Officials celebrated the grand opening of Brooklyn Made’s second storefront at City Point with a ceremonial ribbon-cutting on Friday, June 7.
Like its original store in Industry City, which opened in May 2023, the Downtown Brooklyn location features products from Brooklyn makers and entrepreneurs celebrating the borough’s rich diversity.
Brooklyn Made was spearheaded by the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce to promote and support local small minority-owned and/or women-owned businesses across Kings County.
Randy Peers, president and CEO of the Chamber, explained that the stores are about Brooklyn’s independent makers and designers, and are focused on exposing them to audiences they might not normally interact with.
“We did a lot of work in the field in communities, in neighborhoods, literally knocking on doors and meeting with small business owners, meeting makers and designers and just the sheer number of creative people that were producing things in some cases at their kitchen tables,” Peers told Brooklyn Paper.
Because of the success of the first store in Industry City, the business-boosting group jumped at opening a second location in City Point.
Besides products by Brooklyn-based makers, the City Point locale also features merchandise from makers in El Salvador, Singapore, Pakistan and Turkey, in a section dubbed, “Brooklyn Goes Global.”
“If you look at El Salvador, for example, these bags are made by single moms in El Salvador out of recycled plastic,” Peers said. “We’re really proud of this new element. We’re really excited to be able to showcase some of our international partners. Brooklyn is an international brand, so it makes a lot of sense.”
Krissy Moore, senior vice president of Community Relations for the Northeast region at Wells Fargo, told Brooklyn Paper that the bank was the main philanthropic supporter of the first Brooklyn Made Store in Industry City. Wells Fargo supported the City point location with a $250,000…
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