Downtown Brooklyn Partnership Taps Brooklyn Bridge Park President Regina Myer for Top Role

Regina Myer, who was named to the helm of Brooklyn Bridge Park in 2008, will assume the same role for nonprofit development corporation the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership. Myer will take over for past president Tucker Reed this November.

Myer is a Brooklyn “visionary” and will build on the recent growth of Downtown Brooklyn “by stitching the neighborhood together with vital infrastructure, and continuing to advocate for targeted investment in office space to meet the demands of the growing innovation economy in the area,” said MaryAnne Gilmartin and Bre Pettis, co-chairs of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership Board of Directors and executives at Forest City Ratner and Bold Machines, in a prepared statement.

Myer has a tsunami of relevant planning experience, particularly in Brooklyn. She oversaw a period of transformation during her time as the head of Brooklyn Bridge Park, turning a formerly industrial waterfront into an extensive and popular park with more than 330,000 visitors a year and also weathering a firestorm of criticism from locals over controversial developments in the park, particularly Pierhouse and Pier 6.

Past roles include Senior Vice President for Planning and Design at the Hudson Yards Corp. and 22 years at the Department of City Planning, where she helped lead the 2004 rezoning of Downtown Brooklyn that paved the way for its recent growth.

As Downtown Brooklyn Partnership President, she will help connect Downtown to Brooklyn Bridge Park and other green spaces in the area by advocating for the Brooklyn Strand plan. Other programs include the Tech Triangle Initiative and Culture Forward, which aim to encourage artists and tech innovation in the area.

She will speak at the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership’s Brooklyn Innovation Summit later this month. The park has not yet announced plans for a replacement.

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