Building 77 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard will have more than a million square feet of space on the Brooklyn waterfront for businesses in the industrial and manufacturing sectors, making it one of the largest openings of its kind in decades in the borough.
Huge thanks to everyone who helped make yesterday so special! We're grateful for the opportunity to support and grow our #BNY community. pic.twitter.com/KNAmRLciHQ
— Brooklyn Navy Yard (@BklynNavyYard) November 10, 2017
The building’s tenants will include SITU Studio, a fabrication and design studio, film production company Casual Films, which is moving from Greenpoint, and startup incubator 1776NY, which has been in a temporary space in another Navy Yard building for the past two years.
In total, 29 tenants have signed leases for the building.
Amazing night & energy at the @BklynNavyYard #BLDG77 ribbon cutting, home of @1776NY , w/ @JenniferLMaher & @JerreRiggs #NECorridor pic.twitter.com/96ngP7icFs
— Anthony Maher (@AnthonyMaher12) November 10, 2017
“We believe that the future of tech and manufacturing are going to intersect in places like New York,” David Ehrenberg, the president and CEO of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation, told us last year in an interview last year about his vision for the space. “With the internet of things or medical devices, that embedding of tech into every product is really just beginning in some ways. We want to be that spot in New York where these things intersect. To do that we believe we have to operate the Yard as a true 21st-century business hub.”
We’re here at the opening of #BLDG77 at @bklynnavyyard. Look out for our next location set to open in 2018!
•••#g… https://t.co/PfXU5WXcN7 pic.twitter.com/HOosDnSyYf— Grandchamps (@GrandchampsBK) November 9, 2017
The city, which owns the building, expects the complex to bring 3,000 jobs in total.
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Renovations on the building cost $185 million.
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