SoHo Alliance seeks BSA intervention to halt construction. On October 26, 2007, the SoHo Alliance Community Group filed an appeal with BSA in an attempt to thwart construction of the Trump SoHo, a 42-story condominium hotel that would be located at 246 Spring Street, between Varick Street and Sixth Avenue. The appeal comes after the Department of Buildings denied the Alliance’s request to revoke approval for the condominium hotel.

Buildings approved the plans for the Trump SoHo on September 28, 2007, but required that the developer file a restriction against the property that prohibits owners of any one of the condominium hotel’s 413 residential units from living there for more than 29 consecutive days in any 36-day period, or a total of about 120 days per calendar year. The restriction, according to Buildings, put the Trump SoHo under the transient hotel exception to the zoning district’s general prohibition against residential developments. Under the approval, Buildings would conduct audits and issue financial penalties to enforce the restriction. (read more…)