Donald Trump launched his career with this hotel. Now as president, he could decide its future.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Nearly half a century later, Trump may again have an opportunity to play a role in the site's destiny when he returns to the White House.
45% : "Donald Trump comes in, his team cuts through the red tape, navigates through and unleashes a $6 billion project that's going to improve transit, create the biggest building in the Western hemisphere," Rechler said of 175 Park Avenue's potential appeal to the president-elect.
36% : Donald Trump was a young developer eager to make a name for himself in the Manhattan real estate industry when he struck a career-making deal to redevelop the Commodore Hotel next to Grand Central Terminal into a 1,300-room Grand Hyatt clad in dark glass.
23% : "Rechler, however, was for years closely aligned politically with former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo -- a Democrat and nemesis of Trump's during his first term in the White House.
21% : "I'm not speaking for Trump, but I would be in utter shock if the transportation department, which must oversee the railroads, if they signed off on that deal," the person said.

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