Innovation, Jobs to Remake Navy Yard, Brooklyn

Once a hub of wartime manufacturing, the Navy Yard will again serve as an incubator for jobs and technology, if the vision of Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp. comes to fruition. First up on the list is Building 77, formerly an ammunitions depot. It is being repurposed as “factory space for brainiacs and their futuristic products,” according to an article in the New York Daily News. At the moment, only 10 percent of the tenants in the industrial park are high-tech. Some of them have been working on “bomb-proof underwear and fake ‘fish’ that generate electricity,” said the Daily News. New tenants in Building 77 are expected to create 1,500 jobs in the next five years. Currently, the 300 or so occupants of the Navy Yard employ 6,400. Many are in the fields of construction, architecture, film and media, such as Steiner Studios. Who would you like to see working at the Navy Yard?
Techies Coming to Navy Yard with Futuristic Inventions, Jobs [NY Daily News]
Navy Yard to Start Work on Building 77 [Brownstoner]
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