Why are they bringing up a building that Vornado waffled over 30 years ago? He didn’t even get government assistance to build it — he demolished it and waited until he signed a big anchor client to make rebuilding worthwhile.

You also removed an important part of that quote that you replaced with ellipses — that the previous statement is not the case here.

Those lawyers (and you) are grappling at straws. Just rebuild the area. It is a piece of shit that annoying people are protecting in the name of a handful of decrepit buildings.