The New York City Economic Development Corporation (“NYCEDC”) requests expressions of interest from port developers, port operators, and maritime industrial users with respect to the port and marine terminal facilities at the Brooklyn Marine Terminal (“BMT”) located in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The responses will further inform the refinement of the vision for the Brooklyn Marine Terminal (“BMT Vision Plan” or “Vision Plan”), which is discussed in more detail below, as the proposed BMT port and marine terminal and mixed-use project moves forward through environmental review and eventually to one or more Requests for Proposals (“RFP”) for developers, port operators and maritime industrial users of the BMT port and marine terminal facility. Although the BMT port is envisioned to include the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal with the container and flex maritime terminals as a single commercial port area, the focus of this Request for Expressions of Interest (“RFEI”) is to solicit ideas for how BMT could be optimized for maritime industrial uses. NYCEDC seeks proposals from a wide range of potential maritime port developers, port operators and maritime industrial users. More specifically, the purpose of this RFEI is to: • Identify port operators/developers who would be interested in responding to one or more future RFPs for the operation and development of the BMT port and cruise terminal facilities together as a single commercial port area both consulting the proposed BMT Vision Plan and also allowing for alternate configurations to the footprint as proposed in the Vision Plan. • Understand what refinements to the BMT Vision Plan (if any) could be made to increase interest in the future RFPs, including small or large-scale changes to the physical layout, size, configuration, or other existing constraints. • Understand the potential market advantages or disadvantages of linking the BMT port facility to the Hunts Point Food Distribution Center or other existing or future coastal facilities via the water through a Blue Highway network and the importance of having unified operations at these facilities. • Solicit feedback from the business community regarding the potential to significantly increase the type and/or level of maritime industrial activity at the BMT port facility and what infrastructure investments or other improvements would be most important in achieving this increase.
