Firms Bring Jobs to Brooklyn

BROOKLYN, NY-In a $40-million project, Axis Group Inc. agreed to lease and develop a modern automobile-processing facility at the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal in Sunset Park here. The project, which will create 165 auto-processing jobs and more than 140 jobs related to stevedoring, warehousing and associated activities, is part of an effort to reinvigorate the city’s maritime transportation. Axis plans to lease about 74 of the terminal’s 88 acres for 20 years, with two five-year extensions.

“This agreement with Axis will help revitalize the Brooklyn waterfront by creating jobs, attracting new industries and increasing waterborne transport to relieve truck traffic and improve our environment,” says New York City Economic Development Corp. president Andrew M. Alper.

In September, scrap metal processors Hugo Neu Schnitzer East, said it planned to build a $25-million modern recycling facility at SBMT. That facility will create 160 construction jobs and 100 permanent jobs. Over the next 20 years, the city will give the firm all of the metal, glass, plastic and a portion of the mixed paper collected through recycling.