New report issued detailing the rise of Downtown Brooklyn
For the past decade, Brooklyn — Downtown Brooklyn in particular — has been a hot commodity. More than $10 billion in private investments has flowed steadily into the borough and now there is a written blueprint.
The Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, NYU Rudin Center and Appleseed Inc. unveiled a new report, Downtown Rising: How Brooklyn Became a Model for Urban Development, at a breakfast forum in Manhattan on Tuesday, outlining how Downtown Brooklyn became such a popular development location and offering ways to keep it that way.
“You have the Brooklyn Bridge Park on one end, Barclays Center on the other, and in that is a massive amount of energy and activity which is spreading all the way down to Sunset Park and Industry City to all the way north in Greenpoint,” said the forum’s moderator Mitchell C. Moss, Henry Hart Rice professor of urban policy and planning at New York University. “We believe Downtown Brooklyn’s success is reflected in the number of new start-ups, households and cultural activities that have reinforced the superb quality of life in the borough.”