Thomas-Henry asks about green collar training facilities status in each borough
Thomas-Henry asks how many of the five planned green collar training facilities (one per borough) are currently open. Jung provides status: Brooklyn Batworks (30,000 sq ft, late 2028), Bronx Fordham Green Job Center (12,000 sq ft, end of year), Manhattan Solar One (6,500 sq ft, already open), Queens Queensborough Community College (timeline TBD), Staten Island College of Staten Island (timeline TBD).
Green collar workforce training facilities.
The plan said that there will be five, one in each borough.
How many of those are currently open?
I'm happy to give an overview of those facilities, Councilmember.
The first one is in Brooklyn.
The largest workforce development training facility across the five boroughs will be at Batworks.
That's going to be 30,000 square feet.
We're going to be opening that in late 2028.
In the Bronx, we're happy to invest $3 million into Fordham's Bronx Green Job Center.
That's going to be 12,000 square feet and opened by the end of the year.
In Manhattan, the Solon One Environmental Education Center in Midtown East, that's 6,500 square feet, that is already open.
And then, like I mentioned before, we collectively have made a $10 million investment into various CUNY campuses for green workforce development facilities, which includes one in Queens at Queensborough Community College for an energy education center house,
and one in Staten Island at the College of Staten Island for a sustainable business.
Finance and Entrepreneurship Center.
We're actively working with CUNY's capital team in particular to understand the
timelines for when they will be open and happy to get you that information once it's clear.