80 Arts
Affordable Office Space
for Small Arts Organizations

Project Description

A New Home for the Arts in Downtown Brooklyn
Small nonprofit arts and art services groups can now enjoy attractive office space at below-market rents in the new 80 Arts building in the BAM Cultural District. The BAM Local Development Corporation (BAM LDC) is transforming an underutilized former State office building into an affordable comfortable environment where a diverse mix of visual, performing and media arts groups can pursue their missions and collaborate with their neighbors.

This 30,000-square-foot, full-service building features:

• Office spaces range from 400 square feet to 3,000 square feet View floor plan.

• 24-hour access

• Two passenger elevators

• Two conference rooms for meetings and events View floor plan.

• Lunchroom

• Rehearsal space

• Landscaped garden

• On-site security

• Professional building management by BEC New Communities, a local community developer

• Ground floor visitors’ center run by the local merchants association

Located in a Thriving Arts Community
Fort Greene, the historic brownstone neighborhood surrounding 80 Arts, has long been home to many diverse arts organizations, visual artists, performers, musicians and filmmakers. One block away, South Oxford Space, a project of the Alliance of Resident Theaters/New York (ART/NY) provides affordable office and rehearsal space for 20 small member theater companies. Within several blocks of the 80 Arts building are the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Brooklyn Music School, the Mark Morris Dance Center, BRIC Studio, Brooklyn Cable Access Television, Urban Glass and 651 Arts. In addition, the Brooklyn Public Library is planning to build a new state-of-the-art, 150,000-square-foot Visual and Performing Arts Library at the corner of Ashland and Hanson Place.

Area academic institutions include Pratt Institute, Long Island University and Polytechnic University. Nearby is Fort Greene Park, designed by Vaux and Omlstead. Fort Greene is also home to an array of retail stores featuring ethnic clothing, crafts and jewelry, as well as books, antiques, bakeries, gourmet food and excellent restaurants.

Excellent Transportation Access
The 80 Arts office building is easily accessible by all transportation modes. Located at the corner of Hanson Place and South Portland Avenue, 80 Arts is just one block from the Atlantic Avenue station, the City's third major mass transit hub after Grand Central and Penn Stations. The 2, 3, 4, 5, C, G, M, N, Q, R, and W subway lines serve the building, as well as the Long Island Railroad. Nine bus lines are within two blocks of 80 Arts. In addition, the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges and Brooklyn-Queens Expressway are five minutes away by car. View map.

Community-Based Benefits
In addition to restoring and activating an underutilized building, the 80 Arts project offers other community benefits. All tenants will be asked to provide programs and services to the community. Also, the BAM LDC is committed to an aggressive program that will maximize the participation of minority-owned, women-owned and locally based businesses during the building's renovation.

About the BAM Cultural District
The BAM Local Development Corporation (BAM LDC) is a nonprofit organization spearheading the creation of the BAM Cultural District—a vibrant, mixed-use, multicultural arts district in Downtown Brooklyn that will be a resource for the arts, the local community, the borough of Brooklyn and the City as a whole. In addition to the 80 Arts renovation, the BAM LDC will convert currently vacant parking lots and underutilized property into affordable space for nonprofit visual, performing and media arts groups as well as arts-related educational offerings, a mix of housing, public open space to be programmed for arts and recreation, and amenities such as restaurants, cafés, retail and parking.