Brooklyn's ultimate artisanal makers, the bearded Mast brothers, are expanding their chocolate empire. The company plans to more than double its existing workforce to about 175 and move into a ...
Electric cars are scarce in Brooklyn, but Tesla Motors may change that. The luxury electric car maker plans to open a showroom in Red Hook -- yes, that transit-starved area that has become a ...
Sunset Park's industrial spaces were once the victims of urban blight and a dying manufacturing sector; they served as the backdrop for the tortured souls in Hubert Selby Jr.'s 1964 novel Last Ex...
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Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council are in agreement: more makers, fewer hotels. In an effort to expand New York's industrial sector, city politicians plan to stem the influx of hotels in Ind...
https://www.brownstoner.com/development/industrial-business-zones-special-permit-hotel-2015/
MakerBot is one of the powerhouses of the Brooklyn tech and maker scene -- a movement that's bringing back DIY with a tech-friendly twist. Founded in a Dean Street workshop in 2009, the company h...
Outwardly, there is not much sign of progress at 850 Metropolitan Avenue in East Williamsburg, where one of Brooklyn's busiest developers, Boaz Gilad's Brookland Capital, plans to convert an ol...
Time Inc. is moving to Brooklyn! Well, some of them are. And their dogs. According to an internal memo that Keith Kelly of The New York Post got his hands on, Time Inc. CEO Joe Ripp plans to se...
http://instagram.com/p/3AOkFgK-MW/ We've been following the Instagram account of Dominosugarfactory, an "eternal time lapse" of the iconic Williamsburg building, now part of the massive Two Tr...
Industry City's $1 billion plan to rezone and remake the Sunset Park waterfront area into a thriving destination for retail, Brooklyn "makers" and hotels is already encountering deep and powerful...
To undertake a $1,000,000,000 redevelopment that is supposed to deliver 20,000 jobs, Sunset Park waterfront industrial complex Industry City will need a rezoning to allow parking and a hotel, as ...