via Amanda Farinacci/ NY 1 With the Manhattan skyline as a backdrop, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Staten Island officials broke ground on Thursday what’s to be a nearly $200 million transformation project at the old Homeport. “We’re breathing new life into a once blighted and abandoned spot in our city,” Bloomberg said. The 36-acre site…
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Finally, it’s a go for Staten Island’s Homeport
via Irina Ivanova/Crain’s New York After decades of sporadic efforts, ground was finally broken Thursday for a $150 million redevelopment of the old Navy base near the ferry terminal. It is the first of three big projects—including a towering Ferris wheel that is underway. After more than two decades of aborted plans, and four years…
Tide turns as groundbreaking at Staten Island’s old home port ushers in $1B boom
via Jillian Jorgensen/ SILive.com STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Twenty years after the U.S. Navy left the Stapleton home port behind, redevelopment of the prime piece of waterfront has finally begun — and it’s just the beginning of $1 billion in private investment slated for the North Shore. “Now, at long last , we’re about to…
