Assemblage

Assemblage is the practice of acquiring adjacent lots to combine their development capacity — pooling floor area through zoning-lot mechanics, escaping small-lot constraints like the sliver rules, and creating an envelope none of the pieces supports alone. Because combined ground is often worth more than the sum of its parcels, assemblers pay premiums, and the final pieces of a footprint carry the most leverage.

In records, assemblage reads as a pattern: adjacent lots trading to entities with common fingerprints over months, zoning-lot declarations appearing across the footprint, filings following. Each element is an ordinary public fact; recognizing their convergence — commonly-held adjacency with combined arithmetic — is the analysis.