Elise Wagner is a partner in the Land Use Department at Kramer Levin, where she concentrates her practice in land use, zoning, environmental and historic preservation law. She has substantial experience counseling for-profit and non-profit property owners on the planning and development of new buildings and the reuse of existing buildings. She has coordinated the public approval processes for major public-private development projects involving cooperation between private developers and agencies of New York City and State. She has negotiated numerous multi-party transactions for the transfer of development rights, and has performed due diligence on the purchase and financing of major properties.
Representative Transactions
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Major Medical Center—Land use approvals in connection with a major new clinical building, a biomedical research building and an expansion of its existing emergency department.
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Jewish Home Lifecare—Land use advice regarding the relocation of its nursing home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
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Major University—Land use approvals for new and converted academic buildings, and advice in connection with changes to the New York City Building Code.
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Madison Square Garden—Land use advice regarding its current renovation and the special zoning approvals affecting the arena.
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The Walt Disney Company—Approval by the Landmarks Preservation Commission of a major renovation of the First Battery Armory on West 68th Street.
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Port Authority of New York and New Jersey—Coordinated Kramer Levin’s participation in a legal team representing the Port Authority in connection with the New York City and State approvals of its recently cancelled Access to the Region’s Core project, which would have built a new rail tunnel under the Hudson River leading to a new station in Manhattan.