Save The Garment Center

<h1>Honorable Mayor Bill de Blasio</h1><p>In&nbsp;behalf of all present and future designers and manufactures to express concern about the future of the Garment Center.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>New York is the fashion capital of the world, and the hundreds of small businesses in the Garment Center are the industry&rsquo;s backbone.&nbsp; Garment Center businesses to need&nbsp; The Center&rsquo;s sample rooms, cut and sew contractors, pattern making services and fabric and trim suppliers are crucial to our company&rsquo;s ability to develop new products, to carry out quick-to-market, reorder and high end production.&nbsp;</p><p>There are many fashion companies that rely on a functioning Garment Center, yet we are beginning to see alarming numbers of support businesses lose their leases.&nbsp; We therefore respectfully ask that the revised zoning will provide enough space for a sufficient production and supplier core, there are still more than 1 million sq. ft. in production and logistical support in use in the Garment Center Losing much more of the space that these support businesses currently occupy, which is a small fraction of the Center&rsquo;s overall space, would harm the fashion industry in ways that no one can foresee.</p><p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p>