In 2013 a new ownership came together to invest in Industry City, a massive, privately owned industrial complex on the Brooklyn waterfront.
- When you come here, it's like, gee, there's this hum in the air.
There's something going on here.
They're transforming the neighborhood.
- We're looking to create a zoning text amendment to establish the special Sunset Park innovation district.
- There are three and a half million square feet for the "innovation economy."
What does this mean?
- My landlord, she's 90 years old.
God forbid, if she were to pass and they sell the house.
Where is my family going to go?
- These developers, they're preventing the largest significant maritime industrial area in New York City from building for a climate future.
Timeline.
We have a date.
And we're ready to move forward.
I'm asking you to help them understand why it makes sense to move.