SUNSET PARK’S JOBS, WORKING WATERFRONT, AND INDUSTRY CITY
Working group convened by
Council Member Carlos Menchaca
July 31, 2019
AGENDA Welcome, introductions, goals for today
Sunset Park’s Economy and Employment
Sunset Park’s Working Waterfront
Competing Visions
Industry City’s Vision
Green Jobs
Tools to strengthen industrial districts and workforce
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REVIEW GOAL FOR THE WORKING GROUP
Advise CM Menchaca on whether or not a rezoning has potential to be a net benefit for Sunset Park
Identify minimum criteria necessary to entertain the rezoning proposal
If yes, identify non-negotiables elements of a plan and tools/strategies
If no, articulate why
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UNDERSTANDING
IC’S PROPOSAL
BRINGING IT
TOGETHER
JULY 11 AUGUST 15
WORKING GROUP CALENDAR
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Understanding the
rezoning proposalFurther develop tools
and finalize
recommendations
WORKING
WATERFRONT
JULY 24
Discuss data, concerns
and solutions around
the working
waterfront and local
workforce
HOUSING AND
DISPLACEMENT
JULY 31
Discuss data, concerns
and solutions around
housing affordability
and displacement
SUNSET PARK’S ECONOMY AND EMPLOYMENT
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EDUCATION INDICATORS
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Education Sunset Park NYC
Students performing at grade level in ELA, 4th grade (2018) 50.3% 49.3%
Students performing at grade level in math, 4th grade (2018) 52.3% 46.4%
White students performing at grade level in math, 4th grade (2017) - 67.4%
Hispanic students performing at grade level in math, 4th grade (2017) - 33.6%
Asian students performing at grade level in math, 4th grade (2017) - 74.4%
Population 25+ with Bachelor’s Degree or higher (2017) 29.3% 37.3%
Population 25+ without a HS Diploma (2017) 37.5% 18.1%
Source: NYU Furman Center 2018 State of New York City’s Housing and Neighborhoods
• Sunset Park students are above average for 4th grade ELA and math performance.
• City wide, racial disparities for these indicators are severe.
EMPLOYMENT AND BUSINESS INDICATORS
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Employment and Income Sunset Park BK
Unemployment rate (2017) 6.7% 6.4%
Poverty rate (2017) 22.1% 19.8%
Median household income (2017) $57,870 $58,030
Source: NYU Furman Center 2018 State of New York City’s Housing and Neighborhoods
Housing noteLandlords often require a prospective tenant to have 40x monthly rent to qualify for an apartment.
Using Sunset Park’s median household as an example: earning $57,870/annually means you qualify
for an apartment asking $1,446/month.
- Sunset Park March 2019 median asking rent (streeteasy.com): $2,000
• Levels of median unemployment and poverty are slightly higher in Sunset Park than BK at large, and
income is slightly slower
• Residents and advocates argue that underemployment is perhaps more pressing than unemployment
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900
Manufacturing
Wholesale Trade
Supermarkets
Computer Systems Design
Hotels and Motels
Retail Banks
Performing Arts Companies
Real Estate, Rental, Leasing
Arts, Entertainment, Recreation
Educational
Administrative, Waste Management
Architecture and Design
Transportation, Warehousing
Finance, Insurance
Legal and Accounting
Information
Construction
Health Care, Social Assistance
Professional, Scientific, Technical
Food Services and Drinking Places
Accommodation, Food
Retail Trade
Number of Businesses inSunset Park and Windsor Terrace
2010-2016
2010 20168
+151+127
+123+53
-25
-70
Between 2010 and 2016, most
number of new businesses in retail,
food, professional categories
Loss of businesses establishments
only in wholesale trade and
manufacturing sectors
Sunset Park and
Windsor Terrace
2010 2016 % change
Total number of
businesses
3,349 3,994 +19%
Source: NYC Neighborhood Economic Profiles, NYC Comptroller. 2018
9Source: NYC Neighborhood Economic Profiles, NYC Comptroller. 2018
* These categories are for
illustrative purposes only.
