Sunset Park Waterfront Vision Plan
On Monday, Mayor Bloomberg, joined by Brooklyn Chamber head Carl Hum and Borough President Marty Markowitz among other public officials, announced the city’s plan to invest $165 million (alongside another $105 million from the state) to revitalize commercial activity along the Sunset Park Waterfront. “On Brooklyn’s waterfront, the City has a unique opportunity to build…
On Monday, Mayor Bloomberg, joined by Brooklyn Chamber head Carl Hum and Borough President Marty Markowitz among other public officials, announced the city’s plan to invest $165 million (alongside another $105 million from the state) to revitalize commercial activity along the Sunset Park Waterfront. “On Brooklyn’s waterfront, the City has a unique opportunity to build upon existing assets – including a talented workforce and industrial and maritime infrastructure – to create permanent industrial jobs,” said Mayor Bloomberg. “Through a series of investments aimed at bringing aging infrastructure to good repair, professionalizing maritime and rail service, and increasing and diversifying job-intensive industrial uses along the waterfront, the Sunset Park Waterfront Vision Plan lays out a series of short and long-term steps to strengthen the area as a center for industrial growth. Specific initiatives include an $80 million overhaul of the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal, an $8.6 million modernization of the Bush Terminal and improvement of the freight rail service in the area. Another $37 million is slated to build the Bush Terminal Piers Park, which will add 22 acres of open space through the remediation of a former brownfield. Check out the full-length press release here.
BH76, part of the reason we don’t get the money we should is that even federal agencies, which are the poster children of waste and mismanagement, stand in awe of NYC’s ability to obfuscate, delay, waste, and re-route precious funds for needed infrastructure and improvement. Every repair and improvement project in this city takes four times longer than it should, and ends up costing 5 times more than the initial budget. How long did it take them to play around with the intersection of Atlantic and Flatbush? Been through Houston St in the last 4 years? It goes on and on.
Finally! using some of the waterfront for what it was intended for!
I hope when they finish prettying it up that actual industrial businesses will be able to afford it
rob — you seem to have grown up so much lately — taking much more sophisticated views of things!
And I cannot understand when there are stimulus programs for shovel-ready projects, that things like the underground Gowanus Expressway are not under way. We have so many sovel-ready things waiting for funding! And all of our bridges that need work… but the funds seem to be goig to rural areas (as usual).
This sounds like a worthy initiative, but I confess I was distracted, looking at Bloomberg, by the remembered description of a character by the playwright Hugh Leonard: “a face like a plate of mortal sin.”
why does he sound so whiney when he speaks?
This sounds like a great initiative. The only problem is that the waterfront is cut-off from the rest of the neighborhood by that horrible Gowanus overpass. It creates a sort of a psychological barrier, and I’m afraid that it will discourage people from going to these parks.
I read about some plans to replace it with a tunnel, Big-Dig-style, a while ago. However the city is nowhere close to even start the work, so who knows when it will happen.
why does it always look like bloomberg is holding in a fart?
*rob*
Is that a Junior’s cheesecake Marty is holding?
***Bid half off peak comps***