| Obstacles
to Achieving Growth
Downtown Brooklyn has the following issues to overcome:
- Zoning and lack of adequate development
sites limit opportunities for growth
- Downtown core is isolated from surrounding
strong residential communities
- Poor streetscape experience limits desirability as business and residential destination
- Downtown has not tapped into vast cultural
and educational resources
Guiding Principles
to Achieve Downtown Brooklyn's Potential
The Downtown Brooklyn Plans guiding principles include
ensuring a comprehensive planning process, partnering
with local stakeholders, understanding the areas strengths
and weaknesses, focusing on strategic problem-solving
and making catalytic public investments.
Progress to Present
To date, the city has dedicated significant resources
to the pre-development planning phase. Community outreach
is already well under way. In addition, an inter-agency
task force meets regularly to carefully craft this plan
and chart its progress so that the public approval process
will proceed expeditiously and new development can start
by 2005.
The Vision
With enactment of the plan, the future of Downtown Brooklyn
promises to be bright:
- The economic center of what would be
equal to America's 4th largest city
- Strong and diverse commercial & retail
markets
- Residential communities that are integrated
in Downtown
- Expanding premier cultural and educational
destinations
- A vibrant public environment served
by enhanced transit network
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