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Addressing environmental concerns at Hunts Point Markets
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Council Member Salamanca raises concerns about the environmental impact of the Hunts Point Markets, particularly regarding air quality. EDC Vice President Michelle Lamberti acknowledges these concerns and outlines plans to address them in the market redesign.
- Current operations rely on diesel fuel for refrigeration in tractor trailers
- The redesign plan includes two new, larger refrigerated warehouses
- The goal is to eliminate the use of refrigerated truck units to improve air quality
- Council Member Salamanca expresses support for the project moving forward
Rafael Salamanca, Jr.
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But the concern that I do have, it has a negative effect, which is the environment and the air quality and how it affects our air qualities.
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And right now, these markets are running on diesel fuel, especially well, the produce market is running on diesel fuel because the tractor trailers, they use it for refrigeration.
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And I know that we've been able to secure, I I believe we're at $600,000,000 right for a facelift.
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Can you give us an update as to what's the next steps?
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Where are we with the construction of a new market?
Michelle Lamberti
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Yeah.
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I'd look.
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Really happy to do that.
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And really wanna echo our concern.
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We share, like, your same concern around environmental concerns, particularly in in the neighborhood, around those refrigerated truck units.
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And so one of the main components of the complete redesign of the produce market is really to eliminate those.
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Like, want those gone, and we'll have two new much larger, larger refrigerated warehouses so that we can get rid of those.
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In terms of the process, we released, a request for questions.
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I think it was like early March.
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We had an initial info session with over 80 attendees.
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Responses are due at the April, and we and this is for the design build as you know.
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And we anticipate the RFP for the design build to go out this summer.
Rafael Salamanca, Jr.
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Would this be a design and build project?
Michelle Lamberti
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Yes.
Rafael Salamanca, Jr.
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Okay.
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I look forward to this project, and you will have my full support on how we can do to move this forward.