On Oct 8, we had the pleasure of running a focus group with a few of the tenants from 240 Central Park South. Since our projects were going in the building, this was a great opportunity to learn about the people who live there, who they are, what’re like, what life is like in the building.

Here are some rough notes I took during the session:

they are really happy there
group 1 tenants were in the building <15 years strong sense of community smaller building is like a village 'my floor is like a family' one elevator caused community more kids and the pets are cause community shared areas, the outdoor suntanners enjoyed interactions with the doorman, human interactions be aware of not removing the human element in projects Gerry picked the tenants that would be attending Relationship with the park, biking, running, walking the dog, personal time Relationship with the neighborhood, history Old Columbus Circle: liked the old mom and pop stores Keeping a balance between the madness of the area and loving it. Address the coming noise, huge construction coming, 2 buildings, next door and across the street they felt that they were in the center of the world 'capsule' neighborhoods by floor bridging the gap between the tenants and the staff and being partners in energy efficiently open to artwork