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The aim was to bring back 1,300 stable, blue-collar jobs and 400 construction jobs to the underutilized waterfront industrial park - a deal championed by local and federal elected officials at the time.īut by 2019, the building remained largely vacant, aside from retailers on the first two levels. Nearly a century later, in 2011, federal and city officials inked a deal to sell the building to Salmar Properties in for just $9.4 million - on the condition, spelled out in a deed restriction, that 85% of the 1.1 million-square-foot warehouse be reserved for industrial uses. During World War II, it served as a factory for military uniforms, then was used as a naval warehouse. The warehouse was built in 1918 to supply ships during World War I. The move toward city office space is the latest wrinkle in the long story of Liberty Bklyn. The amount of vacant office space across the city continues to rise, with around 16% of offices empty through March, or about 76 million square feet, THE CITY reported. The agency plans to shift workers from there, and seven other offices in Downtown Brooklyn and lower Manhattan, to the new space on Third Avenue.ĭocuments submitted to City Planning do not refer to any other possible locations considered, nor do they state what the city will pay Salmar Properties to lease the new space in Sunset Park. The lease at HRA’s headquarters located at 15 MetroTech Center expires in July of 2024 and the agency says it’s anticipating a sizable rent increase at that location. while saving tens of millions of dollars for NYC and maintaining hundreds of jobs in Brooklyn,” said Jonathan Ratner of Madison Capital, the building’s property manager. “The proposed office lease with HRA would streamline operations consolidating multiple office floors elsewhere to 1-2 floors at 850 Third Ave. A spokesperson for DCAS didn’t immediately return a request for comment. ![]() The proposed lease is set to be considered by the City Planning Commission at a public hearing Wednesday.Ī spokesperson for the Department of Social Services, which includes HRA, didn’t respond to a request for comment. ![]() HRA and two other city agencies, the Administration for Children’s Services and the Department of Finance, are seeking a total of 214,000 square feet of space inside Liberty Bklyn, a warehouse building at 850 Third Avenue, near Industry City.
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