CW Retail - Food Halls Report

Berg’n

W ith Brooklyn home to a number of new food halls and a smattering of projects in the works, selecting a top contender from New York’s hottest and hippest borough wasn’t an easy task. The roughly 40,000 sf Food Hall at Industry City continues to add vendors while that project (and the Sunset Park neighborhood in which it is located) keeps reinventing itself. But ultimately we settled on the industrial chic setting (in its past life it was a Studebaker service station) of Berg’n in Crown Heights.

although the square footage refers only to the actual food and beer hall space itself. Berg’n’s creators are the same folks behind Smorgasburg (the seasonal food hall concept that has been a staple of Brooklyn’s trendy Williamsburg neighborhood for the past few years) as well as Brooklyn Flea (the outdoors flea market concept that now has multiple seasonal locations in the borough). Berg’n combines two of the hottest trends in food retail in one space: the food hall and microbreweries with three primary vendors— Mighty Mighty Quinn’s, Landhaus and Lumpia Shack.

At roughly 9,000 sf, Berg’n is technically one of the smaller food hall venues on our list,

Food Halls of America 2016

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