GlobeSt.com says Soho Activists to Appeal Trump Hotel Ruling

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In a release, Julius Schwarz of Bayrock Group LLC, which is developing the project with the Trump Organization and Sapir Organization, says, "We are grateful for the decision which was as expected, and we now look forward to preparing for Trump Soho’s grand opening which will be taking place in the fall of 2009."

Sean Sweeney, Soho Alliance president, tells GlobeSt.com that after his group heard about the decision last Friday, "I spoke to a lawyer that evening and now we’re going to the New York State Appellate division." He adds that the group’s attorney thinks it’ll have better luck with a three-judge panel rather than a single judge ruling alone, as was the case with Payne’s decision.

Sweeney says the group is fighting the project because it wants to preserve what it calls the integrity of the city’s zoning laws. "If Trump gets away with this, every other developer will be busting the zoning resolutions in that area," he says.

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