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Brooklyn waterfront developments and initiatives
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Andrew Kimball details various development projects and initiatives along the Brooklyn waterfront, showcasing EDC's efforts to revitalize and modernize these areas.
- Brooklyn Army Terminal (BAT): Home to over 100 businesses and 4,000 employees
- Climate Innovation Hub at BAT: Part of the Green Economy Action Plan
- MADE campus at Bush Terminal: Center for artisans, advanced manufacturing, and media production
- South Brooklyn Marine Terminal (SBMT): Transformation into the nation's largest offshore wind port
- SBMT expected to deliver 810 megawatts of renewable electricity, powering 500,000 homes
- Brooklyn Marine Terminal: New plan for 22-acre site to spur economic development and job growth
- Governors Island: Home to the New York Climate Exchange, a 400,000 square foot campus for climate research and education
Andrew Kimball
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BAT is home to over 100 businesses and approximately 4,000 employees.
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A key initiative of the administration's historic green economy action plan is the climate innovation hub at BAT.
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The hub will bring business development incubation and acceleration to a 4,000,000 square foot campus and continue to grow Sunset Park as a center for clean tech innovation, manufacturing, local entrepreneurship and workforce opportunities.
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The MADE campus at Bush Terminal is a center for artisans, advanced manufacturing and media production.
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The campus will synergize modern facilities, amenities and well designed public space.
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In December, we were thrilled to open the first two hundred and twenty thousand square foot industrial building as part of the MADE redevelopment.
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Last June, in partnership with the city, state and Equinor, we announced the start construction to transform the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal into the nation's largest offshore wind port.
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SBMT is poised to deliver 810 megawatts of renewable electricity to the city providing enough energy to power 500,000 homes, advance the green transition to renewable energy, bolstering the city's national leadership in the offshore wind industry, and serve as an operations and maintenance hub for Empire Wind One.
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Equity and economic mobility are at the center of our offshore wind work, ensuring that diverse businesses and diverse workforce are prepared to best participate in this opportunity.
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Last May, after fifty years of dysfunctional government and disinvestment as a result of the ineffective city, state and port authority tri party agreement, EDC has sewn full control of the Brooklyn Marine Terminal.
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Working with local elected officials and stakeholders, we're working on a transformational plan for this 22 acre site that will spur economic development and job growth in Brooklyn and beyond, develop a modernized twenty first century maritime port to bolster the Blue Highway and a micro distribution network, removing trucks from New York roadways and neighborhoods, and create a mixed use community that provides improved access to open space and the waterfront while creating thousands of units of housing that help address the city's greatest need.
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Governors Island is home to the New York Climate Exchange, a 400,000 square foot campus dedicated to research, education, and public programs addressing the global climate crisis.
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Climate exchange is being built by the city in partnership with the Trust for Governors Island and its climate exchange consortium which is led by SUNY Stony Brook.
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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.