Lower Grand Concourse Brownfield Opportunity Area (BOA) Steering Committee Meeting Wednesday, November 19, 2014, 10:30am SoBRO Center 555 Bergen Avenue, Third Floor Bronx, New York 10454 Administered & Funded by: Consultants: Executed by:
Agenda Welcome • Introduction to the SoBRO BOA Team • Introduction to SoBRO • Brief Review of the Lower Grand Concourse BOA Scope Community Engagement Update o • Introduction of Steering Committee Members and Affiliations Final Review of the Waterfront Study Petr Stand, Principal, Magnusson Architecture and Planning Overview of Study, w/ resiliency focus AKRF Presentation – Market, Feasibility, Financing Christian Michel, Technical Director, AKRF Discussion 1
SoBRO BOA Team Jamila Diaz, Assistant Vice President Michael C. Brady , Director of Neil W. Pariser, is a Senior of Business Services at SoBRO, has over six years Special Projects, Strategic Initiatives & Special Projects Consultant with SoBRO. of experience managing the organization’s Governmental Relations at SoBRO. Prior to Prior to his retirement from SoBRO, Mr. business assistance and commercial joining SoBRO in 2013, Mr. Brady served as Pariser served as Senior Vice President of revitalization services, including the Executive Vice President of Development of the South Bronx Overall Economic Entrepreneurial Assistance Program, Industrial the Long Island LGBT Services Network Development Corporation (SoBRO). Business Zone (IBZ) Program for all five Bronx where he expanded the organizational During his 30 years of service at SoBRO, IBZs, and merchant organizing. In addition, Ms. budget by 45% in two years by diversifying Mr. Pariser directed the planning, Diaz oversees manufacturer real estate the agency’s development portfolio. In acquisition, financing and construction of placements, and has successfully secured over 1 2007, Mr. Brady served as Managing Partner over 30,000 square feet of retail space million sqft of industrial space for Bronx based for Brady & Company, a governmental and 120,000 square feet of industrial businesses. relations, development, and strategy firm space; oversaw the financing and based in New York where he focused on land development of 500 units of affordable Ms. Diaz is a graduate of New York City’s use, and policy maker education for the housing in the South Bronx; and prestigious Coro Leadership Program and EPA’s Brownfield Remediation Program. supervised the planning, financing and specializes in Industrial Business Zone land use implementation of ten commercial and development. Mr. Brady serves as an active member of revitalization projects. Mr. Pariser is the Community Board 1, a member of the founder of the Port Morris Local Ms. Diaz holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in NYCEDC’s Industrial Relation’s Council, Development Corporation, a member of Political Science with minors in Sociology and Chairman of the Legacy Fund for Catholic board of CREDIT, Inc., SoBRO’s in -house Economics from John Jay College of Criminal Education, Founder and Secretary of the CDFI, and Vice Chair of the New York City Justice, and holds a Certificate in Business Mott Haven Merchants Association. Brownfield Partnership. Management from Fairfield University. Mr. Brady holds a Bachelor of Arts degree Mr. Pariser holds a Bachelor of Arts from Manhattan College, and a Master of degree from New York University and a Public Administration from New York Master of Urban Planning and Public University, where he serves as a Senior Clark Administration, also from New York Fellow. Additionally, he holds certifications University. from Harvard University and Columbia University. 2
About SoBRO Our Shared Mission The mission of the South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation (SoBRO) is to enhance the quality of life in the South Bronx by strengthening businesses and creating innovative economic, housing, educational and career development programs for youth and adults. 3
SoBRO by the numbers… • SoBRO adds over $700 million dollars SoBRO's Real Estate annually to the economic vitality of Division the Bronx boasts 19 SoBRO owned / • SoBRO impacts the lives of more managed buildings, than 200,000 Bronxites annually manages 5 properties owned by the City of New • SoBRO manages all five (5) Industrial York, and a public plaza. Business Zones (IBZ) in the Bronx – Port Morris, Hunts Point, Zerega, Bathgate, East Tremont • SoBRO administers five (5) City and State Brownfield sites. • SoBRO currently has 15 development projects in the pipeline that will bring 700 units of affordable housing 4
SoBRO Mission Snapshots SoBRO created NYC’s first business SoBRO's Youth Services Division incubator 12 years ago: has impacted over 40,000 Bronx youth since its The Venture Center inception in 1996. SoBRO Youth Services Division provides young people, ages 3- 24, with a safe space, to learn, develop, and grow. SoBRO’s The Venture Center currently houses 40 after-school programs are offered at ten (10) elementary, start up businesses with plans for expansion. middle, and high schools in the Bronx. SoBRO Center-based programs for out-of-school youth SoBRO leads the Bronx in CDFI lending, combine academic skills and career training with leadership MBE certifications, and positioning for development activities while exposing participants to new financing and procuring federal contracts ideas, culture, and entrepreneurial skills. for Bronx-based businesses. 5
Lower Grand Concourse Brownfield Opportunity Area (BOA) About SoBRO Consultants For nearly three decades, AKRF offers creative environmental, Magnusson Architecture and planning, and engineering solutions Planning (MAP) has pioneered for public and private clients. outstanding building design and With services across a range of urban revitalization projects as the technical specialties, AKRF provides a foundation for vibrant and single-point resource for the most sustainable communities. MAP’s complex, controversial, and time- top priority is to assist non-profit sensitive projects. groups, municipalities, and developers to reshape AKRF’s scientists , planners, neighborhoods to improve their engineers, and technical specialists residents’ quality of life. Decades have worked side by side for decades after the firm was founded in 1986, to help hundreds of clients quickly MAP continues to push the uncover and solve critical issues. The envelope for urban housing and firm identifies potential challenges mixed-use design and invent new early on, ensuring that their projects ways of planning urban are completed as smoothly and cost- neighborhoods. effectively as possible. 6
BOA Overview to Date Phase 1 Phase 2 Consultant: MAP Consultant: AKRF Visioning Study – maximum development to the right Market and Feasibility Study of zoning – Real Estate Development Feasibility – Zoning, bulk, and massing studies – Economic and Market Analysis – Waterfront access and open space – Transportation Infrastructure – Climate Resiliency – Marketing to the area Product: Phase 1 Study Report Product: Phase 2 Study Report Complete / Release: November 2014 Complete / Release: In progress 7
Lower Grand Concourse BOA Footprint 8
Lower Grand Concourse BOA Harlem River Waterfront Phase 1 - Vision Petr Stand, Principal Magnusson Architecture and Planning
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