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the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey would need to allow its 80-acre Red Hook Container Terminal to be used for the development. The agency has floated shutting down the terminal as part of its efforts to shed its non-core real estate assets, but has not yet embraced AECOM’s vision. A spokesperson for the agency said they were currently reviewing the proposal.
AECOM would likely also need the blessings of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and City Hall.
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That's an understatement. Any project of this magnitude, and I can't think of any off the top of my head (even Sunnyside isn't as ambitious) would need the "blessings" of the various agencies involved. Most importantly, the city would have to give its blessing, in the form of various rezonings. It wouldn't be an overnight, rubberstamped process. But no doubt the deBlasio administration is salivating at the prospect of all those housing units. Get city hall behind it, and hope the credit-mongering Cuomo doesn't come in and try to throw cold water on the idea.