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He's Not Imaginary or Invisible Anymore: Matt Moss Speaks Out on Cooper Square

November 14, 2007 at 9:45 AM | 0 Comments

In a New York article, Matt Moss finally weighed in on the Cooper Square Hotel, a project he's developed with his frenemy Gregory Peck.

The hotel's backers are looking to buy three adjacent lots and the residents are to say the least, concerned. As you know, this is a pretty feisty bunch and they have resisted the hotel from the very beginning.

But what has them really concerned now is the planned second-floor terrace which ends just 30-inches from an apartment building next door. Thus they are presuring the community board to withhold a liquor license until the hotel can ease the residents' fears. And here is where Matt Moss speaks:

"The block association gave us a list of their concerns," says developer Matthew Moss of the Peck Moss Group. "We agreed right off the bat to half of them or so, but some of the things they wereasking for were a little difficult for us to agree to" and those are items that are still being discussed.

Still Moss agreed to soundproof the windows and air conditioners in nearby apartments so the residents won't have to deal with hotel party noise. The only glitch is that the landlord in the East 5th Street apartment building won't let installations proceed.

And the saga continues. We bet Gregory Peck is just relieved his name wasn't mentioned this time around.

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