Hush Street is tracking what’s changing in Sunset Park — the mile-plus stretch of Brooklyn’s Upper New York Bay waterfront that was, for more than a century, one of the busiest working ports in the country. Bush Terminal, the Brooklyn Army Terminal, and the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal all opened here between 1890 and 1919 to move freight, not people.
Much of the neighborhood’s development story is still about what happens inside those piers and warehouses today. In 2020, that story looked different: Jamestown’s plan to add 3.3 million square feet to Industry City collapsed under political and community opposition, effectively ending a decade-long push to rezone the waterfront for private ground-up growth.
What replaced it wasn’t towers. It’s public-sector-led modernization of the neighborhood’s existing industrial campuses, driven by the city’s own economic development corporation, running alongside Industry City’s own private ownership group and a fast-growing hospital system next door.
NYCEDC now brands roughly 200 acres of that waterfront as the “Sunset Park District” — four campuses it’s actively investing in. What follows is the reporting behind that shift: an offshore-wind port fighting a federal shutdown order, a WWII army terminal nearly full again, a soundstage hub chasing production dollars, and new housing rising both on the waterfront and along 8th Avenue after a long, stalled decade. Where a claim comes from a government press release or company statement rather than independent reporting, we say so.
| Project | Location | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1Industry City | 220 36th Street | Operating / Expanding |
| 2South Brooklyn Marine Terminal | 269 37th Street | Under Construction |
| 3Brooklyn Army Terminal | 140 58th Street | ~90% Leased |
| 4MADE Bush Terminal | 1st Avenue & 42nd Street | Phase One Complete |
| 5Steiner Studios Sunset Park | Bush Terminal | Under Construction |
| 6NYU Langone Hospital–Brooklyn | 150 55th Street | Multi-Project Expansion |
| 7One Sunset (737 4th Avenue) | 737 4th Avenue | Completed / Leasing |
| 86208 8th Avenue | 6208 8th Ave. | Under Construction |
The Projects Reshaping Sunset Park’s Working Waterfront
Seven anchors, from an offshore-wind port fighting a federal shutdown order to the neighborhood’s first new housing in years.
1
Industry City
A Six-Million-Square-Foot Complex, Without the Rezoning
Industry City is the anchor most people mean when they say “Sunset Park waterfront” — 35 acres and 16 former shipping and manufacturing buildings, redeveloped since 2013 into offices, studios, retail, and food halls. In 2017, Jamestown proposed a rezoning that would have added 3.3 million square feet to the complex, pitched as thousands of new jobs.
The plan died in 2020. Political opposition — led in part by then-Council Member Carlos Menchaca, whose district included the site — combined with community groups’ fears that the upzoning would accelerate displacement in a neighborhood already under gentrification pressure. Jamestown withdrew the application rather than force a losing City Council vote.
650 Businesses and Counting
Industry City kept growing anyway, just without the extra 3.3 million square feet. Ownership says the complex has surpassed 650 businesses and continues adding tech tenants to a roster that already spans food production, design, retail, and creative studios, backed by more than $450 million in private infrastructure improvements since the 2013 acquisition. It’s a real second act: the neighborhood’s most contested development fight of the last decade didn’t kill the project, it just capped its size.
Sources: THE CITY; Industry City; CoStar
2
South Brooklyn Marine Terminal
Building America’s Biggest Offshore Wind Port
Equinor broke ground in June 2024 on an $861 million transformation of the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal: 73 acres of working port, more than 60 of them staging area — the largest in the country — being rebuilt to assemble, stage, and maintain turbine towers, blades, and components for offshore wind. A new substation and subsea cable will carry power from the 810-megawatt Empire Wind 1 project into the city’s grid at the Gowanus substation, enough electricity for roughly 500,000 homes.
The project is a real jobs commitment, not just a climate one: more than 1,000 union construction jobs and apprenticeships, with hiring priority for public-housing residents, veterans, and Sunset Park residents, backed by a $5 million workforce fund. The build itself is low-emissions — hybrid crew-transfer vessels, solar power, EV charging — which Equinor has framed as a model for how a working port modernizes rather than disappears.
A Federal Shutdown, Twice
This isn’t a project moving on a straight line. On April 16, 2025, the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management ordered an immediate stop to construction — more than 30% complete at the time — as part of the Trump administration’s broader halt on offshore wind. Governor Hochul said “countless conversations” with Equinor and White House officials led BOEM to lift the order a month later, on May 19, 2025.
It happened again. On December 22, 2025, the Department of the Interior halted five East Coast wind projects, including this one, citing national-security concerns. A federal judge, Carl J. Nichols, issued a preliminary injunction on January 15, 2026, allowing construction to resume — but the underlying legal fight over the project’s federal approvals is still active, not resolved. Worth noting for anyone confused by the name: this is not the separate, unrelated $3.5 billion “Brooklyn Marine Terminal” megaproject across the borough in Red Hook — a different site, different agency task force, different plan entirely.
