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Council member Alexa Avilés inquires about cold storage capacity issues at the Hunts Point Market and potential solutions, including using off-site locations like Brooklyn Marine Terminal. Matthew D'Arrigo responds, discussing the market redevelopment plans, challenges of expensive real estate in New York, and the potential benefits of adequate refrigeration systems.

D'Arrigo suggests that the market redevelopment will significantly address capacity issues
He recommends keeping any additional cold storage facilities privatized for efficiency
D'Arrigo emphasizes the potential benefits of adequate refrigeration, including improved product shelf life and freshness

Alexa Avilés

1:39:16

Hi there.

1:39:17

Thank you so much for your testimony.

1:39:19

I was curious about the capacity issue that you were talking about and, you know, obviously using the TRU's to try to address it.

1:39:29

So I represent the area that includes Brooklyn Marine Terminal, and we talk a lot about coal storage.

1:39:39

Is do you need this coal storage on-site or would a southern location that that could be used to barge service help to alleviate some of that, challenge that you're facing with cup with, storage capacity?

Matthew D'Arrigo

1:39:59

Look.

1:39:59

Speaking personally from the Bronx perspective, the market redevelopment will go a long way to solving our capacity issues.

1:40:08

New York is expensive.

1:40:10

I I always have thought that the oversupply that comes into our market would might be better off being handled in New Jersey at a cold storage for 17¢ a square foot rather than 32 or whatever it is.

1:40:25

Although we don't pay it, but that's what the market would dictate normally.

1:40:28

But if you had cold storage in other boroughs, like in Brooklyn, I would urge that the city tries to keep it privatized, because I do think that the one size fits all and the kind of rigid structure that would develop from a public project.

1:40:54

I think it would be overbuilt, very frankly.

1:40:57

So the Brooklyn produce market, there's merchants there.

1:41:01

I think that's a good place to start about whether they need a redevelopment because that market might even be older than our market.

1:41:09

There's, I think, almost no hope at the individual green grocer level, except for maybe small business loans to get get some infrastructure there.

1:41:21

But if you've got the 25 merchants in the Hunts Point market, a adequate refrigeration system, which the new market would do, I think a whole lot would would develop that would be very positive.

1:41:37

I think it would add shelf life to the product, add freshness to the product, and, you know, in generally be very, very beneficial to the industry.

1:41:51

I'm not really sure I answered your question

Alexa Avilés

1:41:52

very well.

1:41:53

It's a it's a helpful no.

1:41:54

Thank you.

1:41:55

I your your response is helpful.

1:41:57

I appreciate it.

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Thank you so much.

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