The Anti-Industrial Zone
August 26th, 2008
While we focused our latest story on community participation in city zoning policy, a story-plus-slideshow in the News today takes a gander at how rezonings are deconstructing the city’s industrial and manufacturing economy.
The News examines a recently released report from the Pratt Center for Community Development that details the administration’s overwhelming effort to rezone industrial spaces. According to the center, the city had 12,542 acres of developable manufacturing space pre-Bloomberg agenda. As a result of the 84 rezonings approved by the City Council, we now have fewer than 10,746 acres.
The effects: businesses are being pushed out, sometimes even to New Jersey, and these types of working class jobs are vacating the five boroughs.
So as residential condominiums take root where warehouses once were, the ire of community activists are not only aggravated, but laborers are left struggling to find employment close to home.
By Courtney Gross on August 26, 2008, 12:52 pmIn category: Gotham City
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