929
458
921
627
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
900
1,000
Manufacturing; wholesale trade;transportation, warehousing
Finance, insurance; real estate,rental, leasing; professional, scientific,
technical; information; computersystems design; legal and accounting;
architecture and design
Num
ber
of
Bus
iness
es
Office-oriented and Warehouse-oriented Businesses* in Sunset Park and Windsor Terrace
2010-2016
2010 2016
JOBS PERSPECTIVE FROM THE GROUND
OPPORTUNITIES FOR A BETTER TOMORROW
CLIENTS FROM SUNSET PARK (FY19)
17-24 year olds who are out of school and out of work
• 46.7% reading less than 9th grade level
• 70% numeracy skills less than 9th grade level
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OPPORTUNITIES FOR A BETTER TOMORROW
CONCERNS IN MAKING JOB CONNECTIONS
1. What does someone actually need to know and be able to do for higher paying jobs? (Are employers willing to forego advanced degrees if the skills are there?)
2. What investments are needed to create job skills trainings to meet the needs of these industries? Are trainings enough? What else is needed?
3. How do we make sure economic growth improves the lives of SP residents who have low educational attainment, who are underemployed, or working a low wage job? (Knowing that the strategies for these are varied)
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SUNSET PARK* INNOVATION LAB USERS AND JOB CONNECTIONSMAY 2018-MAY 2019
Job connection with some high school (12.5%)
Security guard - $16.hr
(not IC) Hospital maintenance - $17/hr
(not IC) Shade assembler - $15/hr
Warehouse assistant - $15/hr
Deckhand - $15/hr
Production associate - $13.50/hr
(not IC) (non CDL) - $15/hr
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Job connection with high school diplomas (61.8%)
(not IC) Ramp Agent - $15/hr
$15/hr
(not IC) Housing officer at Food First -$15/hr
Assembler - $15/hr
(not IC) Call Center customer service - $15/hr
(not IC) Longshore worker - $20/hr+
Prep Cook - $13.50/hr
Catering - $16/hr and up
(not IC) Shade Assembler - $15/hr
Security guard - $16/hr
Event Coordinator - $25/hr
Dispatcher - $15.61/hr
(not IC) Medical Assistant - $16 to $20/hr
Resident Manager - $20-$30/hr
Welder - $18-$27/hr
Office Assistant - $15-16/hr
(not IC) Mailroom Clerk - $15/hr*Zip codes 11220 and 11232
Job connections with some college (23.6%)
•Marketing/Communications - $19-$23/hr
• E-commerce studio assistant - $17/hr
• Dispatcher - $15.61/hr
• Graphic designer - $40k to 45k /annual
• Production/Event assistant - $25/hr
• Property manager - $15-$18/hr
• Receptionist - $18/hr
• (not IC) Shade Assembler -- $15/hr
• (not IC) Machine operator - $16.50/hr
SUNSET PARK 5TH AVE COMMERCIAL CORRIDORBUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT OBSERVATIONS
• Typically small storefronts, neighborhood customer focus
• Building ownership not dominated by large corporations
• Vacancies not driven exclusively by rent increases
• Asking prices for retail leases increasing
• Blend of "Mom & Pop" and national retail brands
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5th Avenue and 52nd Street, Sunset Park
• New trends• Upper floor residential conversions
• New charter schools
• Upscale food/drink establishments
• Challenges• Infrastructure, transportation, sanitation, street
vending
• Language and cultural gaps between merchants and City
• IC tenants, workers and customers isolated from neighborhood commercial strips.
