The $2.5 Billion Plan to Turn Brooklyn’s Navy Yard Into a Tech Hub
- With old buildings transformed, developer sketches the future
- Aim is 5.1 million more square feet at site of warship maker
Construction on Dock 72 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Photographer: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg
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America may never recover its glory as a manufacturing powerhouse, but the Brooklyn Navy Yard is doing what it can, transforming itself from a 20th-century warship builder to a 21st-century high-tech hub.
Now it’s about to unveil a $2.5 billion building plan that would more than quadruple its current workforce.