The area is slated to be transformed, with crucial upgrades to the port and working waterfront that would allow an expansion of consumer goods transported there, taking vehicles off the road.
EDC's president, Andrew Kimball, emphasized the need to plan smartly and harmoniously integrate housing with modernized industrial maritime uses that can coexist with public waterfront access.
One of the biggest emerging tensions is over the prospect of shrinking and repurposing some of the last remaining working waterfront, the only port serving New York City east of the Hudson.
Many observers and those on the task force remembered how other working waterfronts around the city disappeared to make room for housing, raising concerns about losing this vital resource.
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