New York City Mayor Eric Adams and the Trust for Governors Island announced yesterday the winning consortium of institutions led by Stony Brook University that will develop a first-of-its-kind $700 million urban climate campus on Governors Island, a 172-acre former military installation–turned-recreational and cultural hub just off the southern tip of Manhattan in Upper New York Harbor. Focused on climate research, education, solutions development, public programming, and green jobs training, the Stony Brook-anchored New York Climate Exchange concept was selected over finalist proposals from Northeastern University and CUNY and The New School.
Joining Stony Brook, a public research university on Long Island that serves as a flagship institution of the State University of New York system, is a sizable list of core partnering organizations on the Climate Exchange team (IBM, the Georgia Institute of Technology, Pratt University, Pace University, and the University of Washington to name just a few) and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM). The firm is designer of the 400,000-square-foot campus that, as envisioned by Trust for Governors Island president and CEO Clare Newman in a statement, will function as “a place where ideas come to life and hopeful solutions to the climate crisis become reality.”
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