seward park urban renewal area

' The following opinion piece was written by Brett Leitner, founder of SHARE, a neighborhood organization advocating for the redevelopment of the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area: Now is the Time for Progress on SPURA! The saga of SPURA has come...

Editor's note: The following opinion piece was written by Joel Feingold, a community organizer with GOLES (Good Old Lower East Side). It was posted on the Villager web site a short time ago. Feingold sent the article to The...

Monday night, 22 community activists will file into the Henry Street Settlement's gym, poised to make a big decision. After two-and-a-half years of deliberations, Community Board 3's land use committee is finally scheduled to vote on planning guidelines for...

Next Monday, Community Board 3's land use committee will meet to vote on proposed guidelines for the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area.  Last night, CB3 released a revised draft, incorporating some feedback received from committee and community members. According to...

A week from Monday, Community Board 3's SPURA task force is scheduled to vote on a set of planning guidelines for the Seward Park development site.  Late last night, a key player in CB3's deliberations, GOLES (Good Old Lower...

Quite a few people were rushing to submit comments about Community Board 3's proposed SPURA guidelines in time for yesterday's deadline.  One issue that's gotten some Lower East Side residents pretty riled up in recent weeks is the future...

A reminder: Anyone wishing to comment in writing on Community Board 3's guidelines for the redevelopment of the Seward Park site must do so by the close of business tomorrow. CB3 is planning to vote on the proposal, calling...

As we noted in an earlier post today, Community Board 3 is preparing for a big vote later this month regarding the future of the Seward Park redevelopment site. Affordable housing advocates and Grand Street co-op residents don't agree...

You don't need a crystal ball to predict it's going to be a pivotal month for SPURA, the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area. After two-and-a-half years of deliberations, Community Board 3 plans to vote on detailed guidelines for the...

Community Board 3's leaders have decided to go ahead with a vote next month on a set of guidelines for the Seward Park redevelopment site, more commonly known as SPURA.  In a memo to board members posted online, CB3...