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5th Avenue and 52nd Street, Sunset Park
SUNSET PARK 5TH AVE COMMERCIAL CORRIDORBUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT OBSERVATIONS
SUNSET PARK’S WORKING WATERFRONT
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THE WATERFRONT IS PRIMARILY A JOBS CENTER
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Industrial & Manufacturing
Transportation & Utility
Commercial & Office Buildings
Industrial Business Zone (IBZ)
Sunset Park Land Use (2019)
Source: NYC Department of City Planning Zoning and Land Use Map. zola.planning.nyc.gov
INDUSTRIAL JOBS CONCENTRATE IN IBZS
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WHAT ARE GROWTH INDUSTRIES IN IBZS? WHAT ARE DECLINING INDUSTRIES?
Citywide Context
Healthy local economy and population gains in New York City
The growing industrial sectors are tied to the local economy and not to national or global markets. (IBZs do well when city does well – b/c it supports
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SOUTHWEST BROOKLYN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (SBIDC) OBSERVATIONS
WHAT ARE GROWTH INDUSTRIES IN IBZS? WHAT ARE DECLINING INDUSTRIES?
Brooklyn:
Manufacturing sector has significantly outperformed the city as a whole since the Great Recession, mostly from companies at the intersection of manufacturing, technology and design.
Manufacturing jobs citywide declined by 7 percent citywide, but were up by 1 percent in Brooklyn.
The borough has experienced net job gains in several manufacturing subsectors (connected to tech or design), including (New York State Department of Labor, QCEW, Q3 2018 and Q3 2011.
electrical equipment and appliances manufacturing (which had a net increase of 347 jobs since 2011),
jewelry and silverware manufacturing (+218 jobs),
ornamental and architectural metal products manufacturing (+110 jobs), furniture and related products manufacturing (+82 jobs),
medical equipment and supplies manufacturing (+81 jobs),
and machinery manufacturing (+21 jobs).20
SOUTHWEST BROOKLYN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (SBIDC) OBSERVATIONS
WHAT ARE GROWTH AND DECLINING INDUSTRIES IN IBZS?
IBZs Citywide: The largest sectors in IBZs are all industrial.
In M districts beyond IBZs, industrial sectors are somewhat smaller and just over half of the employees worked in Retail Trade, Health Care & Social Assistance (both non-industrial) Construction and Transportation.
Southwest (SW) IBZ: 2000-17 Overall Trend: industrial firms and jobs have remained level/slightly grown, while non-industrial have gained, and
accounted for most of job growth
Appx number of (total) businesses in the SW IBZ: 1,700
Appx number of (total) workers in the SW IBZ: 27,750
Appx number of Industrial businesses in SW IBZ: 950 (~B/t 52% and ___%)
Appx number of Industrial workers in SW IBZ: 14,000
Large industry and job concentrations in Sunset Park IBZ: Transportation
Food Manufacturing
Specialty Trade Contracting
Construction of Buildings jobs
Apparel Manufacturing21
SOUTHWEST BROOKLYN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (SBIDC) OBSERVATIONS
Industrial Community
• State of physical and technological infrastructure
• As-of-right, non-industrial commercial uses
• Speculation and rising rent; Tax Policy
• Lack of predictability and stability for investment (e.g., lease terms)
• Likely loss of industrial land north of Third Street
• Lack of tools for improving property and increasing supply
Residents
• Widening skills gap and need for training (Bridge and “Hard Skills”)
• Pockets of high unemployment, especially in and around public housing
• Lack of internship / apprenticeship opportunities
• Disconnect with next waves of industrial/manufacturing job growth
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IBZ ISSUESSOUTHWEST BROOKLYN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (SBIDC) OBSERVATIONS
Stakeholder Challenges
Employers 1. Small employers lack human resources function / expertise
2. Challenged to hire and retain workers, especially to grow with
company (46% of last quarter’s job orders at the Workforce1
Center went unfilled)
