Jung on coastal resiliency and Brooklyn Army Terminal/Batworks hub

Over the past two years, we have also advanced coastal resiliency projects to protect waterfront communities, residents, workers, and businesses, including the Lower Manhattan Coastal Resilience Project, the Eastside Coastal Resiliency Project, among countless others throughout the city.

At EDC, we see the Green Economy Action Plan as both a climate strategy and an economic blueprint for equitable growth.

It is a framework for ensuring that the technologies, companies, and workers driving the clean energy transition can thrive in the decades to come.

We want to ensure that the next great climate change

technologies are not only simply being invented in New York City, but that they are built, tested, deployed, and scaled here.

And that work is being shaped at places like the Brooklyn Army Terminal, where we are building a world-class climate innovation hub.

Climate challenges are not solved by one sector alone.

They require collaboration between government, businesses, workers, and communities.

At Brooklyn Army Terminal, we are embarking on a new historic chapter, supporting the hundreds of businesses, industrial manufacturers, and thousands of employees who currently call it home,

and anchoring it with a growing ecosystem for new climate technologists and entrepreneurs working on solutions to combat climate change.

Batworks will also be home to the largest green workforce training facility in New York City.

Connecting New Yorkers, including residents in the Sunset Park community, to real economic opportunity while supporting green industrial growth.

This former military campus is now on the front lines of the next fight of our lives, leading the line on climate innovation.

Earlier this May, we launched the Batworks Temporary Space, creating an on-the-ground presence today.

We are bringing the Sunset Park community and industry together to connect, learn, and help shape Batworks and shape Batworks activities ahead of the permanent hub's completion in 2028,

and accelerating the city's $100 million investment to ensure its benefits and jobs reach more New Yorkers and more communities.

Small businesses and startups are the future of the green economy.

And at Batworks, we are supporting their growth through programs like Pilots at Bat and our Offshore Wind Innovation Hub programming.