Douglas Elliman plans Williamsburg office

Prudential Douglas Elliman plans to open an office in Williamsburg by the middle of the summer. The brokerage giant would become the first of the big Manhattan-based firms to open an office in what has been for at least a decade one of the fastest-growing neighborhoods in Brooklyn. The new 1,500-square-foot, storefront office will be located at 299 Bedford Avenue, at South 1st Street, according to Michael Moran, Douglas Elliman’s director of sales and a broker specializing in Brooklyn. The office will be headquarters for 25 to 30 agents, Moran said Tuesday, and will have about 40 feet of street-facing windows. By Tom Acitelli