Pratt Opens Design Startup Center in Old Pfizer Space on Flushing in Bed Stuy

Pratt will celebrate the official opening of its design incubator in the Pfizer Building in Bed Stuy with an invitation-only event Tuesday evening, a spokesperson told us. Located at 630 Flushing Avenue on the seventh floor of the former pharmaceutical factory, The Brooklyn Fashion and Design Accelerator (BF+DA) has room for 30 startups and now houses 17 venture and research fellows, according to its website. Move-ins started some time ago, and Pratt held a ribbon cutting when it announced the center about a year ago.

The center is focused on fashion design and has a small sewing factory capable of producing one to 100 units of an item. There are also laser cutting machines, digital printers for textiles, and knitting machines, all of which are handy for quickly making samples and prototypes. There are also design and testing labs for new dyes, finishes and digital creation. A showroom and event space can be used for work, a lecture hall, performances or a fashion runway, according to the center’s website. 

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