NEW YORK CITY-Taking into account concerns voiced by the community, Jamestown Properties has unveiled a new design for its expansion atop Chelsea Market. On the heels of a November public hearing on the matter, this design was altered in the hopes of addressing community concerns.

Among the changes: a 20-foot reduction in the expansion’s height, a reduction in the number of floors, lowering the 10th Avenue street wall from 210 feet to 180 feet and the addition of another building setback.

In a prepared statement about the expansion, Jamestown Properties managing director Michael Phillips said that the “expansion is an opportunity to add over 1,000 permanent jobs in Chelsea and the city in industries like technology and media,” though others disasgree with this assessment.

Andrew Berman, the executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, and an outspoken critic of the expansion plans, says those jobs are not so much added as taken from other areas in the city. He says that the issue of jobs creation is “an argument that people will throw around,” but that in actuality they “are siphoning jobs away from other parts of the city where they are better.”

As for the nuts and bolts of the new design—it will contain nine stories of office space with floorplates that range from 34,000 square feet to 17,000 square feet on the top floors. It will sit on top of the Chelsea Market along 10th Avenue.

Studio Architecture principal David Burns said in a statement that the “original design was intended to contrast with the nature of the existing building,” while the “new design creates a dialogue with the industrial features of Chelsea Market, and fits within the context of its neighbors.”

On this point Berman, who has seen the new design, disagrees as well. “It sort of looks like it was dropped on top of historic Chelsea Market from space,” he says. “It could not look less natural, less at ease.” He adds that it would be an eyesore for New Yorkers and visitors using area attractions like the High Line.

The expansion’s completion, as GlobeSt.com has reported, hinges on zoning changes that must be approved by the City’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, changes that Berman says would simply amount to a “huge gift” to the developer.