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Brokers Urged to Get Garment Center Word Out

NEW YORK CITY-Retail brokers say a change in zoning laws will boost Fashion Center retail; perhaps create the next SoHo.

By Tom Sosnowski | Updated on July 19, 2006

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NEW YORK CITY-Retail brokers gathered in the Fashion Center yesterday and were told to get the word out about the availability and potential of buildings throughout the city’s Garment District. The reoccurring theme was what is currently being said about this area was once used to describe Manhattan’s now hip and trendy areas that this area now mimics.

“There is mid-block loft potential in this area like no others left in Manhattan,” David Picket, president of Gotham Organization, Inc., and a speaker at the Luncheon. “This area is what SoHo and Tribecca were 20 years ago.”

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