Viva Downtown Brooklyn!
De Blasio announces funding for 'Brooklyn Strand,' new parks, street overhauls
Bring on the cash and let’s get this party started!
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a package of investments for Downtown Brooklyn Wednesday to stimulate neighborhood economic development — with plans to remake “Brooklyn Strand,” which is 21 acres of underused green space from Borough Hall to Brooklyn Bridge Park, into a spiffy linear park, open ground floors to retail uses in 1.4 million square feet of city-owned buildings and make key streets less dangerous for drivers and pedestrians.
Also, the city will invest in three new parks, create a consortium of 11 neighborhood colleges to prep students for Brooklyn Tech Triangle jobs and form or expand a Business Improvement District for the Cultural District anchored by the Brooklyn Academy of Music.