As part of the renovation, the organization will consolidate administrative staff from other sites in the city, adding 20 percent more employees to the office, even as the space shrinks by 30 percent.
He added: "After looking at recent successful renovations of nearby parks, including Abingdon Square and Father Demo Square by the parks department, and historic precedents in the park itself from before the 1970 renovation, the organization's board decided to support the plan in the hopes of achieving a long-overdue renovation of the only unrefurbished park left in Greenwich Village".
Meanwhile, as plans are drawn for new office towers and building renovations, artist organizations are negotiating with landlords and developers to try to keep studios (where artists sometimes live as well) available and affordable.
He is responsible for overseeing the renovation of the organization's Manhattan headquarters.
The board, they said, also faulted Mr. Gibson for not fully informing it about substantial cost overruns in this year's renovation of the organization's offices at 33 West 60th Street.
This organization oversaw renovations to the estate and now operates it as a museum.
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Jean-Jacques Aillagon, president of the Château de Versailles, said: "All of the money is invested in renovation, restoration, acquisitions and the organization of exhibitions.
But Ulf Sieberg, an expert on energy efficiency and building renovation with the German environmental organization NABU, said only about 3 percent of all buildings in Berlin were subject to those laws.
The idea was that it was perfectly acceptable for a local organization supporting, say, renovation of a downtown to participate in a campaign for a referendum to impose a tax for that purpose.
