Empire State of Mind: Inside the iconic Empire Stores warehouses
Eye On Real Estate
It’s Back to the Future – behind the construction fence at Empire Stores.
Step inside with Eye on Real Estate for a look at DUMBO’s famed former coffee warehouses – which are a surviving slice of Brooklyn’s past, when the shoreline was teeming with industrial businesses.
Midtown Equities is turning the seven landmarked, long-vacant buildings on the edge of Brooklyn Bridge Park into an urban campus for tech tenants. At this moment in the construction process, though, everything we gaze upon is treasured historic fabric.
Red-brick exterior walls, two feet thick, are weather-beaten and beautiful, studded with stars that brace the buildings’ facade. Ghostly traces of giant painted letters cover the Main Street facade.