Williamsburg’s Bedford Avenue Among Priciest Retail Strips in the Country, Report Finds
It’s no secret that Williamsburg’s storefront rents are some of the priciest in the borough, but a new report now reveals they are also some of the priciest in the country.
Even More Offices Coming to Bushwick: Rabsky Group to Convert Big Warehouse
Williamsburg-based Rabsky Group will soon ink a deal to pay roughly $48,000,000 for a potential-laden warehouse in the Bushwick loft area. Can you guess what they have in store for the site? Not condos!
Rabsky is jumping on the creative-Bushwick bandwagon, joining developers like Bushwack Capital and All Year Management to build commercial space (offices with a dash of retail) in the formerly industrial ‘hood, reported The Real Deal.
Navy Yard Wegmans Tops 2015’s List of Biggest Brooklyn Retail Leases
With property values continuing to skyrocket, this year saw a number of real estate records broken — but not in the retail market.
Sale of Dime Savings Bank Officially Closes: Brooklyn, Prepare for Your Tallest Tower Yet
It’s a done deal: Downtown Brooklyn’s neo-Classical Dime Savings Bank has officially sold to developers Joe Chetrit and Michael Stern for $90,000,000.
Renovation, T-Mobile Store to Spruce up Look, Retail Rents on Downtown Strip
Just what Brooklyn needs: Another T-Mobile.
An additional outpost of the cell phone and communications company has signed a lease at 93 Court Street — a once-glorious Tudor-style architecture office — for $200 a square foot, a CPEX spokesperson told Brownstoner, in what may well be a new high for the area’s retail rents.
Based on a rendering from CPEX, which brokered the deal, the facade of the building will be repaired for the better, but sadly not restored. Trust us, you want to see it in its original glory:
Are the Witnesses Cashing In on a Broken Promise to Fix Dumbo Subway Stop and Park?
The Jehovah’s Witnesses will have sold upwards of $1,000,000,000 worth of Brooklyn property by the time they complete their move upstate. But the plan to sell one site in particular — 85 Jay Street in Dumbo — has some locals fuming over profits on allegedly broken promises.
Caerus, Hustvedt Cutler Architects Remake Greenpoint Pencil Factory Into Offices
As Brooklyn scrambles to meet demand for office space, another of the landmarked Eberhard Faber Pencil Factory buildings in Greenpoint is getting fixed up and turned into modern offices.
Coworking Space to Make Home for Tech Startups at 1000 Dean in Crown Heights
Crown Heights already has a co-living building. Now it’s getting some mega-sized coworking space.
The Vault — a tech-oriented coworking company based in San Francisco — just signed a lease for a new outpost in 1000 Dean, the neighborhood’s creative office hive established by Brownstoner founder Jonathan Butler.
Bed Stuy’s Iconic Slave Theater Sells to Developer, Already Hit With DOB Complaints
Bed Stuy’s historic Slave Theater — a bastion of Afro-centric culture and activism since the 1980s — and two adjacent lots were sold to developer Eli Hemway for $18,500,000, according to The Real Deal. Permits have yet to be filed for development or renovation at any of the three sites: 1215 Fulton Street, 10 Halsey Street, and 16 Halsey Street.
Given the theater’s embattled history (more on that below), a kerfuffle is likely.
Tech Giant Amazon Expands to Sunset Park, Near Industry City
One of the world’s biggest companies, e-commerce behemoth Amazon, is coming to Brooklyn. The tech giant, which has a bigger market cap than Wal-mart and is No. 35 on the Fortune 500 list, is opening a distribution center in Sunset Park.