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SPECIAL REPORT THE FOOD BUSINESS
HIGH AGRICULTURE:
Ben Flanner and
Anastasia Cole Plakias of
Brooklyn Grange work the
soil at their rooftop farm
in the Navy Yard.
MOVABLE FEAST
Subsidies,
tax breaks
pay off
for Bronx
Last bastion of large,
accessible space in the
city turns southern
nabes into grub hub
BY LISA FICKENSCHER
URBAN GOTHIC
Got chard?
buck ennis
With millions in
seed funds, Gotham
farmers sprout cash
crops on rooftops
and in warehouses
BY ADRIANNE PASQUARELLI
When Whole Foods debuts its longawaited Brooklyn location in the
Gowanus neighborhood this year, it
will boast another first—a commercialscale rooftop farm. The 20,000square-foot greenhouse facility, operat-
ed by local grower Gotham Greens,
will produce the Butterhead lettuce,
tomatoes and herbs that consumers will
find downstairs in the vegetable aisle.
“Our climate-controlled greenhouse can grow 365 days of the year,”
said Gotham Greens Chief Executive
See URBAN FARMS on Page 18
Online grocer FreshDirect may be the
highest-profile business relocating to
the Bronx, but it will have plenty of
company when it finally opens its
headquarters there in 2016. The borough has become a magnet for food
businesses, which is helping to boost
growth and economic development.
The Bronx has long been home to
the Hunts Point Food Distribution
Center, the largest in the world, selling
$5 billion worth of meat, fish and produce annually. But the
food businesses out- GROW THIS
side the center are INDUSTRY
EDITORIAL,
now
proliferating, PAGE 10
generating substantial
private and public investment and
thousands of jobs in a borough known
for its high crime and poverty statistics.
Over the next couple of years, at least a
dozen businesses will move to the borough or expand their existing facilities.
“We wouldn’t have invested $65
million in the South Bronx if we
didn’t plan on growing more,” said
Simon Bergson, chief executive of
Manhattan Beer Distributors, which
delivers Corona and other big-name
brands to metropolitan-area grocers,
bars and restaurants.
His company had already expanded in May to a 19-acre facility just a few
hundred yards away from its former
home in Hunts Point. And his old digs
will soon have a new tenant: Fairway
Market, which is building a 200,000square-foot warehouse and bakery.
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