Soho Retailer’s Operation Heads to BK Navy Yard

The one-million square-foot Building 77 project is the largest development in the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s history.

NEW YORK CITY—Lafayette 148 New York, a locally-based fashion brand, has decided to  relocate its 200-person headquarters and other Soho-based operations to the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The firm has leased 68,000 square feet in the Navy Yard’s Building 77. No brokers were involved in the transaction.

The brand’s new site will be about the same size as its existing space at 148 Lafayette St., where the company was founded 20 years ago. Its relocation is slated to bring jobs to the Yard that will range from senior level executives to designers and cut and sew workers. The company will retain a presence in Manhattan with its concept store at the Soho location.