On Thursday, Mr. Weiner met with the Real Estate Board of New York's executive board.
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The Real Estate Board floated a similar proposal, but the mayor's administration rejected it as too costly.
He became chairman of the powerful Real Estate Board of New York, an industry group, on Jan. 1.
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"I just don't see a realistic plan on the table, " said Steve Spinola, president of the Real Estate Board of New York.
The mayor didn't respond to questions about the letters Thursday morning as he arrived for and left a speech to the Real Estate Board of New York.
"This is a vehicle to be able to build taller buildings, bigger building and to be competitive with the rest of the world, " said Steven Spinola, president of the Real Estate Board of New York.
Another of the speaker's housing proposals, aimed at keeping more housing permanently affordable, mirrored an initiative championed two years ago by the Real Estate Board of New York and rejected by Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration as too expensive.
The vacancy rate is around 1%, according to Citi Habitats, and new residential construction activity for the decade starting in 2010 is projected to be the slowest seen since the 1960s, according to the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY).
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Maybe, these honchos allocate 10 percent of their boodle to art, another 10 percent to gold, 30 percent to emerging markets and the remaining 50 percent to the Big Board, venture capital, real estate and high yield bond plays.
The attorney general's office, which oversees charities in the state, wanted the former board members to carry out a formal appraisal and hire real-estate brokers to sell the property to the highest bidder.
At the same time, limited space for real-estate development has driven up property prices across the board.
His brother had invested in real estate and was keen to diversify, so they began researching popular board and card games.
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Among these Louisiana-based shareholders is David Vey, a wealthy real estate developer who provided rescue financing to Sedona in 2003, joined its board and now owns about 44% of its outstanding shares.
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