Built like a tech startup incubator and co-working space, the 630 Flushing offers nascent food and beverage companies the opportunity grow and perfect their craft and grow at an affordable cost. While the old Pfizer incubator is still in its transition stage, the 8-storeies, 600,000 sq foot building will soon host a farmers’ market, a rooftop farm and more artisans. This building, located at the Williamsburg and Bedford Stuyvesant border, has become a hub of food and beverage production and houses some of BK’s top artisans, including McClure’s Pickles, Mama O’s Kimchi, Brooklyn Soda Works and Kelvin Soda Slush, which makes adult sodas ( ). Since 2012, artisans have been operating from 630 Flushing Ave, a building colloquially known as the Pfizer factory due its legacy as a former pharmaceuticals processing plant that now serves as a food incubator. Space is limited in Brooklyn, but as always necessity is the mother of all inventions. Fostered by food incubators, a powerful ecosystem and an obsessive focus on quality, this epicurean revolution is a reality, propelling such iconic and new artisan brands at the forefront, like Mast Brothers, Monsieur Singh and Brooklyn Spice Company. From microbreweries and distilleries to food startups, artisan coffee and chocolate factories, BK is becoming one of America’s top food and beverage epicenter.
