Brooklyn Navy Yard staff announce plans for new public portal
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Continuing its growth and diversification, the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation’s (BNYDC) latest project is development of Building 77 as the Yard’s new public portal. “It will be a small version of what’s happening in the yard as a whole,” BNYDC Chief of Staff Clare Newman explained. “It will be open to the public and have 3,000 people working within. We expect it will become a hub of activity, with food and retail shops on the ground floor. It will be a place where all the yard businesses can come together.”
The 16-story building, originally designed as a windowless warehouse, will benefit from a $185 million dollar build-out that will leave it with two penthouse floors and a 60,000-square-foot ground floor, slated to include, among others, Russ & Daughters as tenants.