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Map Your City is rounding up the best and coolest places of 2020. It's been a challenging year for all of us - where working from home has become a new normal. But we miss the face to face conversations and the interaction on the work floor. Being inspired by each others work and creativity. Finally - there is light at the end of the tunnel and things are bound to get closer to a more normal next year.
This place certainly is the most creative and inspiring place for future creatives and makers that was mapped in 2020. Therefore we nominated it for the Workspace Award category for this year.
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Industry City is a one-stop destination of experiences, eateries, events and everything in between. An historic intermodal city, IC is comprised of 16 buildings, built on 35 acres of repurposed industrial space. The waterfront green spaces, immersive retail, and public art installations make for an entire day of discovery. The diverse mix of culture and locally born businesses is as authentic a New York experience as it gets. No visit to Industry City is ever the same.
Industry City is a community of designers, thinkers, and creators. A diverse multi-generational ecosystem, where emerging brands and established ones, artisans and entrepreneurs meet, connect, and cross-pollinate across industry lines. Woven throughout Industry City are one-of-a-kind, Brooklyn-born boutiques, mixed together with established brands. Meet the makers, see the process behind the product, and shop local.
The best place of 2020 in the category Workspace - awarded by your friends at Map Your City and our amazing community.
In 2009, Sunset Park outlined a vision to create opportunity in the neighborhood. Community Board 7 adopted this vision in the form of its 197A plan: a blueprint for development and planning in Sunset Park. Today jobs at Industry City have grown from 1,900 in 2013 to 7,500 as of 2019. $100M in direct spending has gone to Brooklyn-based businesses. To further support local workers and businesses Industry City and community-based partners launched Innovation Lab in 2016, a neighborhood resource to boost local hiring and entrepreneurship. With a rezoning, capital investments will grow to more than $1B by 2027, adding 1.3 million sq. ft. of new commercial/industrial space and bringing total on-site employment to 15,000, with 8,250 more jobs located off site.
The rezoning is not without controversy - as local community groups have raised their voice against the plans stating it increases gentrification of the area.
