Monday LEEDoff: 400,000 Square Foot B&H Expansion at Brooklyn Navy Yard

Last week, the Brooklyn Navy Yard industrial park announced that B&H Photo-Video, a Midtown-based photo, DVD, and computer retailer, will increase its operations at the park with a $50 million, 400,000 square foot expansion project. The new seven story building will create 300 new jobs in phone and Internet customer service, as well as provide B&H with increased warehouse space. The company will also have an option to build an additional 200,000 square feet at the site, with construction commencing this summer and completion scheduled for 2009. B&H, which has been a tenant at the park for the past ten years and currently occupies a one-story building, will seek a LEED Silver rating for the project.

I've posted about the Navy Yard's ambitious expansion plans before - back in October, Mayor Bloomberg and Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation (“BNYDC”) President Andrew H. Kimball announced an 89,000 square foot building at Perry Avenue in the Yard (image above), the first of seven structures that will total an additional 400,000 square feet of space. The Perry Avenue project (completion scheduled for 2008) is seeking LEED Silver under USGBC’s Pilot Core and Shell program.

• Photo Retailer Plans 400,000 SF Facility at Brooklyn Navy Yard (CP News)
• Major Expansion at Brooklyn Navy Yard (Brooklyn Eagle)
• Pilot LEED-CS at Navy Yard (gbNYC.com)