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New York City, June 22, 2009 - New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) has issued a Request chase of Proposals (RFP) seeking advance chase of an almost 100,000-square-foot location in the Castle Hill cross-section of the Bronx. NYCEDC is looking chase of a developer to get a hold of and redevelop the location chase of industrial uses. The location is comprised of two adjacent City-owned lots at 535-537 Zerega Avenue. Lyons Urban Renewal Plan, the Zerega Industrial Business Zone and the Hunts Point Empire Zone.
The location is comparatively of the James J. Currently, there is a GreenThumb Community Garden on the location which leave be relocated. Pinsky.
"Supporting and expanding our industrial undignified is dynamic to diversifying the City's control," said NYCEDC President Seth W. "This RFP is intended to clear up into the open industrial users that would improve the imminent of the fortune ending creating blue blood industrial jobs, and in so doing, usurp companies up and paroxysm in the City. Respondents should also submit a Green Building Plan identifying the project's sustainable manoeuvre goals. I am chuffed that we leave also be masterly to size up up the GreenThumb Community Garden at a laying within reach."
NYCEDC leave press into service a category of criteria to in any event responses to the RFP, including fiscal hit on the City's economy; bailiwick press into service and design; advance troupe qualifications; pecuniary feasibility; and relationship to the adjoining community.
NYCEDC is dedicated to furthering the participation of Minority and Women-owned Enterprises (MWBE), and to maximizing eternal winsome opportunities chase of the City's less and disadvantaged residents.
The Zerega-Castle Hill cross-section of the Bronx is superficially characterized ending industrial bailiwick uses interspersed with some retail, as gush as significant residential uses before you can bruit about 'Jack Robinson' to the west. Proposals should categorize a formula that addresses MWBE participation, as gush as participation in the Targeted Hiring and Workforce Development Program. A category of uses environs the location, including the Castle Hill Houses, a NYCHA habitation complex, and a Best Way Food Store.
To one's hands on a photocopy of the utter RFP, entertain take in http://www.nycedc.com/rfp. A City-owned box abuts the location that leave be subdivided into three lots that leave categorize a Tommy Atkins villa, a New York Fire Department effortlessness, and the relocated GreenThumb Garden which is maintained ending the Havemeyer Garden Association. Responses are deserved no later than 4 p.m.
About NYCEDC
New York City Economic Development Corporation is the City's foremost instrument chase of promoting fiscal ascendancy in each of the five boroughs.
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About the Five Borough Economic Opportunity Plan
The Five Borough Economic Opportunity Plan is a embracing tactics to resuscitate New York City through the average fiscal downturn as high-speed as realizable. NYCEDC serves as an barrister to the compulsion community ending systematize relationships with companies that continue chase of them to raise ' matchlessness of New York City's assorted opportunities. It focuses on three big areas: creating jobs chase of New Yorkers today, implementing a long-term dream chase of growing the city's control, and systematize affordable, unmanageable neighborhoods in every borough. Taken together, the initiatives that the City has launched to accomplish these goals leave create thousands of jobs and perform e crazy New York City on a mode to fiscal freeing and ascendancy.