Jung on Spark Kips Bay deconstruction and Willets Point development
Jung describes Spark Kips Bay as a life sciences and health tech hub with 95% material diversion from landfills, salvaging 76 tons of waste. He then covers Willets Point's transformation from a floodplain into a new neighborhood with 2,500 affordable homes, green roofs, new infrastructure, and the fully electric Etihad Stadium for NYCFC and the 2028 Olympics.
We see this future taking shape in projects like Spark Kips Bay, where we are transforming an entire New York City block into a state-of-the-art and first-of-its-kind education, job, innovation hub focused on life sciences and health tech.
Last year, we began deconstruction on the site, and we are on track to divert an unprecedented 95% of project materials from landfills.
So far, we have salvaged and diverted 76 tons of waste, repurposing hundreds of light fixtures, masonry block, wood paneling, bluestone pavers, historic relief sculptures, and iron gates.
And in Queens at Willits Point, we are pairing affordability and economic justice with sustainability, so housing and new businesses can take root.
Located within a floodplain, we have said goodbye to the Valley of Ashes, to the pollution, decay, and neglect that has defined this area for generations, and in its place, built a brand new neighborhood
with 2,500 new affordable houses and residential buildings seeking to achieve high standards of environmental sustainability, including green roofs.
We have built new infrastructure like sewers and stormwater drains, and we have raised new streets and buildings out of the floodplain to protect residents from future storms.
The first residents moved into their new affordable home.
Holmes is May, and soon the world's sport will come to the world's borough with the fully electric, privately financed Etihad Stadium scheduled to be ready to welcome NYCFC for the 2027
MLS season and open to the world for the 2028 Olympics.