Cobble Hill Blog

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From Brooklyn Beep Marty Markowitz comes this press release:

Yesterday, July 20, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz joined Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Congressman Jerrold Nadler, Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, New York City Economic Development Corporation President Seth Pinsky, Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce President Carl Hum and Sims Metal Management Group Chief Executive Officer Dan Dienst at a press conference at the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal in Sunset Park to announce programs to expand the reactivation of Brooklyn’s working waterfront.

Through the “Sunset Park Waterfront Vision Plan,” the City will invest more than $165 million - with an additional $105 million in State, Federal and private funds - in the industrial waterfront, activate 3.5 million square feet of industrial space, create 2,000 industrial and construction jobs over the next two years and 11,000 jobs in all, add 22 acres of open space and reduce regional truck traffic by 70,000 trips per year. Mayor Bloomberg also outlined “DiverseCity,” the Administration’s economic diversification strategy to spur entrepreneurship and target industries in which New York City has competitive advantages, including: certain industrial and distribution subsectors, green building and design, bioscience, media, tourism, fashion, financial services and nonprofits

“Brooklyn is booming,” said BP Markowitz. “And the initiatives and projects outlined today will add to that boom. In Sunset Park, just as the strong commitment to brownfields cleanup and the opening of the waterfront to residents with a new park constitute great leaps forward, we also applaud the announcement that Phoenix, Sims and Axis will become full fledged members of the Brooklyn Waterfront community. These companies are the bellwether of future industrial growth in the area-growth that will create good jobs and utilize environmentally sustainable construction and operational practices while employing water and rail transportation to take trucks off our neighborhood streets. I commend Mayor Bloomberg on his continued faith in, and attention tom the borough of Brooklyn.”