- Target:
- Decision Maker Bill de Blasio Mayor of New York City
- Region:
- GLOBAL
- Website:
- www.savethegarmentcenter.org
In 1987, Mayor Koch designated a Garment Center zone in Manhattan. However, this zoning has not been enforced and now the Mayor want's to lift the zoned sector.
New York is the fashion capital of the world, and the hundreds of small businesses in the Garment Center are the industry’s backbone, The Garment Center businesses to need The Center’s sample rooms, cut and sew contractors, pattern making services and fabric and trim suppliers are crucial to our company’s ability to develop new products, to carry out quick-to-market, reorder and high end production.
There are many fashion companies that rely on a functioning Garment Center, yet we are beginning to see alarming numbers of support businesses lose their leases. We therefore respectfully ask that the revised zoning will provide enough space for a sufficient production and supplier core, there are still more than 1 million sq. ft. in production and logistical support in use in the Garment Center Losing much more of the space that these support businesses currently occupy, which is a small fraction of the Center’s overall space, would harm the fashion industry in ways that no one can foresee.
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The Save The Garment Center petition to Decision Maker Bill de Blasio Mayor of New York City was written by Save the Garment Center and is in the category City & Town Planning at GoPetition.