Pacific Park Conservancy, in report on 2024, ramps up its spending (and there was likely more in 2025). Will fixing the dog run be on the table?

According to the latest Form 990 return (here, and bottom) to the IRS, the Pacific Park Conservancy, which manages the project's publicly accessible open space, increased its revenue slightly and its spending significantly in calendar year 2024.

Presumably, the numbers for 2025 will be as robust.

It raised $1,024,034 in 2023 and $1,115,763 in 2024, in assessments from project buildings. However, while it reported $657,789 in 2023 expenses, in 2024 it spent a more robust $1,091,854. The latter included:

• Landscaping: $237,350
• Security: $178,413
• Cleaning: $90,727
• Pest control: $13,200
• Repair and maintenance: $32,863
• Utilities: $132,037
• Supplies & equipment: $18,224
• Irrigation: $12,334

Added to that $715,148 total was $351,650 in insurance.

In 2023, by contrast, it spent far less on property expenses, including $65,840 on landscaping and $31,384 on cleaning. 

Ramping up?

As I wrote last April, to improve oversight and maintenance, the Conservancy hired Streetplus, a Brooklyn-based company that works at Union Square Park, Madison Square Park, and other locations. (I'm not sure if that hiring is reflected in the 2024 spending report.)

They replaced turf damaged by dog urine, which remains a significant issue. 

Another issue: noise from the dog run, which has led to a truncation of hours, leading to complaints from dog owners. Mitigation likely would require spending on sound-absorbing fences and trees--another cost to the conservancy.

I'll note that the metal plaques affixed to entrance pillars still bear a stated phone number, 347-292-6479, which doesn't work and was supposed to be replaced by a new plaque with a new working phone number, 646-930-4852. 

It still hasn't been replaced. The Conservancy's email is  conservancy@pacificparkbrooklyn.nyc.

List shows board vacancies

The mashup below compares the Conservancy board over three years, from 2022 to 2024. (The Conservancy has no web site, so we don't know how much as changed since that 2024 report, which was filed Nov. 14, 2025.)

Despite superficial differences, the lists are somewhat close, since only nine active directors were described the first two years, with seven additional directors and officers oddly listed in 2022 as "former."

For 2024, there were a couple of changes. Notably, two employees of Greenland USA, Renduo Cheng and Jen Kuang, exited the board, as Greenland faced foreclosure of most of its Atlantic Yards holdings and was preparing to no longer be master developer.

Joining the board was David Viana, an Assistant VP of Community Relations at Empire State Development. ESD has two appointments. Oddly enough, the two original appointees of ESD, Alyson Beha and Suma Mandel, remained on the board.

Also, for some reason, Glinda Andrews, former Chair of the Parks and Recreation Committee of Brooklyn CB 8, is listed as a member. She's no longer on CB 8. While she was Chair of CB 8's Parks and Recreation Committee as of early 2024, was not as of November 2024, so well before the filing deadline.

Presumably the new joint venture named as the Atlantic Yards permitted developer, involving Cirrus Workforce Housing and LCOR, will have some appointments. 

For several years, until all eight acres of open space are completed, the Sponsor can appoint seven members, while the Owners Association can appoint just one director. After the project is completed, the Association appoints up to eight directors.

That said, the five people below represent the owners of project buildings and condos as much as the Sponsor, no matter who appoints them:

• Ashley Cotton, a former executive at original developer Forest City Ratner and a Principal at MAG Partners, founded by former Forest City CEO MaryAnne Gilmartin. She lives at the 550 Vanderbilt (B11) condo building
• Josie Mok, former Forest City executive and now Chief Financial Officer, G&S Investors. She lives at 550 Vanderbilt
• Scott Solish, former Greenland USA executive, now at The Brodsky Organization, which built B15 and partnered with Greenland on B4
• Rick Mason, another executive at Brodsky
• Amir Stein, an executive at TF Cornerstone, which built B12/B13

Who's missing?

Note that, outside of the dubious mention of Andrews, there are no longer representatives of the community boards, nor the Parks Department. That seems a lapse, which detracts from accountability.

I wrote in 2019 that Community Board 2 hadn't bothered, because, according to the District Manager, "no open space had been constructed in Community District 2 and none would be for the foreseeable future."