The city’s push to transform South Brooklyn into an office and manufacturing destination is getting a boost.
Four tenants have leased a combined 58,000 square feet at the Brooklyn Army Terminal, New York’s Economic Development Corporation announced Thursday. Also on the waterfront, the city’s MADE Bush Terminal also signed a new tenant.
NYCEDC, the two terminals’ landlord, is a public benefit corporation and serves to promote economic development in New York. The leases support NYCEDC’s goals of turning its existing facilities into a workforce and manufacturing hub and bringing more tenants to Sunset Park in Brooklyn. The new agreements bring Brooklyn Army Terminal to “nearly 90 percent” leased, according to a NYCEDC spokesperson. MADE Bush Terminal, which opened in 2024, is about 40 percent leased.
“Sunset Park has been a manufacturing hub for generations, and these new tenants are proof that its best days are still ahead,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a statement.
The new tenants at Brooklyn Army Terminal are Audible Difference, an audiovisual design company; EcoLogic Solutions, a B2B cleaning products manufacturer; GoLocker, a package-receiving locker company; and Otto Nemenz International, a camera and lens rental company.
As of 2022, asking rents in the terminal had ranged from $18 to $25 per square foot.
Audible Difference signed the biggest lease of the group, a five-year agreement for 47,107 square feet.
“Audible Difference was founded in Brooklyn, and our move to the Brooklyn Army Terminal marks an important step in deepening those roots,” Audible Difference principal Erich Bechtel said in a release.
MADE Bush Terminal signed Makelab, an on-demand 3D printing company, to a five-year lease for 3,840 square feet. The campus focuses specifically on industrial workspace.
Brooklyn Army Terminal was built in 1918 as a military supply base and was active through World War II. It ended military operations in 1966 and was purchased by the city in 1981. The campus contains 4.3 million square feet of space on the Brooklyn waterfront.
NYCEDC is hoping to leverage the existing space to support economic development and investment in Brooklyn, specifically with manufacturing and emerging industries. In 2022, the Brooklyn Army Terminal signed New York Embroidery Studio to a 70,000 square foot lease, part of a push to bring garment companies out of Midtown and to lower rent sections of the city. Last month, the terminal opened a “climate hub” as part of a focus on green technology companies.
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