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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


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


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


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


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


Vacant

Parking


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




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


Vacant

Parking


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


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




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

17

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


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


6

Neig

hborh

ood

Reta

il/Serv

ice

/O

ffic

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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/

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


WHAT ARE “CLEAN ENERGY” JOBS?

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WHAT DO CLEAN ENERGY JOBS PAY?


$58,000

annual

$54,000

annual

$56,000

annual

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WHAT EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT IS REQUIRED?


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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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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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


and map

Limit retail uses Limit size and location of retail

and/or food and beverage

establishments


and map

Ensure space for true

“creative” uses

Floor area set-aside for artists,

musicians, filmmakers


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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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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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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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

MANUFACTURING ACCORDING TO NYC’S ZONING RESOLUTION

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CASE STUDY: GREENPOINT-WILLIAMSBURG IBZ