MePa is Five Star

NYTimes LOVES the Meatpacking:

What more can you ask for in a neighborhood that offers cow carcasses, good food, excellent nightlife, and Belgian block streets?

According to the New York Times, the Meatpacking is the place to be. Although it is commercially zoned (you can't live there), it is still prime real estate. You just have to live on the outskirts of it, which is kind of a bummer that you can't wake up to the smell of meat.

That doesn't seem to be stopping anyone, since new, legal lofts are popping up by the Gansevoort Hotel (the outskirts) and the Standard Hotel is booming with business. Good times for the MePa.

Everyone wants to come here, even the Whitney Museum:

The Meatpacking District has definitely become a tourist destination. Everyone, therefore, wants a piece of the MePa. Construction is under way for the Whitney Museum underneath the Highline. They just have to raise $680 million dollars to build it. No big deal.