Empire Stores 2019 ULI Global Award for Excellence Winner
A construction and property development company in New York City, Harco Construction LLC has won a number of prestigious awards from industry-leading organizations. Harco Construction LLC recently garnered multiple honors for its Empire Stores project in Brooklyn’s DUMBO (down under the Manhattan Bridge overpass) neighborhood. One of these honors was a 2019 ULI Global Award for Excellence.
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The project began with several warehouses that had been standing on 1.82 acres of waterfront property since the Civil War era. Harco repurposed these warehouses to create a mixed-use building with 70,277 square feet of retail space and 380,000 square feet of office space. It is also home to multiple restaurants, a beer garden, and a gallery of the Brooklyn Historical Society.
The ULI Global Awards for Excellence have been recognizing “truly superior” development efforts for more than 40 years. In bestowing this award for the work on Empire Stores in 2019, the Global Awards for Excellence jury praised the building for retaining the essential character of its original structure while providing the public with a rooftop extension to Brooklyn Bridge Park and a passageway that connects the neighborhood to the waterfront.
