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Multifamily, High-Tech Jobs, Grow in Brooklyn

NEW YORK CITY-The city’s professed “coolest borough” is evolving into a hub for arts, culture and technology, panelists discussed at the Brooklyn Historical Society’s annual Real Estate Roundtable luncheon.

By Jacqueline Hlavenka | Updated on November 01, 2011

NEW YORK CITY-From a “Tech Triangle” to a downtown multicultural arts district, city officials, developers and neighborhood institutions predicted that the future of Brooklyn’s real estate growth will be based in new clusters. “We need to embrace smart planning and see where industries are beginning to form,” said New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who kicked off the Brooklyn Historical Society’s  “Real Estate Roundtable” on Tuesday afternoon, a quarterly luncheon series dedicated to examining, analyzing and reviewing the critical issues in Brooklyn real estate. “We need to ask how we can see those clusters and then help them really grow in ways that are significant,” she added.

Quinn proposed that DUMBO, Downtown Brooklyn and the Brooklyn Navy Yard could emerge as a “Silicon Valley of the East” based on its potential for high-tech job growth and strong existing infrastructure. “We could make a very powerful Brooklyn tech triangle,” she said, explaining that transportation issues and other zoning concerns would need to be mitigated, but said it wouldn’t be impossible. “Look at Hudson Yards. It wasn’t easy to create a whole new neighborhood on the West Side of Manhattan, it wasn’t easy to expand the 7 train outside of the MTA’s capital budget through the economic downturn, but we did it,” Quinn added. “If we want to create neighborhoods that are real clusters that have the potential for tech to grow and boom and make New York the tech capital of the world, we can do this.”

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