Fashion is The Big News in Sunset Park This Week

 

Fashion was  the big news this week in Sunset Park as they officially opened Liberty View Industrial Plaza. It seems to have been all over the press. The plans had been in the air for months when the City put up some $3.5 million in our taxpayer money to make it happen. The center of the fashion industry in NYC will shift from Manhattan to Sunset Park. Liberty will give over some 160,000 square feet of space for fashion development. Along with all this development will come some additional 300 jobs into the area and adds to the wave of gentrification that has accelerated in the neighborhood especially in the last couple off years. To read more you can visit the stories at the following websites, Brooklyn Eagle, Industryweek.com, bisnow.com, digital.nyc, topix.com and the Daily News.

 

 

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Is Sunset Park slated to become a New York Fashion Center?

Is Sunset Park slated to become a New York Fashion Center? If you believe a blog piece just written by Brady Dale at his blog Tchnically that appears to be the case. Following up on a piece in The Epoch Times on plans by Manufacture New York to open up a fashion design incubator at a facility in Sunset Park that is slated to open soon. Sunset Park has always been a center of sweat shops that have opened in the neighborhood since the Chinese moved in, so in a sense we have always had part of the fashion industry here. The plan though is to make Sunset Park a design center to supplement 7th Avenue in Manhattan. We will have to see what develops. As Sunset park's Bush terminal and Industry City become centers of all types of trendy businesses that encompass everything from film production to high end electronics we will continue to see more economic development in Sunset park that will also accelerate the gentrification process that is going on in the neighborhood as the people working in these enterprises decide to move into the neighborhood to be close to their work...