Cryptic agenda for Wednesday's Atlantic Yards Community Development Corp. meeting offers little chance for meaningful pre-meeting comment.

Ok, the typically oblique agenda (also at bottom) for the (purportedly advisory Atlantic Yards Community Development Corporation (AY CDC) meeting Wednesday at 3 pm--in person, and webcast--has been posted this morning.

That leaves little more than 24 hours for public comment--which requires clairvoyance regarding the cryptic agenda. The AY CDC is supposed to advise the parent Empire State Development (ESD), the state authority that oversees/shepherds the project.

(Info on attending the meeting in person--which requires an RSVP--and watching it online, as well as offering public comments, is here.)

Agenda items

Beyond approval of the minutes, the agenda includes an update on the B12/B13 project, aka 595 Dean Street (which has already opened).

The agenda also contains an update on platform construction, which the developer has said is likely to start in the second half of this year but otherwise has not provided any details.

Even more cryptic is a reference to "Pacific Park." Does that mean the new open space that's become available outside 595 Dean? Does that mean the future of the project? Does that mean new personnel overseeing the project at both ESD and developer Greenland USA?

I'd bet on a reference to the new open space, but who knows?

Preview observations

As I wrote, the pending issues include:

• the platform needed to support six towers over the MTA's Vanderbilt Yard; 
• the 876 (or 877) units of affordable housing due by May 2025, and ESD's seeming reluctance to enforce the associated fines for missing that deadline; 
• the expected argument by Greenland USA, which controls nearly all the rest of the project, for an extension of that deadline; 
• and changes at both Greenland and ESD, leaving new people as the face of the project.