BROOKLYN: Domino Sugar Plant To Be Transformed Into An Adaptive Use Office Building

WILLIAMSBURG (BROOKLYN) NYC: The former Domino Sugar plant, an 1865 designated landmark is becoming a dramatic glass-wrapped building within the building facade. 

 The one of a kind, 460,000 square-foot office block, is the centerpiece of a $3 billion Domino site complex of apartments, stores, offices and park.

The Refinery, as it’s called is the product of developer Jed Walentas' Two Trees company and it has just completed a $250 million restoration and interior glass building re-imagining.

Company literature says Mr. Walentas’ father, David Walentas, created the neighborhood now called DUMBO mostly on his own.

Still to come is a 27,000 square-foot, glass-covered penthouse dome with spectacular river and skyline views will rise on the roof.

The Landmarks Preservation Commission approved the proposal in 2017 for the property.

The Refinery is located next to the Domino Park esplanade on the north side of the Williamsburg Bridge and is bound by Kent Avenue to the east, River Street to the west, South 2nd Street to the north, and South 3rd Street to the south.

Nothing will remain of the industrial past except the 15-story brick facade and the big Domino sign.

The structure is fronted by a 250-feet-tall, 150-year-old smokestack

The office building is inserted inside the brick exterior, its glass-walls are set back 15 feet from the facade.

Amenities will include a shared amenities floor with a fitness center, ground-floor retail, a three-story atrium lobby and operable windows

Sugar was refined there until Domino moved to Yonkers in 2004  

Below is what the refinery looked like before construction activity began.