In our current issue we wrote an editorial about the Revere Sugar Factory site that has been owned by Thor Equities since 2006. At times plans were floated for its use, including box stores and college dorms. Nothing materialized and it has remained basically unused since then.
Last week it seemed to us that the Haddad Film Truck Company had struck a deal to park their trucks there. We believe there are rules regarding parking lots that forbid them to be unpaved. The Thor Equities site was unpaved yet the trucks were still parking there.
Today we noticed a sign advertising commercial parking, and we see that paving the 400,000 square foot property is in process. OneStopLIC is the operator of the lot. We checked them out online. They are property managers specializing in renting out large spaces to commercial vehicles. They already have a deal with Phoenix Beverages, operators of Red Hook Containerport, LLC, and are responsible for the garbage trucks and all manner of other vehicles now occupying much of the Containerport.
They describe their activities in the containerport as:
The Red Hook Container Terminal located in Brooklyn, New York. Sitting on 65.6 acres, it handles bulk & break bulk cargos in addition to containers. This facility can accommodate all your operational needs including:six active container cranes, 2,080 feet of berthing space, 3,140 feet of break bulk space, two major bulk-handling yards, and approximately 186,000 square feet of divisible warehouse space.
This is a breaking story….
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George,
I’m sorry , this is NOT a developing story…….
Haddads is NOT the only tenant…
There have been construction trucks
buses
dump trucks
cement trucks
etc etc…
I don’t get it, it doesn’t bother you that Haddads has been parking at the end of Wolcott for almost 10 years??
Who are the people complaining about this? I honestly feel like you are making a story out of nothing…
All heavy duty diesel trucks undergo emissions testing just like your car…The amount of traffic in and out of that lot is negligible compared to the hundreds of diesel powered school buses that come and go from the neighborhood sometimes twice a day, speeding down the block, double parking etc..
Pretty soon when all of the industry is pushed from red hook by the deep coffered developers and uber wealthy newly anchored homeowners very few of us will be able to live here.. This is RED HOOK, not Williamsburg (not yet at least)…….
Maybe Joe Sitt should have built that BJ’s or whatever big box nightmare he wanted there, at least you would have something valid to write about..
Well, when our waterfront is only accessible by the people living in the glass towers, hotels and boutiques that are inevitably going to be built I will look forward to reading what you think..
Just my humble opinion
Just saw this now – you are right. Nobody seems to care. I thought that since there was such a hue and cry when the BASIS school went ahead – lots of words about how a school was better than a smoky bus parking lot, people might think that a lot on such a much larger scale might be of concern to those same people. But I haven’t heard a thing. Thanks for the comment! I don’t disagree, although just as I wrote during the BASIS controversy, industrial or luxury should not be the only choices. I myself would love to see about 5 Brooklyn Crabs occupying some of that space.
George