What's become of 1000 Dean Street, the old Studebaker building?

Photo: Crain's NY

We were wondering what had become of the renovated space at 1000 Dean Street, the big white building just west of Franklin labeled "Studebaker" on top (from when it was a service station building for the classic car brand in the 1920s). A few years back, Jonathan Butler, co-founder of Brooklyn Flea and Brownstoner, put together a deal with developers BFC Partners and Goldman Sachs to renovate the space and make it available for multi-purpose creative work space.

Christmas season 2014, Brooklyn Flea took residence there, and it was glorious. The massive ground floor of the building served well for a labyrinthian sprawl of Brooklyn's finest artisans. Right down the street from our house. Seemed too good to be true! Alas, come Christmas 2015, it was not repeated. Since then we hadn't seen signs of life.

Glad to see this news from Crain's NY that San Francisco-based co-workspace provider The Vault has signed a 10-year lease for the 20,000 square foot downstairs. Around back of the same building is the already thriving hip beer hall found court Berg'n in the already ridionkulously hip Franklin Avenue scene.