Weekly Digest #13: Something Brewing This Week?
A last-minute announcement of an Atlantic Yards Community Development Corporation meeting.
This digest offers a way for people to keep up with my Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park Report blog, as well as my other coverage in this newsletter.
A vacation cut into my typical pattern of coverage, but here’s a quick catch-up.
Just two days ago, we learned of a meeting this Wednesday of the purportedly advisory Atlantic Yards Community Development Corporation (AY CDC).
Will the AY CDC be asked to endorse some pending change in the project? Is there something else that the parent Empire State Development (ESD), the state authority that oversees/shepherds the project, wishes to disclose or announce?
The timing is suspect, given the two-month gap between this and the previous meeting. The AY CDC is supposed to meet quarterly, but has not kept that schedule, so getting ahead of schedule seems irregular.
An agenda, which may surface tomorrow, would offer more clues.
From: Learning from Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park (Substack)
March 4: My Free Atlantic Yards Tour: May 3
Mark your calendars: my annual free tour of Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park, will be on Friday May 3 at 6 pm, part of the annual Jane’s Walk weekend of free tours, honoring the urbanist and author Jane Jacobs, under the auspices of the Municipal Art Society.
It should last 90 minutes to 2 hours. Save the above link for information—not yet available—about required registration (and meeting place), which should go live in April.
From: Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park Report
March 13: From the latest Construction Update: nothing's happening, so delayed info delivery isn’t crucial.
March 14: Curbed’s account of Downtown Brooklyn luxury living ignores failure to require affordability in upzoning. Broker Serhant swivels from promoting "park" (at 550 Vanderbilt, in Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park) to the highly amenitize, in-building lifestyle available in Downtown Brooklyn towers.
March 15: As New York State legislature faces April 1 budget deadline, approval of a successor to 421-a tax break could nudge the future of Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park.
March 16: Is something brewing? Atlantic Yards Community Development Corp. meeting set for Wednesday, two months after previous one. No agenda yet.