Construction Well Under Way at Enormous, Neighborhood-Changing Navy Yard Building
When finished, Building 77 will add 1,000,000 square feet of workspace and an estimated 3,000 jobs — expanding the Navy Yard’s workforce by over 40 percent. As developers scramble to meet rising demand for commercial space within the Brooklyn Tech Triangle, the Brooklyn Navy Yard has been steadily working towards the addition of a significant chunk of…
When finished, Building 77 will add 1,000,000 square feet of workspace and an estimated 3,000 jobs — expanding the Navy Yard’s workforce by over 40 percent.
As developers scramble to meet rising demand for commercial space within the Brooklyn Tech Triangle, the Brooklyn Navy Yard has been steadily working towards the addition of a significant chunk of manufacturing space.
Building 77, a former Navy storage facility, is currently under extensive renovation and slated to reopen as commercial space in 2017. The scaffolding was just removed from the building’s east face, and the Navy Yard Thursday released a new rendering showing how the structure will be transformed.
The new rendering of Building 77 shows a glossier facade, branding, and more bottom floor detail than earlier renderings.
The building’s still-windowless bottom floors will house a public food hall, food manufacturing space, and collaboration hub for other Yard businesses.
Despite a $140,00,000 city-funded budget, lead architect Beyer Blinder Belle faced challenging prospects in renovating the industrial facility. It had lacked windows on its lower 12 floors, making it essentially uninhabitable for non-vampiric workers.
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But just look at Building 77 now:
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Photo by Barbara Eldredge
[Rendering:Â Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation]
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The reason the majority of the floors don’t have windows is because, as the author mentioned, Building 77 used to be a munitions storage facility. When the facility was first proposed, it was heavily opposed by local residents, but finally got the green light when the Navy suggested adding officer’s quarters on the top floors to prove how confident they were in the structural integrity of the building.
This is why the top several floors have glass windows while the others do not.
The reason the majority of the floors don’t have windows is because, as the author mentioned, Building 77 used to be a munitions storage facility. When the facility was first proposed, it was heavily opposed by local residents, but finally got the green light when the Navy suggested adding officer’s quarters on the top floors to prove how confident they were in the structural integrity of the building.
This is why the top several floors have glass windows while the others do not.