Developers Pointsfive reportedly withdrew their application for the zoning needed to build the mixed-use, ShoP Architects-designed One45 hours before it was set to be voted on by the New York City Council Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises. The proposal included a pair of 363-foot-tall towers on the corner of West 145th Street and Lenox Avenue, with residential, office, and retail space, along with a rooftop events space.

Since its inception, the project has faced pushback from Harlem’s local community board and especially from recently seated local Councilmember Kristin Richardson Jordan. The Harlem native has claimed that the levels of affordability proposed by One45 aren’t in line with the needs of the community, fearing that it would instead indirectly displace Harlem’s Black residents and drive up gentrification. In a round of last-minute moves to gain support for the proposal, the developer bumped the percentage of subsidized units from 25 percent to 50 percent. Richardson Jordan still wasn’t satisfied, however, claiming that all of the apartments be rent regulated, with at least 57 percent of them being set aside for the lowest income New Yorkers.