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Hunts Point produce market redevelopment plans and land use concerns
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Council Member Salamanca raises concerns about the Hunts Point produce market redevelopment, particularly regarding land use and EDC's plans. Andrew Kimball explains the current state of the project and addresses the concerns.
- The produce market is undergoing remodeling or rebuilding of its facility
- There are concerns about EDC potentially taking land for other businesses
- EDC is working on an efficient plan that incorporates rail usage and eliminates fossil fuel generators
- The project involves significant funding from various sources, including a federal grant and a potential federal RIF loan
- EDC plans to use some reclaimed space for additional cold storage facilities
Rafael Salamanca
0:53:23
Alright.
0:53:23
I'm looking forward to that.
0:53:25
The Huntsman produce market, we are they're going through a phase now where they are going to in terms of remodeling or building a new facility for from their antiquated facility.
0:53:38
There are concerns about the amount of acres that they have and the possibility that EDC may wanna take certain acres of land and utilize it for another business to move in, and there's pushback on that.
0:53:53
Can you speak a little bit about that?
Andrew Kimball
0:53:56
Yeah.
0:53:56
So we've been working with them for years as you know, and thanks to support, you know, from you, from the mayor, there's a hundred and $30,000,000 in the project that was matched by the governor and then there's a hundred and $10,000,000 federal grant.
0:54:13
As you know, EDC is for the first time also pursuing a loan, a federal RIF loan, to close the gap, because the produce market co op preferred to not work with a third party private developer.
0:54:27
We are making very good headway at building a much more efficient plan for the site that both embraces rail, so getting more trucks off the off the road, eliminating a thousand trucks from fossil fuel generators.
0:54:42
Recently, the coop has brought to my attention their interest in having some additional parking space, and so we're gonna have those conversations and I'm I'm happy to consider that.
0:54:53
But EDC is plowing a lot of time and resources into this project, and so part of the scenario and part of our agreement with the co op had always been that there would be some amount of space that would come back to EDC that we could put back out on the market for additional cold storage space.
0:55:11
Just on cold storage and, you know, your district is such an exception citywide because you have a lot of cold storage, but less than 5% of all the cold storage in the entire region is in the city Of New York.
0:55:25
It's in New Jersey, it's in Westchester, it's Long Island.
0:55:28
So what does that mean?
0:55:28
Trucks coming from everywhere.
0:55:30
Hunt's Point is obviously an exception to that.
0:55:32
We would like to build more cold storage on that take back space as part of the produce deal.