Last week, WXY Architecture + Urban Design presented a major strategic planning initiative to the Brooklyn Tech Triangle coalition – a development team that includes the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, the DUMBO Improvement District, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation. Its goal? To continue transforming downtown Brooklyn – already the largest location for tech activity outside of Manhattan – into a vibrant destination for technology industry tenants.
Within two years, Brooklyn’s 18,000 tech jobs and 43,000 supporting jobs will face a lack of commercial and light industrial space. And with Midtown South vacancies low and rents sky high, WXY is proposing some broad initiatives designed to continue attracting technology companies, start-up firms, and other workers to the Tech Triangle, which stretches roughly across downtown Brooklyn, DUMBO, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
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