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Eight years after a 10-alarm fire engulfed several of its buildings, Greenpoint Terminal Market’s vacant warehouses are finally seeing some new life. 67 West Street, a five-story brick warehouse that survived the fire, has since been transformed into event spaces for weddings, galleries and artist studios. And across the street, a 65,000-square-foot factory building at 42 West Street (pictured) is slowly being converted to commercial space. Most of the windows are in, and a parking lot is being paved in the back. There will be ground floor retail and four stories of office space, according to Schedule A filings. Nicholas Scire-Chianetta of NSC Architecture is the architect of record.

But next door, an even taller factory building at 60 West Street is still mostly vacant, except for the ground floor, which is occupied by a poultry transport company and a granite distributor. The upper floors of the seven-story structure are empty and strewn with construction equipment and trash, evidence of a slow-moving rehabilitation project approved by the DOB earlier this year. Windows have gone in on the western side, but otherwise there isn’t much sign of progress.

As longtime readers may recall, the fire was investigated as suspicious but owner Joshua Guttman was not charged. Before the fire, the Municipal Art Society had suggested landmarking the buildings.

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And here’s a view of 67 West Street, now galleries and event spaces:

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