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Brooklyn Navy Yard and Harbor Climate Initiative
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Andrew Kimball highlights the Brooklyn Navy Yard's transformation and introduces the Harbor Climate Initiative, a collaborative effort to make New York City a global capital of climate innovation.
- Brooklyn Navy Yard: International model for successful transformation of industrial spaces
- Ambitious master plan to nearly double the Navy Yard's size in the next ten years
- Harbor Climate Initiative: Collaboration between Governors Island, Brooklyn Army Terminal, and Brooklyn Navy Yard
- Initiative aims to tackle climate change through research, education, and innovation
- Expected to create 5,000 permanent jobs, educate 2,100 students, and generate $55 billion in economic impact
Andrew Kimball
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And of course, the Brooklyn Navy Yard has become an international model for successful transformation of outdated industrial spaces into a center of modern manufacturing and a home to start ups.
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The Navy Yard is in the midst of an ambitious master plan that will nearly double its size in the next ten years.
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These three sites are collaborating to create the Harbor Climate Initiative, a three mission aligned public entities with sites along New York Harbor connected by NYC Ferry, the Trust for Governors Island, EDC's Brooklyn Army Terminal, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard to make New York City the global capital of climate innovation.
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These three campuses totaling 600 acres and 10,000,000 square feet of building space were first built as military bases to defend our country at home and abroad and are now being reimagined to tackle perhaps our most existential challenge of today and the future, climate change.
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The collaborative will facilitate research, education, workforce training, and space for companies to grow as well as an opportunity for the piloting of new technologies.
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These sites will support the creation of 5,000 permanent jobs, educate and trade 2,100 students, and generate $55,000,000,000 of economic impact for our city.