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For Steven Cohen, 35,000 Square Feet Isn’t Enough

Steven A. Cohen’s 35,000-square-foot home in Greenwich, Conn., is already big enough to cause a billionaire to do a double-take. But now, it appears that Mr. Cohen, who runs the giant and secretive hedge-fund firm SAC Capital, wants to make it even more enormous.

The final agenda for Thursday night’s meeting of the Greenwich Planning and Zoning Commission, available on the commission’s Web site, states that Mr. Cohen (pictured above, at left, with art collector Larry Gagosian) and his wife, Alexandra, are applying for a special permit to add another 1,145 square feet, give or take a few square inches, to their house on Crown Lane.

Here’s the agenda item in full:

Stephen A. and Alexandra M. Cohen; application PSP #3722 and SP #3723 for a preliminary site plan and special permit to add 1,144.89 sq. ft. to an existing 35,084.89 sq. ft. residence on site, in excess of 150,000 cubic feet in volume on a 13.911 acre property located at 30 Crown Lane in the RA-4 zone.

The meeting was scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday; it was not clear on Friday how the presentation went or when the planning board might make a decision. The planning board told DealBook that no one was immediately available to answer questions.

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http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/for-stevie-cohen-35000-square-feet-isnt-enough/