Brooklyn Bridge Park operates under a mandate to be financially self-sustaining. This mandate was memorialized in the Park’s General Project Plan approved in 2005. While a small fraction of the required operations and maintenance funds for the Park are collected from permits and concessions, the majority of the funds come from a limited number of revenue-generating development sites within the project’s footprint.
The development program was determined after an in-depth analysis of potential locations. The analysis focused on finding uses that would generate sufficient revenue to support park operations, minimize the size of the required development footprint, and be compatible with the surrounding park and neighborhood uses. Development locations were chosen to take advantage of the existing urban context by concentrating development closest to existing park entrances and maintain the protected view corridor from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, and thus create vital, active urban junctions at each of the Park’s three main entrances.
The approved development program includes the sites and uses outlined below: