Industry City is a 35-acre complex of converted warehouses on the Sunset Park waterfront in Brooklyn, home to food, manufacturing, design, and arts businesses.
Sixteen warehouses, 35 acres, a waterfront that once moved 70 percent of America's World War I ammunition. Industry City has always been about what gets made and shipped. The Sunset Park complex, originally Irving T. Bush's intermodal terminal from the 1890s, spent decades in disrepair before Jamestown and Belvedere Capital began a $1 billion rehabilitation in 2013. Today it houses over 650 tenants: furniture makers and lighting designers in the Brooklyn Design District, NYU Tisch's Martin Scorsese Virtual Production Center in Buildings 7 and 8, Adafruit's open-source electronics manufacturing floor, a Makers Guild of artisans on the ground level. The animating question here isn't aesthetics: it's whether a working industrial campus can stay genuinely productive, not just polished.
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