For the first time, the complicated reality of doing a development project has been brought to a wider audience.
So how does a development studio remain fresh, engaged and creative on such a lengthy and precarious production line?
"But this makes it impossible to do a development in situations like ours," he said, "where you have decades of redlining and the only way to get a development done is to have help".
"I don't think there's any place in the United States where you could do a development of this magnitude with as few environmental issues as we're facing," said Sandy Hornick, deputy executive director at the city's Planning Department.
Doing a development deal, especially outside of the rarefied world of Manhattan high-rise development, might not seem especially complex: you find a property, develop an idea that can get past the New York City Department of Buildings, draw up a marketing plan, do a feasibility study and a financial analysis.
"There's a lot of places easier to do a development in than New York State," said Emily H. Fisher, a member of the board of the American Museum of Natural History who has owned a second home in the Catskills for decades and who is a principal of Mr. Gitter's development group.
Mayawati has done a lot for development".
"He is a very respected person, he has done a lot for the development of world soccer," Putin said.
I had done a lot of personal development, I had coaches and had been in group coaching.
"We have done a good job with the development of the car.
