The Brooklyn Marine Terminal Task force on Monday approved an ambitious $3.5 billion Brooklyn Marine Terminal vision plan , a project that will usher in thousands of new homes, a new port and businesses to the Red Hook waterfront.

In a private meeting, the task force voted 17-8 in support of the plan, after rescheduling the vote at least five times due to a lack of consensus on the project.

“The proposal we’ve crafted is a compromise that has become stronger with each iteration, and that reflects the many good ideas and difficult decisions,” state Senator Andrew Gounardes, the task force’s vice chair, said in a statement after the vote.

U.S. Representative Dan Goldman, the chair of the task force and frequent cheerleader of the project, said the promise of 6,000 apartments, of which

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