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How You Work: People, Places & Flexible Workspaces
Brooklyn soars
@DumboHeights
Formerly the Watchtower buildings for Jehovah’s Witnesses, co-owners Kushner Companies, Invesco, RFR Realty
and LIVWRK aim to convert Dumbo Heights into ‘an urban campus in the heart of the Brooklyn Tech Triangle’. The
Dumbo neighbourhood is already synonymous with the tech and creative scene in New York, where there are over
500 technology companies within a ten-block radius, and Dumbo Heights is certain to bolster the area’s reputation,
having signed-up Etsy, Frog Design and jeweller Alexis Bittar so far. WeWork also joins the list of tenants, opening
offices this August. The Flexible Office provider has roots in Dumbo, where co-founder Adam Neumann started
its precursor Green Desks in 2008 when the area was in far less demand. Neumann comments, “as members of
a community of creators, we’ve always been attracted to Dumbo and all it represents. It’s great to be back on the
shores where we started, looking out at Manhattan and dreaming of helping to reshape that skyline. The market in
Dumbo is so tight right now, there’s nowhere else to find this kind of space.”
“Dumbo Heights is creating a truly collaborative campus that works hand in hand with each of its
tenants, and WeWork’s approach perfectly complements our partnership’s vision for the property.”
Jared Kushner
, Kushner Properties, New York