Overview

• An oversight task force voted 20-8 to advance the $3.5 billion plan, triggering a General Project Plan process and environmental review that bypass the city’s usual land-use path.
• The vision includes a 60-acre all-electric port, 6,000 homes with at least 40% income-restricted, roughly 28 acres of open space, commercial and industrial space, and cruise terminal upgrades with a 400-room hotel.
• City and state leaders say about $410 million in public funding is committed, with aims to shift freight from trucks to waterways and generate significant jobs and economic activity.
• Opponents, including co-chair Alexa Avilés, say transportation, sewer capacity, flood risk, and working-waterfront protections remain unresolved, and they criticized the closed-door vote as lacking transparency.
• Next steps include drafting the GPP and environmental studies in 2026, standing up a new development corporation and advisory task force, seeking a long-term port operator by late 2026, and phasing construction that could extend to 2038.