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January 17, 2006
DEVELOPERS BUILDING UP HOPE FOR A BOOM YEAR IN BROOKLYN
The NY Post
By Patrick Gallahue
“It’s the supernova borough,” says Brooklyn Councilman David Yassky, about all the development coming our way.
Brooklyn is expecting to see many more projects breaking ground this year, compared to years past. Projects the pipeline: * Brooklyn Bridge State Park (if you could call it a park), * Atlantic Yards (we're working on this one), * IKEA, * Whole Foods, * the cruise-ship port, and * the opening of the expansion of the Marriott.
While Yassky, Marty Markowitz and Michael Burke, president of the pro-development Downtown Brooklyn Council, are looking forward to the exciting changes, others, like Community Consulting's Brian Ketcham, express concern and dismay over the lack of infrastructure improvements.
Brian Ketchum [sic], an urban-planning consultant, said, “If all of this gets built, [every week] it will generate another half-million subways trips, another 100,000 to 120,000 car trips and 100,000 bus trips — and there is absolutely nothing being done to accommodate that.”
Posted by lumi at January 17, 2006 10:12 AM