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| Another Progressive Win: Brooklyn Development Plan Intended To Create 15,000 Jobs Is Shelved |
| 2020-09-24 |
| [HotAir] Remember when Amazon tried to bring 25,000 new jobs to Queens and AOC and others blocked them? Something very similar just happened in Brooklyn. A development group wanted to invest a bunch of money and create an estimated 15,000 additional jobs but local progressives groups blocked a rezoning that was necessary for the plan to go forward. Now the company behind it has withdrawn it. Brooklyn may be struggling with double digit unemployment in the midst of a pandemic but they are still more worried about gentrification than jobs: SEE ALSO: Just 43% of young black voters trust congressional Dems to do what’s best for black people The project, which required the city’s approval to rezone the area, had been cast as a way to bring jobs to an underdeveloped industrial section of Sunset Park, and supporters argued that the city’s massive job losses in recent months gave them an even more compelling reason to move forward with plans to create a shopping and office behemoth there. New York City’s unemployment rate last month was 16 percent, nearly twice the national average... "If a project like this can’t succeed, it concerns me very much about the future of New York City — a place I’ve spent my whole life," the chief executive of Industry City, Andrew Kimball, said in an interview on Wednesday... The proposal to rezone the area was stridently opposed by a handful of community groups, most notably Uprose, an environmental justice group, and Protect Sunset Park. The grass-roots opposition helped win over local elected officials, including Representatives Nydia M. Velázquez, Jerrold Nadler, Yvette D. Clarke and Hakeem Jeffries, who sent a letter to the City Council on Tuesday opposing the rezoning and urging council members to listen to residents. While business leaders are shaking their heads, local progressives including the councilman for the area are celebrating this as a win for "people power." |
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| #1 So that's why 'Jerrold' sh*t his pants. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2020-09-24 12:37 |