Brooklyn’s Navy Yard will place a $20 million center for biotechnology focused on sustainability, according to an announcement Friday from Mayor Eric Adams.
“The way to create jobs in the long term is for businesses to solve some of the most urgent and demanding situations of our time, such as climate change and carbon emissions,” Adams said in a statement.
Adams announced the new investment in an excursion to Navy Yard, which is already home to several sustainable biotech startups, and announced that the 50,000-square-foot “incubator” area will be located on the more sensitive land of Building 303’s urban production center, and open in 2025.
The developers of TomTex, creators of a degradable alternative to synthetic and animal skins, Kintra Fibers, a company that works with environmentally friendly fibers, and Next Step Labs, a black-owned company dedicated to upcoming cosmetics and personal care products, explained their paintings to the general manager of the city, Painting a bigger picture of the pictures that will facilitate the incubator.
“These corporations not only make our city and planet more sustainable, but they provide career opportunities for New York City workers,” Adams said. “This is the future, and it’s happening right here in New York. “
According to Lindsay Greene, president and CEO of Brooklyn Navy Yard, the next few years will be about “building” the center so that it has laboratories with the tools, fabrics and machinery necessary for innovation.
“At the shipyard, we’re looking at the green economy and its other facets,” Greene told the Brooklyn Paper. “It’s a collection area that can accommodate and expand dozens, lots of businesses. “
Greene says marketers will have large spaces of interest, ranging from sustainable biotechnology in the fashion and food industry to creating systems that measure the amount of carbon dioxide emitted through buildings.
“The Navy Yard has been home to economic opportunity and innovation in production,” he said. “The next phase for us is to take that power and take the things that we’re adding like Navy Yard, from a skills connection perspective, and actually reshape that by saying, ‘Let’s really use all that power and focus on developing businesses and industries, solving the big messes related to climate change.
The mayor first shared the news of a global science center in his report on the state of the city in January 2023.
The $20 million investment is from the city’s LifeSci NYC initiative, an allocation directed through NYCEDC.
“This revolutionary industry will use the power of biology to create long-term, sustainable materials, products and industries while accelerating New York’s transition to a green economy,” Andrew Kimball, NYCEDC’s president and chief executive officer, said in a statement.
“There is no better location for this biotech innovation than Brooklyn Navy Yard, which is already home to innovation-driven life sciences corporations and has proven to be a driving force in the biotech industry. “
Jada Camille is from Nashville and recently moved to Brooklyn. She graduated from Lee University in Tennessee with a bachelor’s degree in Digital Media Studies with a minor in journalism. When she’s not writing, you can find her wandering the streets of Brooklyn, calling herself a café. snobbish or watching your favorite convenience shows.