3. Increased minimum wage = expectations are higher
4. “Silver-tsunami”
Candidates 1. Widening skills gap (to match vacancies and / or to grow along
with companies)
2. Increasing number leaving work < 1 year (anecdotal)
3. Disconnect with next waves of industrial job growth
WORKFORCE TRENDS
COMPETING VISIONS FOR SUNSET’S WATERFRONT
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CITY-LED POLICY AND PLANS
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Mayor’s 10-Point Industrial Plan (2015) Sunset Park Waterfront Vision Plan (2009)
NEIGHBORHOOD-LED PLANS AND VISIONS
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Sunset Park 197-A Plan (2007) Sunset Park GRID (2019)
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Plan Creator Goals for Sunset’s Waterfront Specific uses encouraged Specific uses
discouraged
10-Point
Industrial
Plan for
NYC
City of New
York
• $115 million to BAT
• $37 million infrastructure
investment to Sunset Park
• Establish career centers in IBZs
• Invest in Futureworks NYC
• Manufacturing (food, fashion,
metal, film, advanced)
• Transportation and
distribution, wholesale
trading, construction,
telecommunications, utilities,
and waste management
• Limit hotel and
self storage
• No residential
rezonings in
IBZs
Sunset
Park
Vision
Plan
NYC Economic
Development
Corporation
• “Sustainable Industrial Growth”
• +11,000 good jobs, +3 million
SF of industrial space
• Make significant infrastructure
investment
• Promote green industrial
practices
• Maritime-dependent industrial
• Potential expansion of
allowable non-residential uses
N/A
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Plan Creator Goals Sunset’s Waterfront Specific uses
encouraged
Specific uses
discouraged
Sunset Park
197-A Plan
Sunset
Park
Residents
• Increase activation of vacant space
without discouraging industrial uses
• Strengthen the Southwest Brooklyn
Industrial Business Zone
• Preserve affordable manufacturing
and industrial space
• Promote the retrofitting of
privately-owned multi-story
industrial loft buildings to
accommodate new manufacturing
and industrial uses
• manufacturing and
industrial uses
• “Job-intensive, high
performance, state-
of-the-art maritime,
industrial and
related
transportation uses”
• Discourage retail
and office
development
between 3rd and 1st
Avenues unless it
directly supports or
services industrial
uses or reinforces
waterfront access
corridors
UPROSE’s
Green
Resilient
Industrial
District (GRID)
UPROSE • Sunset Park waterfront as the
center for a just transition away
from an extractive fossil-fuel
based economy to a regenerative,
renewable energy based economy
• Green
manufacturing and
industrial jobs
• Hotel
• Large-scale retail
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Both the neighborhood and City plans generally agree that maintaining and expanding manufacturing and industrial uses on the waterfront should be a priority—but there are important differences around specific uses
INDUSTRY CITY’S VISION
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Creator Goal Specific uses encouraged Specific uses
discouraged
Industry City’s
Rezoning Proposal
Industry
City
• Attract business tenants
and encourage job growth
in “innovative economy”
sectors
• 13,000+ jobs on site
• Physically grow the
campus
• Light manufacturing
• Advanced manufacturing
• Media
• Technology
• Film
• Food/beverage establishments
• Large Scale Retail
• Small Scale Retail
• Hotel
Heavy industrial
uses
No Action (sf)
With Action
(sf) Limit (sf)
With Action
% Total
200,000 900,000 900,000 13.5%
10,000 43,003 none 0.6%
1,707,558 415,000 none 6.2%
2,271,672 3,646,925 none 54.7%
Manufacturing 1,135,836 1,823,463 none 27.4%
Artisinal Manufacturing 567,918 911,731 none 13.7%
Office 567,918 911,731 none 13.7%
74,824 74,824 none 1.1%
- 271,619 none 4.1%
- 409,460 625,000 6.1%
358,782 434,299 6.5%
679,960 -
- 471,094 7.1%
Total (sf) 5,302,796 6,666,224
Parking
Nets Training
Hotel
Academic
Common Area
Vacant
Uses
2016 Industry City Scoping Documents
Innovation Economy
Retail
Events
Storage/Warehousing
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WHAT IS INDUSTRY CITY’S STATED PLAN?
