currently used as a city playground.
The new building, which could be as much as 900,000 square feet in area, could rise as high as the U.N.’s landmark Secretariat building, and according to a New York City real estate expert consulted by Fox News, could cost anywhere from $370 to $475 million—excluding land costs. Those figures do not include any additional costs for security features, which could hike the total much higher.
The United Nations hopes to build a second building in New York that could rise as high as its landmark Secretariat building.
The proposed addition to the U.N. headquarters could also pose extensive new security concerns for the U.N. and for New York City. Only last February, the U.S. government agreed to foot the bill for $100 million in security improvements to the current U.N. headquarters campus, after city officials expressed intense behind-the-scenes frustration at the vulnerabilities of the existing U.N. complex.
The property transfer deal that would make the new construction possible has been tried before, and failed. In 2005, a similar proposal was voted down by the New York State Legislature, in the face of widespread local opposition, in part stirred up by the U.N.’s perceived anti-Israel stance.
4 comments:
The U.S. should get the he!! out of the U.N. and the U.N. should get the he!! out of the U.S.
Agreed. The direction of the U.N. is directly opposite the Sovereignty of the U.S.
Amen. Take that U.N crap to Europe where the Muslims are about to take over.
The United NUT cases= UN
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