Work Kept Moving After the Injunction
Since the injunction, the physical build has advanced steadily: offshore foundation installation wrapped in fall 2025, an offshore substation went in during early 2026, and by early 2026 the project was more than 60% complete. The 54-turbine array (Vestas 15-megawatt units) is set to go in using the Maersk Viridis, a dedicated turbine-installation vessel delivered in February 2026 and formally named in March. Equinor is targeting first power by late 2026, with full commissioning in 2027 — timelines that assume the legal fight stays resolved in the project’s favor.
Equinor’s own video walks through the build:
Sources: Canary Media; Utility Dive; CNBC; Offshore Wind (construction progress, turbine vessel)
3
Brooklyn Army Terminal
From World War II Supply Base to Nearly-Full Industrial Campus
Cass Gilbert designed the Brooklyn Army Terminal, which opened in 1918-19 and became, through World War II, the largest military supply base in the United States — more than 3 million soldiers and 37 million tons of supplies moved through its 95 acres before the Army closed it in the 1970s. NYCEDC has spent decades since redeveloping the complex into leasable industrial and manufacturing space.
That work is close to finished. Four new tenants leased a combined 58,000 square feet in May 2026, which NYCEDC says pushes the roughly 4-million-square-foot campus to nearly 90% occupied — a real milestone for a building whose scale once made it feel more like a monument to disuse than an active jobs site.
A $100 Million Bet on the Last Empty Floors
The remaining work is concentrated in two buildings. Building A’s final renovation phase — roughly 300,000 square feet, in design and targeted to open in 2026 — will house a planned Climate Innovation Hub. Separately, NYCEDC has committed $100 million to convert 500,000 square feet of the campus’s remaining unoccupied space into affordable industrial space, with Building C next in line to be reimagined for manufacturing, light industrial, and public-serving uses.
Sources: The Real Deal; Wikipedia; Brooklyn Army Terminal
4
MADE Bush Terminal
Manufacturers, Artisans, Designers, Entrepreneurs
MADE — the acronym is deliberate — is NYCEDC’s rebuild of Bush Terminal’s northern buildings into modern industrial space. Building A alone delivers 140,000 square feet of leasable manufacturing space, 30,000 square feet of public gathering and event space, and 5 acres of surrounding public realm. NYCEDC projects the building will support 165 permanent jobs and generate $2.6 billion in economic impact over 30 years — on top of the nearly $450 million it has already invested sitewide, with more than $300 million more in the pipeline.
New Tenants and a New Public Pier
MADE’s first phase is leasing up: PELLE, Aripack, and MushLume signed new leases in late 2025, together taking more than 20,000 square feet — Aripack relocating from East New York, MushLume a mycelium-based sustainable lighting studio. NYCEDC has also broken ground on Pier 6, adding 5 acres of new waterfront community space, and says Building C is next in line for redevelopment.
Sources: Commercial Observer; New York YIMBY
Building A’s waterfront facade, drive-in loading docks included:
5
Steiner Studios Sunset Park
A Second Steiner Campus, This Time on Bush Terminal
This is a different project from the Steiner Studios campus Hush Street already covers at the Brooklyn Navy Yard — a separate, second Steiner facility NYCEDC selected in 2020 to build on Bush Terminal, elsewhere in Sunset Park. The plan: $320 million for eight new soundstages, a gut-renovation of two historic Bush Terminal buildings, and a new parking facility, projected to support 2,200 industry jobs and 1,800 construction jobs. As part of the deal, Steiner will also complete the adjacent Bush Terminal Piers Park, including a new community-designed playground and $25,000 a year in ongoing recreational programming funding.
Competing for Hollywood’s New York Money
Sunset Park’s bet is one of several happening at once across the city: Echelon Studios has closed $304 million in financing for two Brooklyn campuses totaling roughly 600,000 square feet, and East End Studios opened its Sunnyside campus in October 2025 with hundreds of permanent jobs. Steiner’s Sunset Park hub is still under construction, with no confirmed opening date as of this writing — a real project, just not yet a finished one.
Sources: SHOOTonline; Deadline; Hoodline
6
NYU Langone Hospital–Brooklyn
A Former Lutheran Hospital Becomes an Expansion Campus
NYU Langone absorbed the former Lutheran Medical Center in 2015-16, renaming it NYU Langone Hospital–Brooklyn. In the decade since, the hospital has become the anchor of a steadily growing institutional footprint in Sunset Park — less a single project than a running pattern of expansion, building purchase, and service growth.