No Action
(sf)
With Action
(sf) Limit (sf)
With Action
% Total
200,000 900,000 900,000
Local Retail 97,050 512,272 900,000 7.8%
Destination Retail 102,950 387,728 900,000 5.9%
10,000 43,003 none 0.7%
1,707,558 415,000 none 6.3%
2,238,276 3,573,782 none 54.4%
74,824 74,824 none 1.1%
- 271,619 none 4.1%
- 386,546 625,000 5.9%
358,782 435,337 6.6%
679,960 - -
- 471,094 7.2%
Total (sf) 5,269,400 6,571,205
AcademicVertical
Circulation/Mechanical
Vacant
Parking
2017 Industry City Scoping Documents
Innovation Economy
Uses
Retail
Event Space
Storage/Warehousing
BK Nets Training
Hotel
Note: These projections are from Environmental Impact Study documents called the Draft Scope of Work (DSOW.) IC released a DSOW in
2016 and updated it in 2017. These projections are created solely to analyze a potential future environmental impact. These numbers do not
reflect exactly what will happen. For uses where the “limit” is shown as “none,” the future complex could be home to 0 square feet or millions.
For uses with a limit identified, that is a maximum; there is no minimum for any use under Industry City’s plan.
No Action (sf)
With Action
(sf) Limit (sf)
With Action
% Total
200,000 900,000 900,000 13.5%
10,000 43,003 none 0.6%
1,707,558 415,000 none 6.2%
2,271,672 3,646,925 none 54.7%
Manufacturing 1,135,836 1,823,463 none 27.4%
Artisinal Manufacturing 567,918 911,731 none 13.7%
Office 567,918 911,731 none 13.7%
74,824 74,824 none 1.1%
- 271,619 none 4.1%
- 409,460 625,000 6.1%
358,782 434,299 6.5%
679,960 -
- 471,094 7.1%
Total (sf) 5,302,796 6,666,224
Parking
Nets Training
Hotel
Academic
Common Area
Vacant
Uses
2016 Industry City Scoping Documents
Innovation Economy
Retail
Events
Storage/Warehousing
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WHAT IS INDUSTRY CITY’S STATED PLAN?
No Action
(sf)
With Action
(sf) Limit (sf)
With Action
% Total
200,000 900,000 900,000
Local Retail 97,050 512,272 900,000 7.8%
Destination Retail 102,950 387,728 900,000 5.9%
10,000 43,003 none 0.7%
1,707,558 415,000 none 6.3%
2,238,276 3,573,782 none 54.4%
74,824 74,824 none 1.1%
- 271,619 none 4.1%
- 386,546 625,000 5.9%
358,782 435,337 6.6%
679,960 - -
- 471,094 7.2%
Total (sf) 5,269,400 6,571,205
AcademicVertical
Circulation/Mechanical
Vacant
Parking
2017 Industry City Scoping Documents
Innovation Economy
Uses
Retail
Event Space
Storage/Warehousing
BK Nets Training
Hotel
Note: These projections are from Environmental Impact Study documents called the Draft Scope of Work (DSOW.) IC released a DSOW in
2016 and updated it in 2017. These projections are created solely to analyze a potential future environmental impact. These numbers do not
reflect exactly what will happen. For uses where the “limit” is shown as “none,” the future complex could be home to 0 square feet or millions.
For uses with a limit identified, that is a maximum; there is no minimum for any use under Industry City’s plan.
IC projects 1.8 million square feet of
manufacturing uses—an additional
700,000 over a future without the
rezoning (“no action.” Importantly
there are no zoning requirements for
manufacturing uses, but this is their
stated plan.
