NEW YORK CITY-Local stakeholders gave a final push to Brooklyn’s creative and high-tech community to participate in an economic impact survey that will help define their commercial real estate needs in DUMBO, the Navy Yard and Downtown Brooklyn. At a media briefing at Two Metrotech Center on Wednesday afternoon, officials from the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership and the DUMBO Improvement District urged the borough’s new technology firms, digital companies and creative start-ups to provide feedback about what they’d like to see in the area’s newly-defined “Tech Triangle” district – especially as affordable space and vacancy rates continue to shrink.

“We’ve got companies looking to grow, double in size and really expand over the next couple of years, and what we are coming up against is real estate constraints, as well as some talent constraints,” said Alexandria Sica, executive director of the DUMBO Improvement District, at the meeting. “But when you have a population and entrepreneurs who want to start their businesses in DUMBO and the Navy Yard, you want to provide them opportunities to do that.”

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The popularity of the three neighborhoods comes at a time when the city, the private sector and nonprofits are aligning to help the district grow as an incubator-type setting for emerging businesses, which in turn, has boosted occupancy rates in class A buildings as well as class B-style lofts.