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The $2.5 Billion Plan to Turn Brooklyn’s Navy Yard Into a Tech Hub

  • With old buildings transformed, developer sketches the future
  • Aim is 5.1 million more square feet at site of warship maker
Construction on Dock 72 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Construction on Dock 72 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Photographer: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg

America may never recover its glory as a manufacturing powerhouse, but the Brooklyn Navy Yard is doing what it can, transforming itself from a 20th-century warship builder to a 21st-century high-tech hub. 

Now it’s about to unveil a $2.5 billion building plan that would more than quadruple its current workforce.