Bed-Stuy Is One Step Closer to Getting a Massive New Development Designed by Sir David Adjaye

A 16-story, 245-foot-high building and a 195-foot, 13-story building would supply commercial space to existing tenants and new organizations, Blondel Pinnock, the president and CEO of the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, told THE CITY in an interview. There will also be a four-story, 120-foot community building focused on current and cultural institutions – including multiple galleries and dance studios.

Dubbed the Restoration Innovation Campus, the renovated space will focus on technology and job training, Pinnock said.

“We’re really looking at being intentional about the type of programs and the type of business that we want to work with, that can come here and truly create not only arts and culture space and a work environment that will create jobs within creative and technological space,” she said.

“We want this to be the tech hub of Central Brooklyn that’s very similar to downtown Brooklyn, that’s very similar to the Navy Yard.”

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