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The New York City Economic Development Corporation has released a Request for Proposals in search of qualified developers to take over the project.

The Kingsbridge Armory has been sitting vacant for close to three decades. After failed attempts to turn it into a shopping mall and an ice-skating rink, the city is now looking for help from the outside for its redevelopment.  

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Good stuff there. All right, let's get another check of the weather. Yeah, Alan's back and we're talking cold weather like we're probably used to doing in December. Right. A right. Right. So we're pretty much back to where we should be this time of year. And you think today is cold gets even colder into tomorrow. So, let's take a look. Let's fast forward 24 hours and what we're going to see our temperatures close to the freezing mark tomorrow morning, especially northern parts of our bro. So Riverdale and North Bay Chester close to that freezing mark and it's going to feel like a little bit below freezing. So definitely colder than this morning. 34 for sound, be 35 for throgs that not much of an improvement into the afternoon as we're going to see lots of cloud cover, keeping us on the cold side. So it's going to be a struggle to reach 40 degrees. I think most of us do that. But it's going to feel like the thirties all day long. So, back to that December kind of cold hour by hour, you can see most of the day we're in the thirties, maybe during that two o'clock hour, we do reach the 40 degree mark. Then things get a little bit interesting for Thursday. Notice clouds come right back in and look at the left side of the screen over there. That's right. That's snow. So for us it's just going to be cold, it's going to be about 39 degrees. Then look at that. A couple of snowflakes are pretty close to us here in the Bronx. Of course, this is still a couple of days out, but I can't rule out a couple of those snowflakes, but the forecast is definitely improving most of the day is going to be dry. So looking at Hanukkah as it is ushering in uh for sunset, the temperatures, they are going down from 39 degrees into the middle 30. So you definitely want to bundle up if you're going out and about 10 day forecast is going to show warm up goes really, really into overdrive this weekend. But so does the rain chance big storm system looks likelier and likelier when exactly on Sunday, we're figuring that out, but move those plans to Saturday. Good advice for everyone. Thank you, Alan. Well, getting rid of rats once and for all requires all.

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City, state seeking developers to take over Kingsbridge Armory 

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Have you ever walked past the Kingsbridge Armory and wondered what's going on inside that seemingly abandoned castle? Well, the city is now opening up the discussion floor to developers that are interested in its eventual redevelopment. And Cecilia Hua has the story from Kingsbridge after sitting vacant for nearly 30 years and two failed redevelopment attempts. The more than 500,000 square feet, Kingsbridge Armory may finally gain a new purpose. This building has been ignored for decades. The New York City Economic Development Corporation released a request for proposals seeking qualified developers for the redesign and operation of the armory. All of this backed by the together for Kingsbridge vision plan and a $2 million budget from the mayor and the governor. I would actually boil that down into, into two major priorities that I heard from the community. One, it needs to serve the youth of our community and two, it needs to produce good paying jobs. But community members are worried that the city may bring in developers that do not share the vision that the people has laid out. We're frankly disappointed that the language that the vision document is actually not included in the request for proposal. So it watered down the labor language. It doesn't include community ownership at all. It doesn't name any of the priority uses. Council member Sanchez tells us respondents to the RFP must conform to the community vision and will be graded on a rubric. The submission deadline is January of 2024 from Kingsbridge, Cecilia Hua News 12.

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