By The Numbers
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Square foot park expansion along the shoreline of Barretto Point Park
This year-long process brought together residents, workers, elected officials, and City agencies to highlight the community’s priorities and shared vision for the future of Hunts Point through a series of surveys, focus groups, workshops, interviews, and open houses.
I think the most successful thing we've accomplished in the plan so far is engagement. We've been able to put all our minds together and understand that we're all in this together. There is no separate planning, there's joint planning, and when we come out of this, it will have been a collaborative joint effort that gets us to a different place.
This year-long process brought together residents, workers, elected officials, and City agencies to highlight the community’s priorities and shared vision for the future.
Learn MoreThe Working Group was the core guiding voice for Hunts Point Forward. It included local community leaders and residents who have been involved in Hunts Point for decades. They ensured that a broad range of participants took part in the planning process, facilitated open and transparent conversations with the community, and ensured that the resulting recommendations formed a cohesive strategy that will provide real solutions to area challenges, including:
In the past year, the City, elected officials, and local leaders, have accomplished a lot toward the fulfillment of “Hunts Point Forward.”
Hunts Point Forward Successes
Square foot park expansion along the shoreline of Barretto Point Park
To fully fund the Hunts Point Produce Market redevelopment
To protect the Food Distribution Center (FDC) from flooding
To pay for new electric vehicle technology
New affordable homes to be built through the closing of Phase 2 of The Peninsula
New youth-run farmstand to provide job training for local youth and fruits and vegetables to the residents
Intersections on Hunts Point Avenue that will be redesigned to be safer for pedestrians and bikers
kWh of new solar energy annually to power more than 300 homes through the installation by Krasdale Foods Inc.
Free air conditioners provided to seniors
Jobs fairs attended by over 140 local residents
Square foot park expansion along the shoreline of Barretto Point Park
To pay for new electric vehicle technology
kWh of new solar energy annually to power more than 300 homes through the installation by Krasdale Foods Inc.
To protect the Food Distribution Center (FDC) from flooding
New youth-run farmstand to provide job training for local youth and fruits and vegetables to the residents
Free air conditioners provided to seniors
To fully fund the Hunts Point Produce Market redevelopment
New affordable homes to be built through the closing of Phase 2 of The Peninsula
Intersections on Hunts Point Avenue that will be redesigned to be safer for pedestrians and bikers
Jobs fairs attended by over 140 local residents
Haydee Morales, Executive Director, Casita Maria Center for Arts & Education has decades of experience in community-based programming and management.
For questions or more information, please contact the Hunts Point Forward team.