FreshDirect Moving to Brooklyn, Leasing Space in Bed Stuy's Former Pfizer Plant
FreshDirect may be making yet another move — this time to Brooklyn. The 13-year-old online grocery-delivery company is currently in the process of moving out of its Long Island City location and up to a new facility in the South Bronx, but apparently it needs even more space. According to the Commercial Observer, FreshDirect has leased 20,000…
FreshDirect may be making yet another move — this time to Brooklyn.
The 13-year-old online grocery-delivery company is currently in the process of moving out of its Long Island City location and up to a new facility in the South Bronx, but apparently it needs even more space.
According to the Commercial Observer, FreshDirect has leased 20,000 square feet in Bedford Stuyvesant’s former Pfizer building, near the Williamsburg border.
The massive industrial warehouse at 630 Flushing Avenue totals 575,000 square feet and spans an entire block. Currently, the space is only half occupied, mostly by light manufacturing and creative tenants, according to the Commercial Observer.
The Pfizer pharmaceutical company used the building as its headquarters for more than 150 years. The Brooklyn plant closed down in 2008 and was abandoned until 2011, when Acumen Capital Partners bought the space for $19,000,000.
Although FreshDirect may now find a new home in Bed Stuy, it wasn’t until 2008 that they even delivered to the neighborhood.
A FreshDirect spokesperson told Brownstoner that they have no comment on the expansion plans.
[Source: CO | Photo: Christopher Bride for Property Shark]
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The community in the South Bronx has been fighting against this Fresh Direct move to the area for years now and so should Bed Stuy for the very same reasons. This is a very shady deal and our politicians are in their pockets. They weren’t even planning on delivering in the Bronx and it took community pressure to get them to agree to. Adding pollution and low wage jobs is not what the South Bronx needs and just like their move from LIC once land prices skyrocket they’ll be extorting more money to move somewhere else.
http://www.welcome2thebronx.com/wordpress/2015/03/11/emails-reveal-freshdirect-lobbyist-may-have-steered-mayor-de-blasio-to-side-with-company-fd-continues-to-raise-ethical-concerns/
The community in the South Bronx has been fighting against this Fresh Direct move to the area for years now and so should Bed Stuy for the very same reasons. This is a very shady deal and our politicians are in their pockets. They weren’t even planning on delivering in the Bronx and it took community pressure to get them to agree to. Adding pollution and low wage jobs is not what the South Bronx needs and just like their move from LIC once land prices skyrocket they’ll be extorting more money to move somewhere else.
http://www.welcome2thebronx.com/wordpress/2015/03/11/emails-reveal-freshdirect-lobbyist-may-have-steered-mayor-de-blasio-to-side-with-company-fd-continues-to-raise-ethical-concerns/