[Eidolon]

WOW!

25,000 new jobs from Amazon translates into ~100K more residents and a need for ~20,000 new units over a decade, give or take a couple of years. Sunnyside Yards and the Penn Station Towers just took a huge leap towards being built as population and business growth is on a track to surge! What will the effects be on other businesses in the tech sector? Massive growth is a pretty good bet, with 3 tech jobs being created in other companies for every one added by Amazon and even more in other industries such as private security, catering, education, healthcare etc. and even in traditional NYC industries such as financial and legal services, marketing etc.

I'd guess that more than half of these people getting these jobs will not be current NYC residents and since these people will need to live somewhere, this will spur large scale rezoning efforts and launch construction in LIC, Sunnyside and Greenpoint to the moon in order to prevent housing shortages and no, population losses due to gentrification will be more than replaced by people coming into the city.

As time goes on and the economy expands to accommodate Amazon and the boom it brings in with it, we will even see some of the more vision-like mega-projects such as the Red Hook towers and Seaport City begin to gather some momentum, perhaps even shovels in the dirt within the next 20 years

Amazon moving in might even make 2 WTC happen much sooner than expected!

Red Hook:











Could Sleepy Red Hook Really Be Transformed Into a Giant Mass of Skyscrapers?

AECOM’s vision is to remake Red Hook with subway service and residential skyscrapers on what is now City- and Port Authority-owned land. The public agencies would sell the land to private developers, who would put up a mix of approximately 30,000 to 50,000 market-rate and affordable units on the waterfront.

The 1 train would be extended with two new stops in Red Hook and a connection to the F and G trains at the 4th Avenue and 9th Street stop.

• AECOM estimates the project will cost $3.5 billion to implement.
• It would be bigger than Hudson Yards, which has 20,000 housing units.
• It would bring 6,250 to 11,250 new affordable housing units to the area.
• Port Authority is controlled by the states of New York and New Jersey.
• The idea of selling off Brooklyn’s ports has been proposed before.

Seaport City:





WATER WORLD! Seaport City is mayor’s post-Sandy vision

Mayor Bloomberg wants to build a new New Amsterdam in the East River to protect Lower Manhattan from future superstorms — so naturally, he's going Dutch.

City Hall has just selected Arcadis, an Amsterdam-based engineering firm, to study whether Hizzoner's so-called "Seaport City" is even doable.

In May, the mayor unveiled a plan to build a neighborhood on acres of levees stretching south from the Brooklyn Bridge to the Battery.

Now, Arcadis and other experts must determine if this unorthodox "Battery Park City East" is technically, financially and environmentally feasible.

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"If you look at what the Dutch have achieved, there's no reason we couldn't build something like this," said Irwin Redlener, director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia's Earth Institute.

In Arcadis, City Hall believes it has found the perfect partner to figure this all out.

The firm has tackled similar plans before, including for the Port Authority, San Francisco and the Dutch city of Rotterdam.

Arcadis also helped build new flood protections in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and, in 2009, Arcadis devised a sea wall that would seal off New York Harbor at the Verrazano Narrows — a proposal Mayor Bloomberg has dismissed.