For example, conducting a study to relocate buildings will have a code "Relocation study".
Repurposing, reusing and even relocating buildings are among the various strategies for securing a sporting venue's long-term legacy, says Glenn Scott, a Sydney-based infrastructure expert at design practice Hassell.
A state report on rising sea levels, issued on the last day of Gov. David A. Paterson's administration in 2010, suggested that erecting structural barriers to restrain floodwaters could be part of a broader approach, along with relocating buildings and people farther from the coasts.
But any such undertaking would be expensive and enormously disruptive - relocating workers, building transport links, completely reorganising densely-used airspace - and would require a lot of long-term planning.
"A new city means relocating and building a new knowledge base," says Fuller.
A 1980s mall on Pier 17 would be replaced with two-story retail buildings, a four- and six-story hotel, walkways, a plaza, and the refurbished and relocated Tin Building.
The company bought more land nearby and redesigned and relocated the building to make it less visible to people on the bridge.
Rudin has relocated the building's electrical switchboards and other equipment to the top level of an on-site parking garage, so they sit 20 feet above sea level, or eight feet above Sandy's crest.
But Mr. Gerson said that the plaza on Pier 17 would have a luxury hotel on one side and a restaurant and event space on the other, in the relocated Tin Building that once served the Fulton Fish Market.
All occupants of the building were relocated, and the building was demolished.
