speed up development of the former project. More two-bedroom apartments were added to the residential tower, and the brick facade of the original design was changed to a glass and aluminum facade. The developers allocated most of the site's development rights to the residential tower, now Central Park Place. The office component at 4 Columbus Circle, immediately to the north of Central Park Place, was completed in 1989 with of space, becoming one of Manhattan's smallest office buildings. Work on Central Park Place had started by December 1985, but the project soon encountered controversy. During the next one and a half years, the city government cited builder HRH Construction for sixteen building-code violations, and issued six stop-work orders due to unsafe construction conditions. In June 1987, a piece of lumber was dislodged from one of the higher floors during a wind storm. The lumber hit a pedestrian on Eighth Avenue, who later died. In a December 1987 protest against government policies on homelessness, New York Civil Liberties Union director Norman Siegel said of Central Park Place, "When we build those buildings, we pay a high price because large developments result in the displacement of poor people." Furthermore, recording studio MediaSound filed a lawsuit against Zeckendorf in January 1988, claiming that several clients had been driven away by the construction of Central Park Place. Use Sales at the building started in September 1987. More than 200 units were sold, with one-fifth of these units going to foreign buyers. At the time of the building's completion in 1988, the surrounding neighborhood was still considered desolate. The segment of Eighth Avenue south of 57th Street was considered shabby, but this was changing quickly. Units at Central Park Place attracted several high-value sales; in one week in May 1989, Zeckendorf earned $8 million from selling three apartments, all of which were purchased for over a million dollars. By mid-1990, ninety-nine percent of the 300 units had been sold. One such unit, on the 26th story, was raided in 1993 when the New York City Police Department conducted its largest-ever heroin seizure there, confiscating $240 million worth of heroin. The narcotics, divided into 562 packets containing one-third of a kilogram (about 12 ounces) of heroin each, were being stored in five black suitcases in the apartment. Residents of Central Park Place have included Turner Broadcasting System executive Philip I. Kent, as well as celebrities such