Burlington Stores Inks 32K SF at Brooklyn Navy Yard’s Admirals Row Campus
Why this matters
Retail has become a quiet outperformer. A decade of effectively zero new development has left necessity-driven, grocery-anchored, and Sun Belt strip product with negligible vacancy and re-leasing spreads in the high single digits. Cap rates have compressed in step, and the bid for stabilized portfolios is again broad across REITs, pension funds, and institutional core-plus capital. New York continues to bifurcate sharply: trophy office leasing at record rents, commodity Class B in conversion discussions or court-supervised processes. Rent-stabilized multifamily remains supply-constrained and tightly held. The asset class has effectively rerated as a defensive yield trade rather than a secularly challenged sector.
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Burlington Stores is coming to the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The retailer formerly known as Burlington Coat Factory signed a 31,717-square-foot retail lease at 25 Navy Street , according to city records filed Tuesday evenin…
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