A campus project entirely dedicated to ecology will see the light of day under the leadership of the mayor, Eric Adams. An ambitious project that will train students and researchers to seek solutions to solve the climate crisis.
It is a very ambitious project, estimated at 700 million dollars, announced by the mayor of New York Eric Adams: the construction of a 70-hectare campus dedicated to environmental research. The construction site should start in 2025 and end in 2028 on Governor’s Island, a small island in the south of Manhattan, with a breathtaking view of the skyscrapers and in front of the Statue of Liberty. According to New York Postit has the shape of an icy cone.
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Historically, it served as an outpost for Dutch merchants, then as a fort for the American army during the Revolution against the British kingdom, and also as a prison for Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. Today it’s a park…with the longest slide in New York and a few hammocks. But when the US government transferred its management to the city of New York in 2003, the town hall did not know what to do with it, because it does not have the right to install commercial buildings there. It was then that Eric Adams, the mayor elected in 2021, and his team formalized an idea that had been in the air for a few years.
A model campus in terms of ecology
This campus will be a “living laboratory”in the words of Eric Adams, who also calls it the “New York Climate Exchange“, in reference to the New York Stock Exchange, the stock exchange, which is located nearby. The town hall also describes the campus as a global research center for innovative solutions to the climate crisis, “the greatest threat of our time”, says an official source. The campus will also be used to train for trades “green”.
More than 2,000 jobs are promised, 600 students and 250 researchers will frequent the place each year. The project echoes Eric Adams’ ambitions in terms of ecology: he wants the whole city to compost by the end of 2024 and install solar panels on municipal buildings by 2035, for example. Governor’s Island is a car-free island and should remain so. It is a ferry that allows you to get there: its frequency will increase to one trip every 15 minutes, with hybrid boats to preserve the environment of course.
The campus will logically accommodate classrooms, laboratories, exhibition halls, greenhouses, as well as student housing, and historic buildings will be rehabilitated. Everything will run on electricity, produced on site, the recovery of rainwater will supply the site with non-potable water. The project, estimated at 700 million dollars, is partly financed by municipal funds, which already exist, but also by two billionaire foundations, including that of Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York. The taxpayer will have nothing to pay, promises the town hall.
2023-04-26 07:00:00
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