Giant Tesla Outpost Coming to Brooklyn: Report

Image via LIVWRK

RED HOOK, BROOKLYN — Looks like Elon Musk may be expanding his electric-car empire to Brooklyn.

Sources told real-estate website The Real Deal Friday that Musk’s company, Tesla Motors, just signed a lease on the 40,000-square-foot ground floor space at 160 Van Brunt St. on the Red Hook waterfront.

160 Van Brunt, formerly an old industrial building used for ship repairs, was reportedly purchased for $21.5 million by ultra-mod real-estate company LIVWRK in 2014. The building’s brick exterior and window pattern has remained unchanged, but LIVWRK says it has completely renovated its ”lobbies and cores.”

Online, LIVWRK calls the new 160 Van Brunt “the most noticeable building at the entrance to the most vibrant corridor in Red Hook.”

Patch reached out to both LIVWRK and Tesla on Friday afternoon to confirm all this business about a lease. An hour later, we’re still waiting to hear back.

In the meantime, here are some more alleged deets on what would be Tesla’s first outpost in Brooklyn, via The Real Deal:

The deal marks an early step in a push Tesla is making to establish a presence in Brooklyn, sources said. At the moment, there are three small charging stations in the borough – at 66 Rockwell Place in Fort Greene, 75 Smith Street in Downtown Brooklyn and 34 North 6th Street in Williamsburg.

And here’s that unforgettably sexy keynote Elon Musk gave last May on Tesla and fossil fuels and, like, the future of the universe, in case you needed another reason to celebrate Tesla’s big (reported) arrival in Brooklyn.