Marine Terminal Plan for skyscrapers in Red Hook -Passen

By Gabriele Holtermann, Brooklyn Paper

After five earlier delays, the 28-person Brooklyn Marine Terminal (BMT) Task Force, seated by the American representative than Goldman and co-chairman of senator Andrew Gouden and councilor Alexa Avilés, Alexa Avilés, on September 22, Aces van Om22 voted in Om2.

Ambitious $ 3.5 billion vision planLed by the New York City Economic Development Corp., calls for a modern all-electric port of 60 hectares, 6,000 houses, 28 hectares of new open space, more than 275,000 square feet of industrial space, resilient measures and dedicated areas for staff, community and culture. The plan also projects more than $ 18 billion in economic impact, which creates 37,000 building jobs and 2,000 permanent jobs in maritime, industrial, commercial and residential sectors.

Protesters outside 100 Columbia Street, where the mood took place behind closed doors, not only expressed frustration with the process – which they say it is marred by a lack of transparency and back room deals – but also with Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso and councilor Shahana Hanif. The two had been holdouts for months, but stood to yes after the EDC had revised the plan last week.

In a statement, Reynoso, who was raised by demonstrators who sing ‘shame’ when he arrived to cast his vote, that he supported the Brooklyn Marine Terminal Plan because it was a ‘one -off opportunity to maximize the economic potential of our waterfront’. He noted that the plan is still being confronted with more reviews and supervision.

“To be clear, the fight for the port of the future is not nearly over. There are many decisions we have to make, reports that we have to investigate, and details that we must endure,” said Reynoso. “A Port-first plan can solve for many of the worries that were created during this process. It can activate our blue highways from the street and our air, while well-paid jobs are created with which the working class New Yorkers can stay in our beloved city.”

Hanif said that they were able to realize, due to continuous cooperation with Reynoso, “new, critical obligations that improve the plan considerably.”

These improvements include more than 3,650 units of affordable homes -2,400 on location and 1,250 off -site -as well as $ 3 million for local schools, $ 7 million for parks, an investigation to restore the B71 bus route, $ 50 million for an electric shuttle service that connects the site in the truck and commercial vehicle of the commercial and commercial Trucks and the commercial vehicle route of the trickies and the commercial vehicle route of the trick. Voorhees Playground Op- and Off-Hellings.

Gate developers, operators and maritime users also get the chance to share their ideas for the site by means of a request for interest or RFEI.

Hanif, who was critical of the EDC during the entire process, said that although she supported the plan, she would continue to insist on ‘excellent requirements’.

“Transport, resilience and protection of small companies still need deeper study and action,” Hanif said in a statement. “Promoting the plan ensures that these questions will be treated by binding agreements and a transparent public process.”

Carolina Salguero, founder and executive director of the maritime non -profit Portside New York and a BMT -tenant, said she was surprised by Reynosos JA -mood, especially because he had been pronounced about the need to preserve and improve maritime industrial spaces.

‘[Reynoso’s] The decision to turn around now makes no sense on the surface, “said Salguero, who questioned the timing so close to the mayor elections. Mayor Eric Adams, who has supported the development, is generally expected to lose.

“When a new mayor comes in, they name a new EDC president,” said Salguero. “The mayor clearly looks like it will be Zohran Mamdani. He has a completely different value system about an affordable city, a city where the economy works for everyone, the idea that luxury housing would be placed on public country to support infrastructure. That is not what he is going; [Reynoso and Hanif] Cave now? “

Salguero also criticized the RFEI process.

“The EDC has burned out the maritime community in the port by using RFPs or RFEIS to, as they express it, test the market,” she said. “You ask companies to send in RFEI suggestions for what you have to do here, and they may not even get the contract from the start.”

The resident of Brooklyn, James Morgan, told Brooklyn Paper that he believed that Hanif, Reynoso, Goldman and Goldens had betrayed their voters by voting for the plan. He said he fears that their voice could disillusion young voters that have been stimulated by the mayor candidate Mamdani’s Grassroots campaign.

“They have given such a blemish on the new movement in politics that we need in this city and this country,” said Morgan. “They have affected Mamdani’s mayor run. This will have a drop [effect] And blow them all back, and they must be ashamed of what they have done their voters and what they have done to their own reputation and what they have done with the faith of people in politics. “

Mayor Adams, Gouverneur Kathy Hochul, NYCEDC President and CEO Andrew Kimball, Goldman and Goudenes celebrated the mood as a historic day and a step to the future.

“By approving this $ 3.5 billion vision plan, we will change a modern maritime port of a crumbling naval terminal and at the same time create thousands of affordable houses and tens of thousands of well-paid jobs. We will be the open space that our city needs deliver and New York will keep at the front of the green economy,” said Adams.

But the eight members of the Task Force who voted against the measure – including members of the Marcela Mitaynes meeting and Jo Anne Simon and council member Alexa Avilés – said that many of their concerns about the EDC’s plan were ignored.

In a joint statement, the members said that the EDC has pushed a “defective” proposal without transparency, adequate studies or real input from the community, and did not succeed in tackling important issues such as infrastructure, transport, flood risk and the promise of a “port of the future” that offers productions and robuuste.

“We participated in good faith in the BMT Task Force, hoping that our involvement would be a progressive and fair vision for our waterfront. Our goal had been from the start to achieve a ‘yes’ and we stayed in for that result. Unfortunately, to date, many of our worries read the explanation.

Mitaynes, who represents Red Hook, Sunset Park and Northern Bay Ridge, Brooklyn Paper said that members of Task Force had no time to revise the revised plan or share the changes with the community.

“I made a final attempt to remember that this was a democratic process. I really want to hear what other people think about the changes. And you know, appreciate the opinions of people who are experts in the Chamber. I know my limitations, and that was not allowed,” said Mitaynes, who underlined the importance of transparency and community involvement. “The process was opaque and rushed, and I really wish we had more opportunity to bring people in.”

The sentiment of Mitaynes was reflected by Columbia Street Waterfront founder John Leyva, who called the mood ‘horrible’. He said that the changes should have been presented to the community before the vote and had spoken his disappointment in Reynoso and Hanif.

“They should have had at least one last meeting and the audience should tell what this big deal is [them] change [their] Mind you, “said Leyva.” They had the power, both, to say, “Well, okay, let’s say they are changing their voice, but we only do it after you have met the audience and let the audience know.” And for them not to do that, I am lost for words. ‘

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