UPROSE (who opposed Industry City) is touting this as a big win for Sunset Park, but when you look into the details, it's shocking how much scarce industrial land this is consuming while providing almost no work https://twitter.com/Gothamist/status/1350808053449433089

The facility will offer 200 permanent jobs on 73 acres of land, or 2.7 jobs per acre. For comparison, the privately owned industrial land to the south has 4,323 jobs in about 98 acres, or 44.1 jobs per acre – 16x as many! Data here: https://onthemap.ces.census.gov/ 

It's even worse compared to Industry City, which UPROSE fought hard against. IC currently has 8,000 jobs on 35 acres (229 jobs/acre). The developers wanted to add another 7,000, for a total of 15,000 – so add 200 jobs/acre for a total of 429 jobs/acre! https://citylimits.org/2020/09/24/opinion-stop-echoing-industry-citys-bogus-math-on-jobs/

I hope reporters put it into perspective for readers. If this is @UPROSE/ @cmenchaca's vision for development the Sunset Park waterfront, then their vision is of a waterfront nearly devoid of jobs. Literally 99.4% fewer jobs per acre than Industry City was offering!

Given how few jobs this site will have, this wind turbine hub seems like a horrible use of some of the best industrial land in NYC. We have whittled down our supply of industrial land in NYC with rezonings, we cannot afford to waste 73 acres of what's left on just 200 jobs

It may be that the true number of ongoing jobs at the site will be 1,200, not 200. But even if that’s the case, we’re still at less than half the job density of the private sites to the south and well over an order of magnitude fewer jobs per acre than Industry City https://twitter.com/shaygabriel/status/1351549740178153475