It seems that in our major cities everyone from developers to average neighbors would object to a new prison opening next door to their home. We all know that having a prison next door drives down property values. So what do Jean Nouvel and Frank Gehry know that we don’t? It turns out that their widely celebrated recent projects in Manhattan’s trendy Chelsea neighborhood are next door (in Nouvel’s case, literally) to the Bayview Correctional Facility for Women, a New York State prison for convicted felons.
