Reviving Brooklyn's Waterfront, 19th Century Warehouses Evolve Into 21st Century Hubs

After fifty years of neglect the Empire Stores, located next to the Brooklyn Bridge, are now the most coveted waterfront property in New York. Midtown Equity has partnered with Studio V Architecture to adaptively reuse the 19th-century coffee warehouse into 380,000 square-feet of office, restaurant and commercial space, highlighted by a Brooklyn-centric cultural museum. "After the Brooklyn Bridge," says Joe Cayre, Chairman of Midtown Equities, "the Civil War era Empire Stores are the most iconic structures on the Brooklyn waterfront. As a Brooklyn native who raised my family in the borough, it is an honor for my firm to be chosen for the redevelopment of the Empire Stores."

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Cite: Jose Luis Gabriel Cruz. "Reviving Brooklyn's Waterfront, 19th Century Warehouses Evolve Into 21st Century Hubs" 14 Sep 2013. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/427667/reviving-brooklyn-s-waterfront-19th-century-warehouses-evolve-into-21st-century-hubs> ISSN 0719-8884

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