Downtown Brooklyn Plan, Regional Plan Association, NYC Planning for Downtown Brooklyn as a key initiative within the Regional Plan Association Third Regional Plan for the New York Metropolitan Area Regional Plan due to its potential as a successful urban center. While this CBD with more than a quarter million workers and visitors, serving a population of 2.3 million Brooklyn residents has all the ingredients that a strong downtown needs, its image and assets are fragmented so that the whole is less than the sum of its parts. Project goals:
- Strengthen Downtown’s overall civic identity through improvement of the public realm—transportation gateways, street character, linkages, vistas;
- Identify development opportunities for vacant and soft sites, and older office buildings;
- Improve links between education, cultural, commercial and transportation assets;
- Propose public/private strategies to foster long-term economic development.
The planning process was a partnership between region-wide civic organization and local leadership to engage key stakeholders in the process. Project responsibilities:
- Conceive and manage overall planning process, schedule, milestones; oversee project finances; coordinate project with key stakeholders.
- Lead a series of public workshops, make public presentations, represent the project to the press, garner public and financial support for the effort, and initiate academic programs.
- Principal author of project publications and graphicwide leadership.
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