Q&A
Retail development plans for the campus
1:16:51
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Council Member Powers inquires about the retail development plans for the campus, and Julieanne Herskowitz provides details on the envisioned retail spaces.
- Food and beverage establishments are a priority, considering the number of people in the area and future students and workers.
- Ground floor spaces in the two life sciences buildings on First Avenue and 26th Street will be used to encourage more retail.
- Health and Hospitals will have healthy concessions, including a healthy cafe and a pharmacy within their ground floor space near 26th Street.
- The goal is to make the entire campus more active, permeable, and accessible than it is currently.
Julieanne Herskowitz
1:16:51
That's exactly right.
1:16:52
Food and beverage, I think, is definitely a priority considering the number of people that are already in the area looking for a good place to eat, but then also all the students and and workers who will be operating of the Spark Hips Bay campus.
1:17:06
In particular, with the two life sciences building, so on First Avenue and then also on 26th Street, we have a real opportunity to influence and encourage more retail within the ground floor of those spaces.
1:17:17
As I also noted before too, as part of health and hospitals leasehold, they will also have healthy concessions, so a healthy cafe, and then a pharmacy within their ground floor space, closer to 26th Street.
1:17:30
So really excited to really make the entire campus more active and and more permeable as we know and accessible than it is today.