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SUNSET PARK GREEN RESILIENT INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT a REPORT by COLLECTIVE for COMMUNITY, CULTURE, & ENVIRONMENT for UPROSE & POWWA SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

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SUNSET PARK GREEN RESILIENT INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT a REPORT by COLLECTIVE for COMMUNITY, CULTURE, & ENVIRONMENT for UPROSE & POWWA SEPTEMBER 9, 2019 SUNSET PARK GREEN RESILIENT INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT A REPORT BY COLLECTIVE FOR COMMUNITY, CULTURE, & ENVIRONMENT for UPROSE & POWWA SEPTEMBER 9, 2019 2 SUNSET PARK GREEN RESILIENT INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT PREFACE UPROSE commissioned the Collective for Community Culture and Environment (CCCE) to: 1. Analyze the impacts of zoning changes proposed by Industry City, which would expand luxury commercial development on Sunset Park’s industrial waterfront, 2. Provide technical assistance in creating an alternative proposal, the Green Resilient Industrial District (GRID). The GRID proposal addresses climate resilience, mitigation, adaptation and a Just Transition. The evaluate of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the land use actions, awaits the release of the DEIS and the Special Sunset Park Innovation District zoning text. This report is the compilation of data analyses, interdisciplinary research, and plans and policies related to Sunset Park, climate adaptation, and green industry and clean energy sectors. The following report was prepared by CCCE with edits provided by UPROSE. The report consists of three sections: 1. An analysis of existing conditions: land use, demographics, housing and industrial real estate conditions, industrial base and labor force. Models of sustainable industrial sectors and policies to address climate change and environmental justice consistent with the existing maritime and industrial character of Sunset Park. 2. A geographic framework of implementation strategies to facilitate a Green Resilient Industrial District in Sunset Park (GRID). 3. A comparison of GRID and Industry City proposals and recommendations SUNSET PARK GREEN RESILIENT INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 5 INTRODUCTION 13 CONTEXT 16 EXISTING CONDITIONS 21 1. LAND1. LAND USE USE 22 2. DEMOGRAPHIC2. DEMOGRAPHIC CONDITIONS CONDITIONS 29 3. HOUSING3. HOUSING 30 4. INDUSTRIAL4. INDUSTRIAL REAL REALESTATE: ESTATE: PROPERTY PROPERTY SALES SALES 32 5. INDUSTRIAL5. INDUSTRIAL REAL REALESTATE: ESTATE: PROPERTY PROPERTY LEASES LEASES 34 6. SUNSET6. SUNSET PARK PARKLABOR LABOR FORCE FORCE 36 7. SUNSET7. SUNSET PARK PARKJOBS JOBS 38 8. SUNSET8. SUNSET PARK PARKBUSINESSES BUSINESSES 40 9. ENVIRONMENTAL9. ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS FACTORS 42 SUNSET PARK NEEDS 43 POTENTIAL APPROACHES 51 OPPORTUNITIES & THREATS 59 1. OPPORTUNITIES1. OPPORTUNITIES 60 2. THREATS2. THREATS 62 SUNSET PARK GREEN RESILIENT INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT (GRID) 64 RECOMMENDATIONS 73 CONCLUSION 83 4 SUNSET PARK GREEN RESILIENT INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY EXECUTIVE SUMMARY New York City’s climate challenges. Sunset Park has the opportunity to become New York City’s first Green Sunset Park is a strong, ethnically diverse working-class neighborhood that Resilient Industrial District. Based on the goals of all community and City has provided housing options and work opportunities to both long time plans for Sunset Park, the GRID would support maritime and industrial New Yorkers and new immigrants. It also hosts New York City’s second development that integrate climate resilience and adaptation measures largest Industrial Business Zone (IBZ), many of whose employees live in the and provide good local jobs and workforce training. The development of neighborhood and surrounding communities. a Sunset Park GRID could become a national model for local grassroots planning and implementation of a Just Transition economy. GRID can In recent years, rising prices for housing and industrial space is operationalize many goals of the nationally proposed Green New Deal, threatening the affordability of the neighborhood for current residents New York State passed Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act and businesses. Market pressures from the gentrification of adjacent (CLCPA), and the green development goals called for by climate justice Brooklyn neighborhoods are exacerbated by the influx of high tech, design, advocates. entertainment and retail uses such as Industry City. Many developers see Sunset Park’s industrial waterfront as a place to change into commercial Much of Sunset Park is industrially zoned. It is New York City’s largest spaces that do not support the local workforce or prepare the waterfront Significant Maritime and Industrial Area (SMIA) as well as an Industrial for climate events. Business Zone. Many neighborhood blocks are designated as Opportunity Zones. The industrial waterfront is largely publicly owned with vacant land, The Industry City rezoning, if