Several city-owned sites outside Manhattan are under consideration.
Eighteen other city-owned sites are considered developable if and when the city decides to dispose of them.
The $2 billion facility will include 2 million square feet of space on an 11 acre city-owned site, which is currently used for a hospital.
They were hampered, they said, by the lack of city-owned sites that met their development criteria.
But even with city-owned sites in appropriate neighborhoods, the Housing Authority often found the going rough.
The city sought applicants for a new market to be built on the city-owned site of the old police station.
The plan is one of several by various sponsors for the city-owned site, with a selection expected sometime this year.
The 65th Street yard is not far from his yard, which is also on a city-owned site.
The not-for-profit groups shouldn't be pleading with the city to turn over city-owned sites that are just continuing to deteriorate.
They will move to a city-owned site near their current location in the World Trade Center.