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No Action
(sf)
With Action
(sf)
With Action
% Total
200,000 900,000
Local Retail 97,050 512,272 7.8%
Destination Retail 102,950 387,728 5.9%
10,000 43,003 0.7%
1,707,558 415,000 6.3%
2,238,276 3,573,782 54.4%
74,824 74,824 1.1%
- 271,619 4.1%
- 386,546 5.9%
358,782 435,337 6.6%
679,960 - -
- 471,094 7.2%
Total (sf) 5,269,400 6,571,205
AcademicVertical
Circulation/Mechanical
Vacant
Parking
2017 Industry City Scoping Documents
Innovation Economy
Uses
Retail
Event Space
Storage/Warehousing
BK Nets Training
Hotel
No Action (sf)
With Action
(sf)
With Action
% Total Use Groups With-Action
200,000 900,000 13.5% 6, 10
10,000 43,003 0.6% 9
1,707,558 415,000 6.2% 16
2,271,672 3,646,925 54.7%
Manufacturing 1,135,836 1,823,463 27.4% 16A, 16B, 17B, 17C, 18 Equiv
Artisinal Manufacturing 567,918 911,731 13.7% 11A, 9A Equiv
Office 567,918 911,731 13.7% 6B Equiv
74,824 74,824 1.1% 9
- 271,619 4.1% 5
- 409,460 6.1% 3
358,782 434,299 6.5% -
679,960 - -
- 471,094 7.1% 12
Total (sf) 5,302,796 6,666,224
Parking
Nets Training
Hotel
Academic
Common Area
Vacant
Uses
2016 Industry City Scoping Documents
Innovation Economy
Retail
Events
Storage/Warehousing
WHAT IS INDUSTRY CITY’S STATED PLAN?Note: These projections are from Environmental Impact Study documents called the Draft Scope of Work (DSOW.) IC released a DSOW in
2016 and updated it in 2017. These projections are created solely to analyze a potential future environmental impact. These numbers do not
reflect exactly what will happen. For uses where the “limit” is shown as “none,” the future complex could be home to 0 square feet or millions.
For uses with a limit identified, that is a maximum; there is no minimum for any use under Industry City’s plan.
Zoning Resolution
“Use Groups”
for “Innovation
Economy”
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WHAT IS IC’S “INNOVATION ECONOMY”?AS DEFINED BY USE GROUPS IN SCOPING DOCUMENTS
Manufacturing
Use Group Example Uses
16
Reta
il a
nd
Serv
ice
16A
Retail or service
animal hospital, furniture making shop,
machinery rental, scooter rental, sign
painting shop
16B Automotive
Service
Auto, truck, motorcycle repair, car
wash
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Hig
h p
erf
orm
ing
ma
nufa
ctur
ing
17B
Manufacturing
Establishments
Production of textiles, advertising
displays, food and non-alcoholic
beverage, electrical appliances,
plastic or wood products
17C
Miscellaneous
Trucking terminals, docks for
passenger vessels, green house
18 Low performing
manufacturing
Breweries; production of brick,
chemicals, coal, glue, petroleum
products
Artisanal Manufacturing
Use Group Example Uses
11
Lig
ht
Cus
tom
Ma
nufa
ctur
ing 11A Manufacturing
Establishments
Custom ceramic manufacturing, hair product
manufacturing, printing or instrument manufacturing
9 L
arg
er
Serv
ice
Bus
iness
es
9A Retail or Service
Establishments
Note: several uses
within 9A are not
allowed in M3
Automobile showrooms or sales, banquet halls,
business schools or colleges, costume rental, gyms
(basketball, handball, paddleball, racquetball,
squash, or tennis) medical laboratories; 2,500 sf
printing establishment; dance or music studio, trade
schools
Office
Use Group Example Uses
6
Neig
hborh
ood
Reta
il/Serv
ice
/O
ffic
e
6B Office Offices, business, professional including ambulatory
diagnostic or treatment health care, or governmental
UNDERSTANDING “GREEN JOBS”
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WHAT IS A “GREEN” JOB?