approved as proposed, will likely result in and the deep water and rail access can be developed as a multi-modal hub. greater proliferation of commercial development in the manufacturing The industrially zoned areas in Sunset Park provide over 12,000 jobs. There zones in Sunset Park. This will result in gentrification and loss of social are many construction, food, apparel warehousing, e-commerce as well cohesion as white-collar residents move into the neighborhood. This can as green industrial businesses including Sims Municipal Recycling Center, result in even greater price increases and displacement pressures similar Fabscrap and others that are currently planned. Working together, these to those experienced in cities such as San Francisco and Seattle after they businesses could further the synergy accruing from the city’s first dynamic enacted similar rezoning. The resulting displacement will hurt the most center for green industrial development. environmentally and economically vulnerable residents and businesses. The GRID will: 1. Leverage the existing green and industrial resources and A BETTER ALTERNATIVE: GRID public investments in Sunset Park, 2. Harness additional targeted technical and financial assistance to improve air quality and local environmental Industry City‘s proposed rezoning is not “innovative” or needed in Sunset conditions, and 3. Create new green jobs such as those in energy retrofits Park. A number of tech hubs are already in place or planned throughout and green industries, and 4. Provide workforce development to make sure New York City and there is certainly no lack of commercial, retail, hotel, or that these benefits accrue to New York City workers, which would support entertainment spaces in Brooklyn. In contrast to the Industry City proposal, the goals of the Mayor’s 80X50 plan, New York City Climate Mobilization Act this report proposes the creation of a Green Resilient Industrial District (CMA), Freight NYC and the CLCPA. (GRID) - which would foster sustainable industrial development and create a truly “innovative” district that would benefit Sunset Park’s industrial waterfront and protect the Sunset Park community while responding to 6 SUNSET PARK GREEN RESILIENT INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT HOW IS THE SUNSET PARK GRID STRUCTURED? The proposed Sunset Park GRID encompasses all of the industrially zoned land in Sunset Park including Industry City (current and proposed expansion), and upland residential areas up to 9th Ave. It is a comprehensive programmatic overlay and requires zoning actions. It targets technical and financial assistance to apply the concepts and strategies of Green Ports, Eco-Industrial Park and Resource Recovery/Circular Economy to Sunset Park. The principles and goals of Environmental Justice, Workforce Development, Climate Resiliency and Just Transition apply to development in all four Sub Areas. The goals of the GRID mirror crucial policy goals of New York City and the local community: ■ Preserve the maritime and industrial character of the Sunset Park waterfront ■ Retain and create well-paying working-class jobs that that respond to the educational and skill levels of existing workforce ■ Support green industrial innovation that capitalizes on the unique synergies of the port, green transport, resource recovery and construction, automotive, food and other local businesses ■ Promote climate resiliency and Just Transition through circular industrial economy and environmental justice principles and practices The GRID is divided into four sub-areas based on geography, land use and zoning. The Sub-Areas are: ■ A Green Waterfront and Industrial Core (Sub Area A) ■ A Green Transportation and Sustainable Light Industrial Area (Sub Area B) ■ A Green Manufacturing and Design Area (encompassing the proposed Industry City rezoning) (Sub Area C) ■ A Residential Sustainability Pilot (Sub Area D) SUNSET PARK GREEN RESILIENT INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT 7 SUMMARY OF OVERALL RECOMMENDATIONS Establish a multi-stakeholder organization to guide, implement and Create a Manufacturing and Industrial Energy Exchange (MIEEx), a training promote the GRID. and research center, modeled after the Building Energy Exchange (BEEx), in Sunset Park to: ■ Designate Sunset Park as New York City’s first Green Resilient Industrial District (GRID), a programmatic overlay that incorporates ■ Develop programs that assist businesses in greening operations and circular economy, eco-industrial and environmental justice practices principles. ■ Provide workforce training in green building trades, off shore wind ■ Solicit input from the business and larger community to create more and vehicle electrification and community engagement and training. detailed design and implementation strategies for GRID. ■ Advocate for government commitments to provide technical and financial support for Sunset Park business and property owners to The Department of City Planning to: reduce their carbon emissions through: ■ Reject the Industry City proposed Special District rezoning □ Clean energy infrastructure
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