Industrie Capital receives TCO for $7M project to convert 168K warehouse to offices in Gowanus

Joseph Hamway’s Industrie Capital Partners, on October 2, was issued a temporary certificate of occupancy for a $7 million project which converted a 168,118-square-foot grocery warehouse to a commercial office building, dubbed Roulston House, at 124 9th Street in Gowanus.

The plans, pre-filed on December 13, 2016, call for a change in use of the 56-foot tall, four-story building. The time from pre-file to TCO was three years and 10 months.

The project is described in the filings as: alteration type 1 filed for change in use and occupancy of existing manufacturing building to commercial offices as shown on plans and specifications submitted accordingly. New egress doors at corridors as shown floor plans. The initial cost as reported in the DOB filing for the work described in this permit application is $7,000,000.

The ground floor of the building is occupied by retail and office space, according to the plans. Floors two through four, which were all previously used as manufacturing space, have been converted to commercial offices. The roof has two accessory passive recreation spaces, accessible from the third and fourth floors.

Morris Adjmi Architects was the architect responsible for the redevelopment, per the Roulston House’s website. The original filing also lists SBLM as the architect.

Reports indicated the connecting two-story warehouse was also converted to office space, however this temporary certificate of occupancy only acknowledges the four-story structure in the assemblage.

The developer, who secured the ground-lease for the assemblage in 2015, has already secured several tenants to occupy the redevelopment, according to reports. Media and marketing firm Mother New York closed on a 61,000-square-foot lease for the top two floors of the four-story building, along with a portion of the building’s 4,000-square-foot roof deck. Sixpoint Brewery and Gutter Bowling have leased 23,000-square-feet and 13,000-square-feet of space on the ground floor, respectively.

The original structure of the building, which has been standing since 1910, originally served as the central warehouse for a chain of groceries owned by Thomas Roulston’s Roulston company, which is the redevelopment’s namesake.

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