Climate change is accelerating, and in New York City, officials are investing heavily in solutions they hope will meet the urgency of the moment. A $100 million initiative at the Brooklyn Army Terminal aims to transform the historic site into a hub for climate innovation, workforce development, and community engagement.<\/p>\n
Once a military supply base, the waterfront complex in Sunset Park is being reimagined as \u201cBATWorks,\u201d a center where climate tech companies can test, build, and scale their ideas. The project is led by the New York City Economic Development Corporation in partnership with the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator and the Cambridge Innovation Center.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s never been more important. It\u2019s urgent,\u201d said Nse Esema, Senior Vice President of the Green Economy team at NYCEDC. \u201cWe\u2019re able to begin really deeply engaging with community, deeply engaging with innovators who we believe are building the climate solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n
Inside the sprawling campus, developers envision a space where startups can pilot new technologies in a dense, urban environment – an opportunity that\u2019s often difficult to replicate elsewhere.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s a program that allows multiple innovators each year the opportunity to test and deploy their technology on this campus, which is an incredible, dense urban environment opportunity for a startup to validate their technology,\u201d said Alex Mitchell, Senior Vice President of BATWorks with the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator.<\/p>\n
City officials say the project is about more than just innovation, it\u2019s also about economic impact. The initiative is expected to create roughly 600 jobs, support emerging companies, and generate an estimated $2.6 billion in revenue for the city.<\/p>\n
\u201cSuccess for this project is really inclusive,\u201d Mitchell said. \u201cEconomic growth, including really spurring both the development of green jobs in the community and scaling climate solutions that are so desperately needed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Leaders also emphasize the importance of education and early exposure. At the Brooklyn Army Terminal, programs are already being designed to connect young people with hands-on learning opportunities in sustainability and clean technology.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe hope BATWORKS can be a place we\u2019re young people can be inspired to become innovators – a place that will expose young people to the different types of climate solutions that they can be a part of,\u201d Esema said.<\/p>\n
BATWorks is expected to open its permanent facility in 2028. In the meantime, city officials plan to host an open house next week in Sunset Park, offering the public a first look at the future of climate innovation on Brooklyn\u2019s waterfront.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Climate change is accelerating, and in New York City, officials are investing heavily in solutions they hope will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-197196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}