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Green Manufacturing Center at the Brooklyn Navy Yard by Cybul Partnership

Posted on January 15th, 2010 under Architecture News. Post a comment

In late October, New York State gave manufacturing in Brooklyn a push in the right direction by chipping in to help build a 220,000 square foot Green Manufacturing Center at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and to outfit an expansion of the Brooklyn Brewery in Williamsburg with green technology.

The Navy Yard center will be built on the foundations of three old machine shop facilities recycling some of the existing structure. With the downturn, the rate of encroachment on industrial areas has slowed, allowing for a green reincarnation of an industry not usually known for being clean. Tenants will be able to rent spaces ranging from 5,000 to 50,000 square feet. The building will get a new skin and roof, outfitted with one of the city’s largest solar arrays.

Possible tenants could include a carpet and electronic waste recycling facilities and green building product manufacturers. The state is providing nearly $16 million for the project. The symbol that it represents is very important. It shows the state’s investment in green manufacturing and technology, Amy Anderson, a project manager for the New York Industrial Retention Network (NYIRN) said.

The center is the latest push in an ongoing process to make the Yard a sustainable industrial park, including infrastructure improvements like wind powered street lights, porous paving to prevent run-off, and a smaller building with the city’s first building-integrated wind turbines.

Meanwhile at the Brooklyn Brewery, owner Steve Hindy has been a vocal advocate for the importance of manufacturing in the city and has written editorials on the subject.

While both projects are good news for green manufacturing in the city, the sector is still highly threatened, according to NYIRN. The advocacy group believes the city should do more to preserve and develop private industrial space. The Brooklyn Navy Yard is an ideal model, but it’s not necessarily practical for the city to buy up all the industrial zones. There have been a lot of rezonings recently, and the city has been permitting too many commercial uses in industrial zones. Mixed use is great in many areas, but it drives up rents in industrial zones and drives out industry, Amy Anderson said. Written by Alan G Brake of Archpaper.com

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