New Beds, New Buildings, New Services
The most visible piece is a 120,000-square-foot ambulatory care center, opening directly across the street from the hospital in fall 2026, that will consolidate ambulatory surgery, physician practices, the Perlmutter Cancer Center, and the Family Health Centers at NYU Langone under one roof. In July 2026, the system purchased an office building it already occupied for $29.5 million. NYU Langone has also opened Brooklyn’s first bone marrow transplant beds at the hospital and expanded its cardiac services — the kind of incremental clinical growth that doesn’t make a single headline but adds up to a real, ongoing capital commitment to the neighborhood.
Sources: NYU Langone Health; Crain’s New York Business; BKReader
7
One Sunset (737 4th Avenue)
One of the Few Buildings a Decade of Rezoning Fights Actually Produced
One Sunset is a rare thing on this list: a private, ground-up residential project that actually went through Sunset Park’s contested land-use politics and came out the other side. City Council approved the rezoning unanimously in 2021, after what The Real Deal called a genuine “political gauntlet.” Construction financing followed in March 2024 — a $121 million package, with Canyon Partners Real Estate and JPMorgan providing a $96 million construction loan and Tribeca Investment Group adding $25 million in preferred equity, against a roughly $143 million total project cost. The building topped out in September 2024 and finished construction in the first quarter of 2026.
48 Affordable Homes at Sunset Park’s Lowest Average AMI in Years
Of the building’s 187 units, 48 — 25% of the total — are permanently affordable, averaging 50% of area median income, among the lowest average AMI levels achieved anywhere in Brooklyn in the past five years. A Community Benefits Agreement with Fifth Avenue Committee and other local organizations attaches local-hiring and M/WBE-contracting commitments to the project, and the building includes New York City’s first indoor bike-storage hub, built with micromobility partner Oonee.
Sources: The Real Deal; New York YIMBY; Ailanthus
8
A Long-Stalled Site Is Finally Rising as a 28-Story Tower
A Site That Sat on the Market for Years
This assemblage, branded Eighth Avenue Center, has a long history of false starts. Plans advanced in 2018 for a smaller project — roughly 250 units, with 50 set aside as affordable — before the site’s then-owners, having struggled through the rezoning process, put the roughly 300,000-buildable-square-foot Opportunity Zone parcel on the market for $150 million in 2019.
The site changed hands and the plan grew substantially: the current joint venture between Watermark Capital and Rubin Equities is now building 497 units — roughly double the earlier proposal — plus 100,000 square feet of retail across 28 stories, with a portion of the units reserved as affordable.
One of the Largest Towers in the Neighborhood
At 497 units, this is a larger residential building than anything else in this Tracker, including One Sunset. It sits a few blocks from the Brooklyn Army Terminal and Bush Terminal waterfront campuses, part of the same broader wave of investment reshaping Sunset Park’s 8th Avenue corridor and waterfront simultaneously. YIMBY’s May 2026 check-in found construction visibly progressing, with completion expected in late 2027.
Sources: New York YIMBY; The Real Deal; Traded.co
What We’re Watching Next
NYCEDC counts a fourth campus in its “Sunset Park District” — the Brooklyn Wholesale Meat Market — that hasn’t yet produced enough public project-level detail to report on directly; we’ll add it once it does. Bush Terminal Piers Park, the waterfront public park adjacent to both MADE and the Steiner soundstage build, remains an operating amenity rather than a construction story for now. And a modest but real housing project, an 8-story mixed-use building at 6414 8th Avenue, is nearing completion near the N/W trains — small next to 6208 8th Avenue’s 497 units, but part of the same slow return of ground-up building the neighborhood saw largely disappear after 2020.
Capital & Transactions
Money Moving in Sunset Park
A curated look at recent property sales and financing that help explain who’s buying, building, and lending in Sunset Park right now. Drawn from New York City’s public ACRIS property records, not a complete log of every filing — we include only transactions that say something real about the neighborhood’s direction, and leave out routine paperwork, internal transfers, and deals we can’t explain responsibly.
6025 6th AvenueJun. 2026
This Tracker already covers NYU Langone’s July 2026 purchase of an office building it already occupied (Section 6, above) but doesn’t name the address, amount, or seller. This ACRIS record supplies all three — a 13,700 sq ft commercial condo bought for $29.5M from an entity tied to Leon Chen.
236 39th StreetJul. 2026
A clean, single-property sale of an active warehouse building (14,878 sq ft, built 1998, 3 loading docks) in the same working-waterfront district as Industry City, the Brooklyn Army Terminal, and MADE Bush Terminal — the kind of ownership turnover that signals active investor interest in Sunset Park’s industrial corridor.
Source: New York City’s public ACRIS property records. This module is reviewed and curated by Hush Street editors, not an automated feed, and will be updated as new, meaningful filings are confirmed.
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By Hush Street Editorial Updated Built from city filings and published reporting. About Hush Street
