Greenland exec: COVID shutdowns hit supply chain for 800K sf of construction (surely, B4, aka Brooklyn Crossing). Other companies added off-site storage before pandemic.

An interesting Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park detail emerged in a 2/23/22 Bisnow article, Developers, Contractors Investing In Off-Site Construction Storage To Get Ahead Of Supply Chain Issues, describing challenges posed by the COVID-19 crisis, during which some developers decided to avoid uncertainty around the delivery of materials by eschewing just-in-time delivery:

Scott Solish, executive vice president at Greenland USA, said the coronavirus pandemic had impacted 800K SF of construction on Pacific Park in Brooklyn that the developer started working on in 2018 and was ready to start building just before the pandemic hit. But shutdowns and the immediate impact on the supply chain had immediate consequences.

“You have to regroup, look and see where all your components are coming from, where are your windows coming from, your HVAC, every piece of material,” Solish said. “Then you have to try and find out: is it coming; how fast can it get here; will the bank let you pay for it upfront; can it get through the port; where are you going to put it.”

The building is unmentioned, but it's likely B4, 18 Sixth Ave., now dubbed Brooklyn Crossing, the largest tower built so far, with a maximum square footage of 824,000 square feet. Below-grade construction work was visible in September 2019, but not the "components" that Solish cited.

Lean construction unwise, in retrospect

More from the article:

Greenland — which hadn’t factored a supply chain crisis into its construction planning — was left competing for storage space once its materials arrived. But developers like Thorobird started adding off-site storage into their construction process and budget even before the pandemic. 

There's an implicit criticism there, that companies like Greenland, which work(ed) lean, whether for expected cost and/or efficiency savings, suffered, while others

That said, after-hours work, among other things, has allowed Greenland Forest City Partners, in partnership with The Brodsky Organization, to not stray too far from a schedule, announced in October 2018, to complete the building in late 2021.