As Jared Kushner closes his deal for several Watchtower properties in DUMBO, the Brooklyn Eagle reports on the group’s plan move their operations upstate.
The Jehovah’s Witnesses have been in the Brooklyn Heights area since 1908 and their headquarters here is referred to as “Brooklyn Bethel”.
Brooklyn Eagle: The Brooklyn market is “super-hot” and “competition would be huge” for the remaining Watchtower properties, real estate executives told the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
Richard Devine, chairman of the Witnesses’ construction project committee, gave no hints about the religious organization’s timetable for selling the Brooklyn holdings but did provide addresses.
