NEW YORK CITY-As DUMBO, the Navy Yard and Downtown Brooklyn continues to establish itself as the city’s new “Tech Triangle,” a 30-acre stretch along Third Avenue is also experiencing a renaissance of sorts, emerging as a hub for creative, industrial and office users.

From artisans, architects, data centers, garment workers and start-ups, a diverse roster of tenants are setting up shop at Industry City at Bush Terminal, a 17-building, 6.5-million-square-foot commercial complex along the Gowanus Bay in Sunset Park, Brooklyn – a site where leasing activity is on the rise.

“It is starting to accelerate,” Bruce Federman, managing director at Industry City, tells GlobeSt.com, noting that the property has undergone a major repositioning over the last several years as a means to attract new businesses to the area. Many users, he explains, are looking for the loft-style spaces that have vanished in other neighborhoods. “The changes that have taken place in the business community in Manhattan and the outer-boroughs made this a likely candidate for a change into IT, advertising, media, small craft and small uses that are being displaced from the rest of the New York area. They can’t find a proper home, and we feel like we are that proper home because of the zoning and the proximity to the subways.”

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