Officials have said that the Hudson Yards plan does not depend on the stadium, but they also argue that the logic of the redevelopment design makes much less sense without it.
Ms Ní Chuilín said she had listened to the evidence presented, and in light of the safety concerns raised over the proposed redevelopment design, had asked for a full review of the project, "including independent specialist advice as appropriate, which will draw on experts in the field of public safety".
The first phase of the redevelopment, designed by Raphael Vinoly, is expected to be completed by 2016.
New York Yimby has the scoop on the redevelopment designs from HTO Architect, which feature two towers that will be topped off by "glass crowns" that encase penthouse suites.
The £40 million redevelopment, designed by Foster and Partners, provides new gallery spaces dedicated to the history of the First World War, a new central hall, easier navigation and improved visitor facilities, access and circulation.
But city and team officials said that approval of the redevelopment plan would allow design work and the estimated two years of construction to begin in time for the team to play its 2007-08 season.
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Christopher Tepper and Paul Kelterborn, the urban planners behind the AIDS Memorial Park coalition, expressed optimism that the design would find favor with the City Council, which is to vote in March on the redevelopment plan for the entire St . Vincents campus.
The Pei Plan was an urban redevelopment initiative designed for downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in the 1960s and 1970s.
After all, only five miles away, Long Branch, a city of 32,000, has begun attacking its blight with a $265 million oceanfront redevelopment project designed by the architects of the South Street Seaport in lower Manhattan.
THREE years and $30 million into the redevelopment project designed to bring back Asbury Park as a high-energy, high-end seaside resort, there is still a work-in-progress feel about the place.
