The current zoning law covering manufacturing districts was written in 1974, to protect manufacturers from competition.
The Mayor's proposal covers retail development in certain manufacturing districts.
The area was still a manufacturing district whose streets emptied out at night, and there were no galleries.
"Our goal is to do nothing that displaces viable manufacturing districts, but you can't solve every problem," he said.
When Kraus found a home on the lower edge of the garment center in 1979, the neighborhood was still a manufacturing district.
Since much of the area was an abandoned manufacturing district, no one has been displaced by the development to create resentment over gentrification.
In the early and middle 20th century the North Shore was an important manufacturing district.
Before long, they came to the city's manufacturing district, and a small factory building.
Illuminated or flashing signs could not exceed 500 square feet in the manufacturing districts.
Fell, he'd been told, specialized in burglary and industrial theft, down through the manufacturing district of Manhattan.