Sunset Park waterfront may welcome Brooklyn Nets training center
The Brooklyn Nets may be one step closer to severing their New Jersey ties and becoming a fully Brooklyn team. In the process, they could also be contributing to the ongoing revitalization of Sunset Park’s waterfront.
Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov reportedly signed a tentative deal with Industry City’s real estate firm Jamestown Properties to build a state-of-the-art training facility in Sunset Park, on the top floor of 148 39th Street—an eight-floor building within the 16-building manufacturing complex previously known as Bush Terminal that is gradually becoming a hub for creative and light industrial businesses.
The Nets have declined to comment or confirm the report, but according to The New York Times¸ while the deal has yet to be finalized, if it is approved, the training facility will also house operations offices and will be completed by Fall of 2015. Until then, the basketball team would continue to train in their Rutherford, New Jersey facilities.