Many potential alternative housing options, like vacant apartments, were also flooded.
Fearing the worst, a local anti-Gypsy campaigner, Len Gridley, whose garden backs on to the Crays Hill site, has bought options on vacant plots in Sedgefield and Hull, near the homes of the prime minister and deputy prime minister.
The City Council opted for the existing civic site over two other options: a vacant parcel at Mission Avenue and Hill Street, and an unidentified location outside downtown.
That leaves Icann, with all its hopeless conflicts, as the only option in a vacant lot.
It hopes the proposed central register of landlords' vacant properties will increase housing options outside the borough.
After Sept. 11, World-Wide "considered all the options, including converting the vacant buildings back to offices," she said.
At the history museum, Mr. Johnson said he was considering options that included leaving vacant positions open, unpaid time off and possibly layoffs.
Developers were required to restructure purchase agreements and options on the largely vacant land on which the complex would be built, he said.
Black ended up with a mod that enabled just a small selection of maps – Crash, Backlot, District, Strike, and Vacant – and limited the perks to three preselected options.
Last year, Ms. Biberman said, the group negotiated for an option to purchase a piece of vacant land on West 46th Street but chose not to pursue it because of a more desirable possibility.
Helms sued Nemazee, then settled for $2 million but conceded to Nemazee an interest in an option to buy 8 acres of vacant land next to the building.
