Firm helps make ‘Brooklyn Tech Triangle’ a reality
Awhile back, this newspaper reported on the “Brooklyn Tech Triangle” initiative to develop the area between Downtown Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Navy Yard and DUMBO to make it the largest cluster of high-tech activity outside Manhattan.
Part of the plan involves reactivating key buildings such as the Empire Stores, office buildings currently owned by the Watchtower, unusual government offices near Cadman Plaza and long-unused space above stores in the Fulton Mall.
To reactivate these buildings and others, however, they must be brought up to current high-tech standards. One of the companies working with the Brooklyn Tech Triangle Coalition to achieve this is the Control Group, a Manhattan-based technology design firm.
Among the group’s objectives are to dramatically expand public WiFi throughout the district, to increase fiber availability in tech buildings by help to get high-speed broadband fiber from the curb to the desktop (the “last mile”), to meet with representatives of creative digital enterprises, and to give startups the change to test their products locally.