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By: Serach Nissim
An oversized industrial complex in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood is being bulldozed to create a new production studio. As reported by Crain’s NY, the warehouse buildings at 201, 203 and 207 Moore St had formerly served as a bread-making facility and bakery.
Manhattan-based real estate firm Bungalow Projects, which focuses on film and digital content creation, has plans filed to tear down the group of eight connected buildings, per demolition permits approved by the Department of Buildings this week. The firm has plans to build two sprawling production studios in the borough, and this would be one of them.
Per Crain’s, the over-68,000-square-foot structure, located between Bushwick and White streets, is currently shuttered. Till several years ago, it had housed the Brooklyn Bread Lab, a pop-up kitchen for making bread, pasta and pizza dough, mostly for the nearby Williamsburg Hotel. Across the street, the New York Pretzel company is still active.
Bungalow Projects and its partner private investment firm Bain Capital have proposed to raze the buildings and replace it with a six-stage production hub at 215 Moore St. The filings were completed during the summer under a different address, and they outline the creation of a roughly 345,00-square-foot studio. The filing included 220 underground parking spaces. The construction is slated to cost roughly $2 million, per city records. The recent demolition permit names Jerry Adessa as the filing representative.
Adessa is the owner of a New Jersey-based consulting firm that focuses on specialty projects involving high-tech electrical systems such as AV equipment. Crain’s was unable to reach Adessa for comment by press time. Bungalow also did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
Bungalow, founded in 2023 by partners Susi Yu and Travis Feehan, is a real estate investment and development firm specializing in constructing cutting-edge production hubs in New York City, to facilitate episodic, film, and digital content creation. The firm had purchased the Moore Street lots in late 2023 for about $26.7 million from Fortress Investment Group, per property records.
The Moore Street production facility is one of two movie studios that Bungalow’s team is working on. Per Crain’s, the other project is proposed for 145 Wolcott St. in Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood. The partners purchased the development site in the waterfront Brooklyn neighborhood for $34 million in April. That project is slated to include four soundstages across about 230,000 square feet with 200 underground parking spaces, as per information on its website. Each of those four soundstages would span about 18,000 square feet and include outdoor terraces for shoots with views of the Statue of Liberty, the Manhattan skyline and New York Harbor.
“We are excited to continue to expand our studio portfolio with Bain Capital and believe Wolcott, with its market-leading specs and location in Red Hook’s vibrant creative community, will be a great addition to New York’s content production ecosystem,” said Mr. Feehan. “Our goal is to develop best-in-class, purpose-built soundstages in highly amenitized neighborhoods of Brooklyn such as Red Hook and Bushwick, and we believe Wolcott fits well within our portfolio alongside our Moore project,” added Ms. Yu.
