Building 77 Lands Anchor Tenant

Set to open in 2017, Building 77 will be the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s public gateway following a $185 million upgrade.

NEW YORK CITY—Start-up company funder 1776 has leased the top floor of Building 77 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and struck up a partnership with the Navy Yard to fuel innovation here. The agreement—in which the firm will take 30,000 square feet of space but retain expansion options—comes in response to Mayor Bill de Blasio‘s charge to create and preserve quality jobs in line with his administration’s $100 million investment in Building 77.

“Once again, New York City is showing the world what inclusive, meaningful entrepreneurship and economic development looks like,” says de Blasio. “Partnering with 1776 at the Navy Yard is a big step toward achieving our goal of making our city the global capital of the new innovation economy.”