“GREEN JOBS”(New York State Dept. of Labor)
• Expand the use of renewable energy
• Improve energy efficiency
• Supports the environment‘s existence
“CLEAN ENERGY JOBS”(Brookings Institute)
• Production, transmission, distribution of renewable energy
• Improve energy efficiency of products and buildings
• Environmental management
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SUNSET PARK HAS A MAJOR ROLE TO PLAY IN THE REGION’S OFFSHORE WIND FUTURE
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STATE-WIDE JOBS AND ECONOMIC BENEFIT OF OFFSHORE WIND
NYS is committed to 2,400 MW offshore wind energy
• NYS projects 5,000 new jobs in manufacturing, installation, operation and maintenance of offshore wind facilities
• NYS projects that nearly 2,000 of these jobs would be in operations and maintenance and provide long-term career opportunities for New Yorkers
• The average life span of an offshore wind facility is at least 25 years.
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https://www.brookings.edu/research/advancing-inclusion-through-clean-energy-jobs/
DEFINING “CLEAN ENERGY”
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Clean energy jobs are involved in:
(1) The production, transmission and distribution of clean energy;
(2) Increasing energy efficiency through the manufacturing of energy-saving products, the construction of energy-efficient buildings, and the provision of servicesthat reduce end-use energy consumption; or
(3) Environmental management and the conservation and regulation of natural resources. “
Source: Advancing inclusion through clean energy jobs. Brookings Institute report, 2019.
In land use terms, infrastructure and utility, manufacturing and industrial, commercial
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Note: Concentration quotient (CQ) reports how much more likely a given occupation is to
be found in the given sector’s industries than across all national industries.
Source: Brookings analysis of Occupational Employment Statistics data
Source: Advancing inclusion through clean energy jobs. Brookings Institute report, 2019.
WHAT ARE “CLEAN ENERGY” JOBS?
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WHAT DO CLEAN ENERGY JOBS PAY?
Source: Advancing inclusion through clean energy jobs. Brookings Institute report, 2019.
$58,000
annual
$54,000
annual
$56,000
annual
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WHAT EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT IS REQUIRED?
Source: Advancing inclusion through clean energy jobs. Brookings Institute report, 2019.
BROOKINGS INSTITUTE REPORT: “ADVANCING INCLUSION THROUGH CLEAN ENERGY JOBS” (2019)
FINDINGS
1. The transition to the clean energy economy will primarily involve 320 unique occupations spread across three major industrial sectors: clean energy
production, energy efficiency, and environmental management. These occupations represent a range of workplace responsibilities, from jobs unique to the energy sector to support services found throughout the broader economy.
2. Workers in clean energy earn higher and more equitable wages when compared to all workers nationally. Mean hourly wages exceed national averages by 8 to 19 percent. Clean energy economy wages are also more equitable; workers at lower ends of the income spectrum can earn $5 to $10 more per hour than other jobs.
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BROOKINGS INSTITUTE REPORT: “ADVANCING INCLUSION THROUGH CLEAN ENERGY JOBS” (2019)
FINDINGS
3. Even when they have higher pay, many occupations within the clean energy economy tend to have lower educational requirements. This is especially
true within the clean energy production and energy efficiency sectors, which include sizable occupations like electricians, carpenters, and plumbers. Roughly 50 percent of workers attain no more than a high school diploma yet earn higher wages than similarly-educated peers in other industries.
4. Occupations within the clean energy production and energy efficiency sectors tend to require greater scientific knowledge and technical skills than the average American job. Conversely,
knowledge and skill requirements in environmental management occupations trend towards national averages.
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BROOKINGS INSTITUTE REPORT: “ADVANCING INCLUSION THROUGH CLEAN ENERGY JOBS” (2019)
FINDINGS
5. The clean energy economy workforce is older, dominated by male workers, and lacks racial diversity when compared to all occupations nationally. Fewer than 20 percent of workers in the
clean energy production and energy efficiency sectors are women, while black workers fill less than ten percent of these sector’s jobs.
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BUT NEW SKILLS ARE NEEDED
“Energy-related industries are typified by a need for skilled trades to help manufacture advanced products, execute large-scale construction projects, research and develop new technologies, and deliver other detailed STEM-related services.”
