Empire Stores and the Redevelopment of Brooklyn Waterfront
Janes Walk
Led By Navid Maqami, S9 Architecture
The walk will focus on touring Empire Stores (a 2018 MASterworks Award winner for Best Adaptive Reuse!), emblematic of Brooklyn’s transformation from lapsed industrial powerhouse into a growing creative sector. The development re-imagines a vacant warehouse on the DUMBO waterfront as a creative workplace and community hub. The building’s transformation preserves and celebrates its monumental presence on the waterfront, while improving circulation between DUMBO’s urban fabric and Brooklyn Bridge Park.
