Since its inception, the Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association has advanced Rockefeller’s vision of Lower Manhattan as a global model for a modern central business district.  The organization has been an early and effective champion of these projects and initiatives which have sharpened the Downtown skyline and population.

• District-defining commercial, residential and institutional developments including:

             - The World Trade Center
             - Battery Park City
             - South Street Seaport
             - Southbridge Housing Complex
             - Murray Bergtraum High School
             - One New York Plaza
             - New Amsterdam Public Library
             - New York Downtown Hospital

• Smart and sustainable infrastructure such as:

              - The adaptation of “green” building technology for new projects and retrofits
              - The East River Waterfront Esplanade and Piers Project
              - The redevelopment of Battery Park

• Post 9/11 economic revitalization:

             - The 2005 Lower Manhattan “Marshall Plan”
             - World Trade Center rebuilding
             - The creation of the WTC/Fulton Transit Hub
             – Fiterman Hall reconstruction
             – 130 Liberty deconstruction