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EDC announces South Brooklyn
Marine Terminal reactivation
BY JAIME DEJESUS
JDEJESUS@BROOKLYNREPORTER.COM
On Tuesday, May 8, the New
York City Economic Development
Corporation (NYCEDC)
and local leaders announced plans to
reactivate the South Brooklyn Marine
Terminal (SBMT) as a major shipping
hub with the Red Hook Container
Terminal and Industry City, slated
to operate as the Sustainable South
Brooklyn Marine Terminal (SSBMT),
described as a vibrant cluster of
maritime activity that will bring new
industrial uses and add hundreds of
jobs in the Sunset Park area.
President and CEO of Red Hook
Container Terminal and designated
operator of SSBMT Mike Stamatis told
this paper about the plan.
"SSBMT presents a unique opportunity
to expand upon and bring in
different and new uses to the city such
as offshore wind development," he
explained. "It would open up jobs and
job training as part of a new and an
exciting industry for local residents. It
also gives us the opportunity to serve
businesses that are here now that are
having trouble finding places to do
business."
The lease runs through 2054. In all,
64.5 acres of the terminal would be
reactivated, and over 900,000 metric
tons of material would be moved annually
through the port, eliminating over
11,000 truck trips a year. New uses for
the facility include waste paper recycling
and export; the importation of
lumber, salt, and aggregate material;
and container-on-barge operations, all
of which will support local businesses,
New York Harbor and the regional
waterfront.
"This is really an exciting opportunity,"
Stamatis added. "That hub has really
been underutilized and dormant
for such a long time and we’re excited
that the EDC decided to maintain it as
maritime facility because maritime
facilities in New York City are in really
short supply."
"This is a victory," agreed Councilmember
Carlos Menchaca, one, he
added, "that the community can feel
because they have been part of this
conversation through the Task Force
that we set in motion back in 2015.
There was a very contentious moment
when I said, 'Pause. We have to do it
right.' This made it all worth it."
The City Council approved a longterm
Master Lease between the city
and NYCEDC in 2015 to activate an industrial
maritime facility at the SBMT.
Jobs are a major selling point as over
250 quality positions are expected to
be available in the near-term, with potential
for significant growth further
down the road.
"The people that work for us are the
most important components," said
Stamatis. "Without having the people
here, we can't do what we do. As we
develop the site, these new industries
and tenants and cargoes that are moving
in and out of the terminal are going
to require skilled people doing these
jobs. The creation of good paying jobs
is one of our biggest goals for the long
term. These various uses that we're
looking at with SBMT will be a strong
driver towards that goal."
"This is going to mean hundreds of
jobs for the neighborhood, quality
high-paying jobs," Menchaca agreed.
"We are at a time right now when the
city has really turned to Sunset Park
and said we want to invest in you. That’s
also the result of that agreement in 2015."
However, back in 2015, Sunset Parkers
had raised concerns that traffic
and pollution problems could result
from the move.
With the new plan, those issues
"are being addressed," said Menchaca.
In addition, he said, "We’re having
better conversations about how we
remove trucks from the streets. It’s
not just going to mean less trucks
for the city. It's going to mean better
trucks, smaller and sustainable like
CNG trucks. Those are things we are
exploring right now with SBMT. We
are going to create a vehicular traffic
plan that works for us and our neighborhood.
That’s what we deserve as a
community."
"I commute into the city every day
and traffic and congestion has really
been a problem everywhere," Stamatis
concurred. "SBMT can be part of
the solution by reducing congestion,
reducing pollution, reducing repairs
on roadways and bridges through utilizing
the waterways to go in and out
of the city and creating distribution
points. SBMT is part of a longer term
solution for that problem."
Borough President Eric Adams
stressed the borough's “rich history
in shipping and maritime commerce.
"The reactivation of the South Brooklyn
Marine Terminal is key to my
administration's mission of reviving
our working waterfront and creating
hundreds of quality local jobs," he
said. "The sun is rising on a new day
for Sunset Park, and I look forward to
working with our community every
step of the way as this new vision for
the terminal is realized.”
"SBMT can be a major part of America’s
Marine Highway System," said
Congressmember Nydia Velázquez,
who praised the jobs the facility will
generate as well as its contribution to
the environment. "As SBMT serves
as an anchor for locally produced,
offshore wind power," she continued,
"this initiative will help contribute
to a more sustainable future, while
further fueling job growth."
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The New York City Economic Development Corporation and
local leaders celebrated the de Blasio administration’s plan to
reactivate the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal.