Industry City 700 businesses and counting — here’s what’s drawing them to Brooklyn’s most active waterfront campus.

Industry City now counts 700 businesses across its 35-acre Brooklyn waterfront campus — and the number keeps growing

One Community: Industry City’s 700 Businesses and Growing

Artists and designers often arrive at Industry City for the space: natural light, loading access, room to actually make things. What they don’t expect is how quickly they become part of the campus itself.

Designers who started in 500-square-foot workshops have scaled into industrial floors, their businesses growing alongside their footprint. Fabricators, architects, and creative studios cross-pollinate. With 235+ design and art-tagged tenants on campus, the design community at IC has critical mass and a competitive advantage.

The Tech and Robotics Companies That Need More Than WiFi

AI and robotics companies have been finding Industry City organically, not because of a marketing campaign, but because the campus offers something Manhattan glass towers fundamentally cannot: the physical infrastructure to build, test, and operate in the real world.

Heavy floor loads, high ceilings, freight access, and DataVerge — Brooklyn’s only carrier-neutral interconnection facility — mean a robotics company can run hardware prototypes down the hall from an AI software team. IC hosted the Construction Robotics Summit in April 2026, drawing 500+ attendees directly onto campus. Events like that don’t just build awareness. They bring the right companies through the door. Tech and AI tenants get a community of fellow builders, enterprise-grade connectivity, and a campus that signals seriousness to both talent and investors.

The E-Commerce and Industrial Operators Who Need Real Space

Fulfillment, warehousing, and distribution need loading docks, ceiling clearance, freight elevators, and flexible square footage that can scale from 2,000 to 125,000 SF without relocating. Industry City is one of the few places in Brooklyn that can deliver all of it.

What they also get, unexpectedly, is proximity to the broader ecosystem. A logistics operator working out of a 40,000-square-foot warehouse finds themselves neighboring a media production company and a biotech lab. Those aren’t just interesting neighbors, they’re potential clients, collaborators, and referral sources.

The Growing Companies That Use Campus as a Talent Tool

For companies scaling their teams, Industry City has become something recruiters talk about: a campus that makes the pitch easier.. There are over 30 restaurants, eateries, bars, and breweries on-site, four outdoor courtyards, a tenant-only athletic club, and hundreds of event and activations annually. The Landing — an executive lounge and conference center — is available for business owners and C-Suite staff. When a candidate tours the office and sees all of this, the conversation changes.

Companies relocating from Manhattan may also qualify for significant economic incentives, including REAP tax credits of $3,000 per full-time employee annually for up to 12 years, exemption from NYC Commercial Rent Tax, and energy cost savings up to 22.5%.

One Community, 700+ Companies

In the last year we’ve had more amazing tenants come to campus – helping propel us over this 700 mark:

• Square Design
• TV Labs
• Brooklyn Creative Reuse
• Craftsman Ave.
• & more

The throughline across every type of business here is the same: they came for the space and stayed for what the community made possible. The robotics company that toured after a campus event. The artist whose mural became the most-photographed wall on campus. The workshop tenant who outgrew their floor and expanded into an industrial building without changing their address.

That’s what Industry City’s 700 businesses in one place actually looks like.

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If you’re building something that needs room to grow, schedule a tour and see what’s available at Industry City.