“Vanbarton Group and the architecture firm Gensler. They’re currently finishing up their transformation of 160 Water Street, a 1970s office tower in lower Manhattan that will become 586 apartments. This comes after Vanbarton worked with the architecture firm CetraRuddy to convert a similar building at 180 Water Street into 574 units back in 2017.”
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-nyc-office-buildings-towers-became-housing-2023-9
“Most of the estimated 96 million square feet of vacant office space in New York City would be prohibitively expensive, or illegal, to turn into housing.”
The FDIC needs the legal power to void any & all affordable housing requirements, non-structural integrity building code and energy efficiency requirements on buildings with mortgages issued by federally insured institutions.
Is the Gensler of the SEC related to the architecture firm?
“Gensler is a global architecture, design, and planning firm with 53 locations and 6,000+ professionals networked across the Americas, Europe, Greater China, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East. Founded in 1965, the firm works globally with more than 3,500 clients across 33 practice areas spanning the work, lifestyle, cities, and health sectors.”
I didn’t find the founder’s first name there.