Bathgate Industrial Park is an

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located in the

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neighborhood of

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. It is south of the Cross Bronx Expressway, west of Third and Fulton Avenues (near

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), north of Claremont Parkway, and east of Washington Avenue in the district of

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. A joint project of the

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and the

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(the PANYNJ leasing it from the NYCEDC) it opened in 1982 and is operated as a non profit organization. It was developed as an incentive to revitalize the South Bronx. The designation of the Bathgate Industrial Park in 1980 involved rezoning a former residential district characterized by vacant land and buildings. The industrial park covers seven city blocks spanning , and contains eight buildings and has approximately 454,000 square feet of space for light industrial, distribution, office and educational uses. Tenants include a generic drug manufacturer and food distributors, and academic and vocational training centers. The Mott Hall Bronx High School and the Urban Assembly School for Applied Math and Science are located on the site, within the Bathgate Educational Campus. In January 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, a "mega-facility" vaccination site for COVID-19 vaccinations was opened at Bathgate Industrial Park, operating

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. Previously, the location had been a COVID testing site.

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