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PRESENTATION
Project benefits and community impact of Metropolitan Park
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This chapter outlines the various benefits and positive community impacts expected from the Metropolitan Park project.
- Creation of a new 25-acre public park, to be built and maintained by the project team.
- Generation of 23,000 union jobs during construction and 6,000 full-time union jobs post-completion.
- Complete transformation of the MTA station for improved accessibility.
- Addition of a 5,000-seat live music venue for year-round entertainment.
- Commitment to local hiring with a minimum 30% MWBE requirement, aiming for 35% and beyond.
- Strategic location near major transportation hubs, including LaGuardia Airport, highways, subway, and LIRR.
Michael Sullivan
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Thank you, David.
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First, let me thank Chairman Riley, Councilman Moya for your tireless leadership to really transform the area around Citi Field.
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The new soccer stadium is going to be beautiful, transformative, and we're really excited about our project to help try to tie together all these great sports venues.
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So thank you for your leadership.
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Councilmember Schulman, thank you for your input every step of the way.
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Really appreciate the council's attention.
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Look forward to your questions.
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What we're doing with this project is basically taking 50 acres of asphalt parking lots, taking half the land, 25 acres of it, and building a brand new 25 acre New York City public park.
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We are building it for the parks department.
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We will maintain it long term and provide the public safety for the park.
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We're gonna create 23,000 union jobs throughout this project and over 6,000 full time union jobs once the project is open.
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To my brothers and sisters in labor here today who are gonna staff this building for us when it opens, we appreciate you being here, and we appreciate your support.
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As Greg talked about, we're gonna, as part of a community benefits package, completely transform the MTA station.
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We're gonna build a live music venue, 5,000 seat venue so that we can do concerts, not just when the Mets are away a couple times a summer, but year round.
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We're going to have lots of great food options.
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We're going to have an MWBE local hiring requirement of a minimum of 30%, but we've committed to our borough president that the goal is 35 and beyond.
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If we hire from the neighborhoods around us, we're going to blow these numbers out of the water.
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We sit in the middle of one of the most diverse neighborhoods on earth, and we have committed to local hiring and have a number of local hiring partners that are going to help us with this.
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We believe this is the best site in New York City for a project of this kind.
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As Julissa mentioned, we're right next to LaGuardia Airport.
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We're at the intersection of three major highways.
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We're at the intersection of these three great sports venues, the New York Mets, the new soccer stadium for the New York City Football Club, and the US Tennis.
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We're on the seven line.
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We're on the Long Island Railroad, and thanks to council member Moya's leadership and our borough president's involvement, we're pursuing a new ferry service to the site.