Brooklyn Brewery to build new HQ, brewery, rooftop restaurant and beer garden at Navy Yard
Brewery to Bring 124 Jobs to Navy Yard in 2018
In a move that will both boost food and beverage manufacturing and create greater public access to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Mayor Bill de Blasio and the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation announced on Monday that Brooklyn Brewery is expanding its operations and building a new brewery, headquarters and rooftop restaurant and beer garden at the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s Building 77.
The de Blasio administration has invested more than $100 million to transform Building 77 into a 1 million-square-foot manufacturing center. Brooklyn Brewery will employ 124 people at the Yard, with the long-term goal of creating an additional 100 jobs.
“Brooklyn Brewery is a welcome addition to the Yard’s growing roster, bringing along with it more than a hundred quality jobs and some of the best brews our city has to offer,” said de Blasio.
Brooklyn Brewery, which opened its first brewery in Williamsburg 20 years ago, will lease a total of 75,000 square feet in the building, which is now undergoing a $185 million redevelopment. It joins anchor tenant Russ & Daughters in the ground-floor food manufacturing hub, as well as other food manufacturers including chocolate maker Mast Brothers and coffee maker Brooklyn Roasting Company — both of which have recently announced plans to open manufacturing facilities at the Brooklyn Navy Yard — in the Yard more broadly. The brewery will produce 50,000 barrels annually at the Yard.