Navy Yard Manufacturers Thriving, More Space Planned
A ray of light among the darkening clouds: According to The Times, some niche manufacturers are doing just fine right now. Scott Jordan, whose workshop is in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, for example, told the Gray Lady that sales of his $2,600 sleeper sofas and $3,000 beds have actually risen of late. In fact, because…
A ray of light among the darkening clouds: According to The Times, some niche manufacturers are doing just fine right now. Scott Jordan, whose workshop is in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, for example, told the Gray Lady that sales of his $2,600 sleeper sofas and $3,000 beds have actually risen of late. In fact, because of demand from small businesses like this, the Navy Yard plans to add another 1.5 million square feet of space and another 2,000 workers in the next two years, recession be damned.
In NYC, No Crisis for Niche Manufacturers [NY Times]
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the parking lot is an important part of what they want to put on that land. No parking no manufacturing. The little old houses could be rebuilt and replicated to look like they once looked. But then you would have little replica Victorian houses, and what would you do with them?
We don’t lack for old houses in Brooklyn, on the other hand a conveneient large supermarket and industrial space to rent we could use more of.
Sorry, Sam, but the amount of room taken up by the Row is a parking lot to the huge amounts of space there. It is still preferable to have a restored Admiral’s Row, repurposed as museum/offices/retail, as well as industrial space. They are not mutually exclusive goals, except in the eyes of the Powers That Be, that don’t want to do it.
This will help the Navy Yard corporation in its quest to demolish the row of decrepit houses known as admirals row. They obviously need the space for their booming manufacturing tenants as per the NYT!
Whoever managed to get this article placed in the Times should get a raise.