The award winning Digital NYC, having received the International Development Research Council's Global Innovator's Award last year, is an endeavor of the Economic Development Corp. The Sunset Park Technology District is one of seven districts in the city participating in the Digital NYC program. The program offers tax incentives and other financial assistance for locating within the city. The EDC also worked with the Southwest Brooklyn Industrial Development Corp.

The EDC released a statement from its president, Michael Carey, following confirmation of the lease deal. He credits the mayor for his efforts to support drawing high-tech and new media industries to the city and says they have risen to become an important part of the city's economy in a very short time.

"By offering hundreds of thousands of square feet of affordable, Internet-ready office space throughout the city, the Digital NYC: Wired to the World program is expanding the boundaries of Manhattan's Silicon Alley and allowing the other boroughs to participate in and perpetuate the success these industries have enjoyed," Carey says. "In just eight months the program has attracted some of the industry's biggest and most exciting companies, bringing jobs and opportunity to once neglected areas."