City tosses Sunset Park waterfront development plan overboard
Menchaca, EDC at odds over details of proposal
A $115 million plan to redevelop the Sunset Park waterfront was torpedoed after a dispute erupted between Councilmember Carlos Menchaca and the New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC) over the details of the project.
Menchaca charged that the EDC “walked away from the table” and scrapped the proposal to redevelop the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal in Sunset Park because the agency was unwilling yield to his demand to give the Sunset Park community a say in the planning process.
But EDC officials leveled a countercharge, saying that that Menchaca refused the agency’s plan to have the Sunset Park community board, Board Seven, serve as the local voice for the project. Instead, EDC officials told Crain’s New York Business, the councilmember pushed for the establishment of a development corporation, a panel that he would control, to oversee the terminal.