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Spread across sixteen hulking early-twentieth-century buildings on the Sunset Park waterfront in Brooklyn, Industry City is a vast former industrial complex reborn as a creative campus of workshops, offices, shops and places to eat. Its brick warehouses overlook Upper New York Bay toward the Statue of Liberty and Lower Manhattan, a few miles south of downtown Brooklyn. The site began life as Bush Terminal, the brainchild of the industrialist Irving T. Bush, who built it in the early 1900s as the first multi-tenant industrial complex of its kind in the country, linking factories, warehouses and shipping piers. It thrived as a hub of manufacturing and maritime trade for decades before the long postwar decline of the waterfront left much of it dormant. Beginning around 2013, a private consortium poured hundreds of millions of dollars into reimagining the dormant campus, restoring the handsome old buildings with their high ceilings and generous light and reletting them to a new mix of tenants. Today the 35-acre complex houses hundreds of companies spanning design, technology, media, fashion, robotics and food production, alongside maker studios and small-batch manufacturers. For visitors the draw is the public-facing side of the campus: a sprawling food hall and a cluster of restaurants, breweries and shops, courtyards used for markets and events, and a general air of industrial-chic reinvention. It has become a destination in its own right, particularly at weekends, even as much of the floor space remains given over to working businesses behind the scenes. Reaching it is easy, a block from a subway station that sits a single stop from Brooklyn's main transit hub, with free street parking and a paid lot for those who drive. The waterfront setting, the food and the rotating programme of events make it a relaxed half-day outing, though parts of the wider Sunset Park district around it remain workaday and industrial. Seasonal markets, food festivals and design fairs fill its courtyards through the year, and the complex has drawn comparisons to the developer's earlier conversion of a Manhattan market hall. The blend of working studios with public food and retail gives it an authenticity that polished shopping centres often lack.