Douglas durst PRODUCTIONS Give TIMES SQUARE A NEW BEGINNING;Developer completes office tower despite opposition from city, state; project spurs theater district boom.

Crain's New York Business, May, 2000 by croghan, lore

the only thing more surprising than douglas durst's decision in 1995 to build a skyscraper in Times Square was the fact that he actually managed to get the job done. His family had waged a 15-year legal battle against development of the site, leaving him with countless enemies trying to stop his project.

Also, peculiar circumstances kept cropping up to delay his deal for state-owned land at Broadway and 42nd Street. It took the third-generation developer half a decade to buy the site for 4 Times Square and construct the 1.6 million-square-foot office tower, whose big-name ...