Arlen intends to submit separate rezoning applications for each of its other buildings, said Alvin Benjamin, the company's president.
Even if the two groups do submit separate proposals, they are likely to be quite similar with only a few points of divergence, another official said.
Liberty House, the metals group run by Sanjeev Gupta, and Excalibur Steel, led by Tata Steel's UK management, are said to have submitted separate bids after discussing the idea of working together.
In addition to the memo, the lawyers have submitted separate papers for their clients tailored to each man's personal circumstances, offering arguments of why the death penalty is not appropriate.
Five developers submitted separate billion-dollar offers this week for the right to transform the West Side railyards — what the Bloomberg administration once called "a hole in the ground" — into a small city of residential and commercial skyscrapers with 12 acres of parks and open space.
Among Mr. Perrone's suggestions in the memo, these people said, were to keep the contracts 60 days apart, apparently to avoid suspicion that the deals were reached merely to help each party meet its quarterly financial objectives, and to require each party to submit separate cash payments, apparently to create the look of a valid deal.
Instead, three of the four legislative conferences said they would submit separate proposals to the federal magistrate for her consideration; the fourth conference, the Senate Democrats, declined to make any proposal, and their spokesman, Mike Murphy, said, "Politicians should not be drawing the lines".
"This rule change would permit agents to go to one federal judge, rather than submit separate warrant applications to each of the 94 federal districts.
Under the plan, Chinese nationals visiting the EU will not need to submit separate UK visa applications if they book with selected travel agents.
