Kushner-owned former Jehovah’s campus added to DUMBO BID
With the stroke of a pen, Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday expanded the DUMBO Business Improvement District (BID) to include the former Jehovah’s Witnesses’ buildings in DUMBO along Prospect and Sands Streets. The 1.2 million-square-foot, five-building campus is now known as DUMBO Heights.
Kushner Companies’ Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and advisor, partnered with LIVWRK and RFR to acquire the DUMBO Heights campus from Watchtower Real Estate in October 2013. (More on this here.)
The partnership undertook a more than $100 million gut renovation to transform the site into a creative office campus in Brooklyn.