NEW YORK CITY-The community board that oversees development in Lower Manhattan is up in arms over the Edward J. Minskoff Equities Inc. office tower proposed for the northwest corner of Greenwich and Murray streets. The organization is holding a special meeting next week to garner support for its opposition to the Tribeca project, which it says is all wrong for the neighborhood.

Community Board One district manager Paul Goldstein says 270 Greenwich St. is too tall, too big, and not the best use of the long-vacant parcel bounded by Greenwich, Warren, Murray and West streets. “The size and scope of the building is way out of scale with what's appropriate for that community,” Goldstein tells GlobeSt.com. “It's in a predominantly residential neighborhood, directly across from a three-story elementary school (PS 234) and a block away from a park that we fear would be enshadowed.”

Minskoff's plan is a city-sanctioned project awarded to the developer through a New York City Economic Development Corp. RFP designation. (Whether the city will retain ownership of the land or sell it to Minskoff remains unclear.) The one million-sf Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP design is 597 feet tall with 38 above-ground floors and is scheduled for delivery in 2004.