Dumbo's Watchtower Buildings Get New Lease on Life as "Dumbo Heights" Tech Campus
Some preliminary renderings are out for the tech campus Kushner Companies et al are creating in Dumbo out of the five Watchtower properties they snapped up last year for $375,000,000. Kushner, RFR Realty and LIVWRK are rebranding the interconnected buildings as “Dumbo Heights,” The New York Daily News reported yesterday. Plans for the $100,000,000 overhaul include a gourmet…
Some preliminary renderings are out for the tech campus Kushner Companies et al are creating in Dumbo out of the five Watchtower properties they snapped up last year for $375,000,000. Kushner, RFR Realty and LIVWRK are rebranding the interconnected buildings as “Dumbo Heights,” The New York Daily News reported yesterday.
Plans for the $100,000,000 overhaul include a gourmet market, roof deck, pet-friendly spaces, daycare facilities and bicycle storage. Rents will start at under $60 a square foot at the 1.2-million-square-foot complex. Click through the jump for some more renderings and a map of the buildings from the project’s fancy new website.
Watchtower Buildings to Become Dumbo Heights [Daily News]
I can’t wait until “spin” and “organic” opens! Maybe they’ll open a “kale”!
Happy that will be commercial and not residential.
Why’s that, pete?
because we need to be competitve and attract different employes. So less dependent on
finance and laywers, etc. The growth of this creative sector is important for future of our city.
And I mean NYC — can’t be stuck in this provincial mindset of people who make snide comments about ‘212ers’ or other who talk about bridge and tunnel and all the other childish manhattan vs. brooklyn mentality.
Some life at street level in these buildings will be very, very welcome.
Dumbo Heights – GTFO
I disagree, LVWRK is run by a longtime Dumbo guy (true, the money is 212). This is a great project that will add needed commercial space, more vibrant street life and most importantly a lot of $ into the tax rolls from formerly tax-exempt properties. It’s nice to see a developer look at a piece of property and think something OTHER than “Wouldn’t that make a great high-end condo?”
The only unfortunate thing is the name, both because it’s lame full-stop and also because it gives laypeople the impression this is one of those cheesy high-end condo projects cooked up by greedy RE developers.