Industry returns as high-tech, small scale shops in New York

Submitted by Emergent Urbanism on Fri, 07/09/2010 - 20:47
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In Brooklyn, there are several examples of this industry-as-community-builder approach. The Greenpoint Manufacturing and Design Center started rescuing and rehabilitating factories in 1992. The center is a cluster of five old industrial buildings, housing more than 100 businesses and about 500 workers, including furniture makers, fish processors, and a guy who fabricates dinosaur armatures for the American Museum of Natural History. When I ask about community, the GMDC’s CEO, Brian T. Coleman, shows me a map that demonstrates the high percentage of people who work in its buildings and also live nearby. “Our model works,” Coleman says. “It’s not mass production. But it’s production.”

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