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TOOLS TO STRENGTHEN INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS AND WORKFORCE
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BRAINSTORMING TOOLS
LAND USE/ZONINGGoal Description Tool Questions/Comments
Ensure industrial uses in
the Special District
Require a certain FAR across
special district for specified Use
Groups
Special District text
and map
Limit office uses Limit uses to industrial ancillary
uses; and/or limit overall amount
within the Special District
Special District text
and map
Limit retail uses Limit size and location of retail
and/or food and beverage
establishments
Special District text
and map
Ensure space for true
“creative” uses
Floor area set-aside for artists,
musicians, filmmakers
Special District text
and map
Other ideas?
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Goal Description Questions/Comments
Create lease-based requirements for future
tenants that maximize local connection to jobs
Require new tenants to post jobs at the
Innovation lab
Set local hiring goals with monitoring and
enforcement plans
Can be tied to subsidies, which can be
“clawed back” if goals are not met.
Set and pursue local/MWBE sourcing goals IC to create local sourcing database and
promote it to all tenants, require “good faith
effort” to use the database for sourcing
Expand and grow the Innovation Lab and
establish regular reporting requirements
IC to create long term space commitment for
the Innovation Lab
Create incentives for attracting/supporting
‘green’ manufacturers
Could IC agree to offer below-market rents
to businesses that are part of
mitigating/adapting to climate change?
Other ideas?
BRAINSTORMING TOOLS
IC AGREEMENTS
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Goal Description Questions/Comments
Ensure long term affordable
manufacturing space in the Special
District
IC allows a mission-driven, non-profit industrial
partner to manage a percentage of the overall
campus for manufacturing or industrial users
Other ideas?
BRAINSTORMING TOOLS
IC AGREEMENTS
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Goal Description Questions/Comments
Establish a small technical
public high school at
Industry City
Partner with Dept Of Ed to establish a
technical high school modeled on the STEAM
Center at Brooklyn Navy Yard
Create job monitoring and
reporting agreement
Partner with EDC to create annual job
monitoring and reporting process
Other ideas?
BRAINSTORMING TOOLS
CITY PARTNERSHIPS
DISCUSSION
1. Which vision for Sunset Park’s waterfront do you prefer? Do you think is possible? Do you think is most likely?
2. Do you think there’s a real ‘industrial’ or ‘manufacturing’ future for Sunset Park’s waterfront? Should we fight for it? Why? Will future industrial or manufacturing uses need to mix with other uses? Which uses? How do you protect the industrial or manufacturing uses?
3. Do you think the rezoning as proposed would benefit or hurt Sunset Park’s small businesses on the commercial corridors? What about IBZ businesses?
4. What are your greatest concerns with the proposal? Are there tools that could address your concern?
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APPENDIX/ADDITIONAL SLIDES
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IBZ’S HAVE GROWN THOUSANDS OF JOBS WHOLESALE, CONSTRUCTION, MANUFACTURING JOBS SINCE 2010
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From “Employment in New York City’s Manufacturing Districts 2000-2014” NYC Department of City Planning
WHAT IS “MANUFACTURING” ANYWAY?
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Designation Definition Examples
Manufacturing
(Federal NAICS
code)
Mechanical, physical, or chemical transformation of
materials, substances, or components into new products
U.S. Government jobs
classification (NAICS code)
Advanced
Manufacturing
(manufacturing.gov)
Use of innovative technologies to create products. Can
include production activities that depend on information,
automation, computation, software, sensing, and
networking
Producing food, beverage,
textiles, apparel, wood products,
soap, glass, petrochemicals,
Construction
(Federal NAICS
code)
New buildings and structures, conversions, installation
(mechanical, electric), renovations.
Contract work for electric,
plumbing, carpentry, drywall,
window installation, etc
Innovation
Economy
Transformation, production and design; research and
development for art and design, film and TV, retail
products, fashion, food, and tech-adjacent industries
Furniture making, architectural
and engineering services,
advertising
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MANUFACTURING ACCORDING TO NYC’S ZONING RESOLUTION
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CASE STUDY: GREENPOINT-WILLIAMSBURG IBZ