It is also proposed that a square or plaza is created at the entrance to the pier, which could be shared with the neighbouring leisure centre.
"We did a two-year traffic study to analyze exactly how every single vehicle moves through Manhattan, " she says about her decision to create the Times Square pedestrian plaza.
Even more ambitious is the enormous 1.2 million square foot La Gran Plaza in Fort Worth, Texas, which features such family-friendly fare as mariachis, Mayan dance, horse shows and even a Sunday Mass presided over by a local bishop.
At Olympic Plaza, a public square in downtown Calgary, a breakfast is hosted every morning by Stampede organizers and volunteers.
The next year, New Wave Style expanded to a 40, 000-square-foot space in Rana Plaza, located in Savar, a former agricultural area on Dhaka's outskirts that was fast becoming a garment-industry boomtown.
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The main square of Raekoja Plats, a cobbled plaza dominated by a Gothic town hall, lies at the epicentre of a web of alleys and lanes leading up to the 13th-century Toompea Castle and the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral.
Among his best known is the 45-foot-high clothespin sculpture (1976) that stands in the plaza of Philadelphia's Centre Square complex.
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City hall officials agreed to the proposals and a square in the area is to be renamed Plaza de Joe Strummer.
The mosque was on a busy square, and a pedestrian overpass emptied into the plaza, mixing passersby with the voting crowd.
Freeman Plaza West is a 15, 000-square-foot space ringed by Hudson Street, Broome Street and ramps to the Holland Tunnel.
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Perkins originally subleased about 10, 000 square feet from Haynes and Boone LLP at 30 Rockefeller Plaza one year ago.
Back in Francis' home city, the Argentinian capital, Buenos Aires, the faithful packed the main square to watch the event on large screens set up throughout the Plaza de Mayo.
In addition to breakfast, at the Plaza there is live music, a gun show, impromptu square dancing, a flapjack-flipping contest and a hat-stomping competition, among other activities.
For example, the recession has barely taken hold at La Gran Plaza, the recently opened 1.1-million-square-foot retail center in Fort Worth, Texas, where Legaspi serves as part owner and operating partner.
An informal census by the Times Square Alliance, a business group, counted 52 costumed characters clustered in the plaza on Saturday evening.
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