Coming Events

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ABOUT THE EVENT

The development of the Brooklyn Marine Terminal (BMT), a 122-acre, city-owned, waterfront parcel in Red Hook, has momentous implications for the future of New York City and has been debated for decades by city agencies, waterfront advocates, and community groups. Last May, the Mayor and Governor announced the creation of a community task force led by the New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC) and charged with formulating a vision for the development of the site, which runs along the Columbia Street Waterfront down to the Red Hook Cruise Ship Terminal. Despite this ostensible commitment to community engagement, the process has been marred by a lack of transparency, a compressed time-frame, the absence of a formal public review process, and a failure to entertain development scenarios that diverge from a seemingly predetermined outcome. Nonetheless, the City expects the taskforce to vote on a plan by April 1.

 

The magnitude and significance of the BMT calls attention to the deficiencies of what has become the typical planning approach in EDC-spearheaded projects. This panel will address how this process falls short of meaningful community participation and consider how development projects and the role of the community might be reconceived so as to better subject planning goals and scenarios to public deliberation. 

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This webinar is free and open to the public, but you must register!