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Discussion on business concerns at Brooklyn Army Terminal
1:29:58
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Council Member Alexa Avilés and EDC President Andrew Kimball discuss concerns about a party boat business at Brooklyn Army Terminal, focusing on scheduling conflicts and the impact on the business's operations.
- Avilés expresses concern about EDC's use of the space for events impacting the business's limited operational weekends
- Kimball mentions safety concerns, which Avilés disputes
- Both agree to follow up on finding a solution that balances the needs of the business and EDC's event planning
Andrew Kimball
1:29:58
The small business you're referring to that runs party boats at the Brooklyn Army Terminal, there has been a concern there about safety.
1:30:06
This isn't just about revenues, but we are happy to work with you on that.
1:30:11
We know that they are a local business and there should be ways that we can both meet their needs and also be able to do the kinds of larger events there, some of which are purely revenue generating for EDC and some of which are community events.
1:30:27
We do tens of millions of dollars of community events every year.
Alexa Avilés
1:30:33
You just made my blood pressure go up real high.
1:30:36
I'll talk to you about that.
1:30:39
The public safety issue is not a real issue.
1:30:42
What is an issue is there's a business that you've grown and you should be very proud of that operates seasonally, and there's only 12 weekends they could operate.
1:30:54
ADC has effectively removed four to eight of those weekends.
1:30:59
How do you run a temporary business when you cannot run on the only weekends in the year because EDC has decided it's holding those weekends for concert or community events?
1:31:09
Right?
1:31:10
It's a challenge.
1:31:11
So I'll follow-up with you.
Andrew Kimball
1:31:12
Happy to talk more about
Alexa Avilés
1:31:13
It's not a safety issue.
1:31:15
It is a planning.
1:31:15
But I believe there's a path.
1:31:17
We can get there.
1:31:18
But hopefully, get there before the businesses shutters because we couldn't find something more we couldn't be more aggressive on it.
1:31:26
In terms of sorry.
1:31:29
I just lost my questions.
1:31:34
See what happens when your blood pressure goes up?
1:31:36
You can't read.