Industry City was the latest clash of competing visions for the city, following the collapsed Amazon deal in Queens last year. The Brooklyn project was intensely divisive.

As my colleague Emma G. Fitzsimmons reported, community activists in Sunset Park voiced concerns from the onset that rezoning would spur more gentrification and displacement in the surrounding neighborhoods. But others argued that the rezoning would ultimately be helpful to a city in the grip of an economic crisis.

The chief executive of Industry City, Andrew Kimball, told Ms. Fitzsimmons, “If a project like this can’t succeed, it concerns me very much about the future of New York City.”

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Source: New York Times

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