"After multiple delays, a task force entrusted with the fate of the Brooklyn Marine Terminal has voted to allow plans to build thousands of units of housing on the site to move forward. The task force, chaired by Rep. Dan Goldman, on Monday advanced in a 17-to-eight vote the $3.5 billion plan to redevelop the 122-acre marine terminal, which runs from Cobble Hill to Red Hook. The latest plan calls for 6,000 apartments on the site, with 40 percent set aside as affordable."
"Monday's vote simply means that plans for the terminal will move forward, with the environmental review and the general project plan process coming next. But the task force had the ability to kill the project before it even began the state's public review process and its fate appeared precarious over the last few months. The vote was postponed five times, as the task force struggled to get enough yes votes to move the project forward."
Task force members voted 17-to-eight to advance a $3.5 billion redevelopment of the 122-acre Brooklyn Marine Terminal between Cobble Hill and Red Hook. The plan includes 6,000 apartments with 40 percent affordable set-aside, roughly half the site with modernized piers and a new marginal pier, 275,000 square feet of light industrial space, an up-to-400-key hotel, and 28 acres of open space. The vote moves the project into environmental review and the general project plan process. The proposal underwent multiple revisions from an initial 12,000 units down to 6,000 and faced delays and opposition over industrial loss concerns.
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