Armory Report Coming in June

At a town hall forum in Kingsbridge Heights on Sunday, State Senator Gustavo Rivera said the Bronx borough president’s Kingsbridge Armory task force was in the final stages of completing its recommendations for redeveloping the massive building that has been vacant for nearly two decades. They will release the report in June, he said.

The task force, made up of a long list of influential Bronx stakeholders, has been meeting periodically since early last year. In the fall, New York University graduate students took on the redevelopment of the Armory as a capstone project and has been working with the task force ever since. A few weeks ago, the NYU team presented the task force with its final report, which Rivera said he still “digesting.” He said the task force will probably meet again and hash out all the particulars before the borough president’s office authorizes the final recommendations.

“The most important thing is that, whatever happens with the Armory, it should benefit the community,” Rivera

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