Red Hook Piers Development: Round One

The city's Red Hook Piers redevelopment effort, which hit a bump in the road when some much-noted protests erupted over its plans to acquire and shut down the Red Hook container port, is taking the path of less resistance for now. Yesterday afternoon, The Real Estate reported that the city's Economic Development Corporation had released an RFP to develop a marina, marina repair shop and related facilities at Pier Ten. (If you are into reading such things, you can click here for A PDF of the document.)

The RFP stays away from the more controversial "upland" piers, but notes that it's the city's hope to have control over them by fall and invites bidders to include a vision for developing them too. (In the city's words, "Respondents are encouraged to include a future phase of development on a portion of Pier 10..."). The RFP also notes an intent to extend Conover Street all the way to DeGraw Streeet and also notes the intention to create a 30-foot-wide greenway. Back in December we wrote about one vision for the Atlantic Basin for a Red Hook Beach and Brooklyn Maritime Center proposed by New York Water Taxi and developer Douglas Durst. We assume they will be among those submitting proposals, which are due on February 19.


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