It really helped getting a new subway line to an inconvenient to reach part of Manhattan.
"If everything goes according to plan, the twenty-billion-dollar residential and commercial complex at Hudson Yards, stretching from West 30th to West 34th streets and from 10th to 12th Avenues, will be the largest private real estate development in United States history. "
The entire lower West side of Manhattan could use a new subway line. They originally planned to extend the 7 train southward several more stops, but they gave up on it.
I mean everything west of 8th Ave, and north of the 14th st, so I mean both west Chelsea and Hell's kitchen / Midtown West. "Lower west side" really isn't an unambiguous region in the first place, but I agree the natural interpretation is probably south of where I meant.
The developer of Hudson Yards has an entire office in Shanghai dedicated to selling these apartments to wealthy Chinese people. The pitch is that each apartment comes with a USA green card under the EB-5 program. Apparently they're selling like hotcakes.
Do they understand the IoT data collection / surveillance "amenities"? http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/07/hudson-yards-smart-neighb..., "… New York City's first truly smart neighborhood. Or, it will be when New York University's Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP), a partner for the development, finishes outfitting it with sensors … This "quantified community" is a real-life urban laboratory for connected living, and its future, deep-pocketed residents will be its well-kept lab rats.".
Sensor technology is improving rapidly and improved sensors will be easy to deploy once the buildings and rooms are designed for monitoring and data collection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAc5hkCEYFU