Gowanus Waterfront at 420 Carroll Lands Brewery, Wine Shop, and Design Studio

Focal Point Beer Company, the Long Island City craft brewery known for taproom events and small-batch releases, signed a 5,000-square-foot lease at 420 Carroll Street on the Gowanus waterfront, its second location and the largest of three ground-floor deals announced by developer Domain Companies. The new space will include a taproom, a full dine-in restaurant, and outdoor seating overlooking the Gowanus Canal, bringing the kind of canal-side pint setup that's been conspicuously absent from this stretch of Brooklyn.

The Long Island City Partnership has listed Focal Point as an active community venue, so the expectation is that the Gowanus outpost follows the same community-programming playbook rather than operating as a quiet production facility tucked behind a tap wall.

Focal Point's deal is the headline grab, but Domain Companies signed two additional leases at 420 Carroll that round out the ground-floor tenant mix. BYOB Naturale Wine & Spirits, led by restaurateur Alessandro Trezza, will bring a curated selection of Italian natural wines and artisanal spirits to the building. Brooklyn Builders Studio, a family-focused architecture and design maker studio founded by Brooke Holiday, takes 1,700 square feet for classes, camps, hands-on projects, and design experiences aimed at kids. Together the three leases total 7,500 square feet, brokered by Adam Joly of Igloo.

"Each concept is authentic and compelling in its own way, and together we're creating a vibrant waterfront destination that feels genuinely rooted in the neighborhood," Joly said.

Holiday positioned her studio's Gowanus location as a natural fit given the neighborhood's industrial-creative history. "Gowanus is a neighborhood rich in art, design and making, and it's an exciting home for our flagship space," she said. "With Brooklyn Builders Studio, we're shaping an environment where young designers work with sustainable materials, test ideas, explore the built world, and develop confidence in creative risk-taking."

The three tenants join an existing roster at 420 Carroll that includes Gowanus Marketplace, pottery studio Hey Clay, and coworking space The Shop. The building itself is a two-tower, 360-unit project with a 21-story and a 16-story tower, designed by FXCollaborative with interiors by Alan Mainer Studios, and roughly 27,000 square feet of total commercial space. It was one of the first developments to open following the 2021 Gowanus rezoning.

No opening timelines have been announced for any of the three incoming tenants.