Councilmember Restler on 200 Kent Avenue project

Thank you so much, Chair.

It's good to see you in the seat.

I just wanted to express gratitude to the development team at 200 Kent.

The developers and their representatives were really great partners through this process.

This is an existing building.

Many of you may know it.

We have a Trader Joe's there on the basement level of a five-story building on Kent Avenue that was zoned just for commercial use.

And this is really an area where we have lots of residential development, and allowing for residential development above the dynamic supermarket and existing commercial space is, I think, a very positive thing for our neighborhood.

There will be...

Still more commercial space, multiple stories of it.

So hopefully we can maintain and sustain the office space that's there and then build a mixture of market rate and affordable housing above.

I'm really pleased by this project.

The development team is working closely with my office on the bid formation effort that we have on the north side to help improve street cleanliness and quality of life across our commercial corridors and our park spaces and our open streets.

And I'm really grateful for their partnership in that endeavor.

So this is, I think, a very sensible project, and I'm really pleased to support it and hope my colleagues will do the same.

Thanks so much.

Thank you, Councilmember.