Focal Point Beer Company, a popular Long Island City-based craft brewery, is opening its second location and taking 5,000 square feet of retail space at 420 Carroll Street, a luxury residential building in Brooklyn’s Gowanus neighborhood, owner and developer the Domain Companies. The new location will feature a taproom, a full dine-in restaurant, and a large outdoor seating area overlooking the Gowanus Canal.

A Gowanus waterfront development is about to get three new retail tenants. Focal Point Brewery and wine shop BYOB Naturale Wine & Spirits have signed 10-year leases at Domain Companies’ 420 Carroll St. The brewery, which operates a production facility and taproom in Long Island City, will occupy a 5,000-square-foot space. This location will offer a taproom, a dine-in restaurant and a waterfront outdoor seating area. BYOB Naturale Wine & Spirit, which is led by restaurateur Alessandro Trezza, will be in an 800-square-foot space. They will be joined by a community-focused architecture and design hub, Brooklyn Builders Studio, which leased a 1,700-square-foot space. Brooklyn Builders Studio will offer children and families a hands-on learning environment that encourages them to look into architecture, innovative problem-solving, and placemaking.

Long Island City just got a new hotel. Belvilla, a European short-term rental and hospitality brand, has signed a 15-year, 50,000-square-foot lease for a 72-unit hotel at 45-06 Pearson St. in the Queens neighborhood. The hotel is called Belvilla District 6 and opened recently. Igloo's Adam Joly represented Prism and the property's ownership group, led by Long Island City-based Vorea Group, in the deal.

Who is 'Us?' Sushi is right on the name, but this is not a conventional Japanese restaurant, even by modern standards of gold leaf and foie gras as nigiri garnish. It is the latest from Veho Hospitality Group, the restaurant company started by Vilexis and Danny Cruz, who also created Tacos Del Cartel and the nearby Taquerias Carnalito, the fast-casual taco stand.

The Shop Workspace, a premier, artfully-designed coworking space with locations across the country, has announced a new location in South Market, New Orleans, will open in Spring 2026. The Shop SOMA is the coworking space’s second location in New Orleans, representing a return to the city following national expansion in Brooklyn and Salt Lake City.

The Shop at the CAC, a coworking space in the Contemporary Arts Center on Camp Street, is expanding to a second location in the nearby South Market district, a mixed-use neighborhood with apartments, condos, restaurants and service-oriented retailers on the edge of the Central Business District. The new location — The Shop SOMA — is set to open later this spring on the ground floor of The Standard, a luxury condominium complex on South Rampart Street. It will have a mix of small private offices, dedicated desks and shared workspaces, along with conference rooms, a kitchen and access to amenities like printers and fax machines.

Thanks to a 2021 rezoning expected to create 9,000 new apartments, paired with an environmental clean-up of the long-contaminated canal, Gowanus is booming. More than 140 residential buildings are planned for the neighborhood, and several are already completed, attracting individuals and families seeking amenity-rich buildings and easy access to Manhattan and other parts of the borough, while being relatively more affordable than neighboring Carroll Gardens and Park Slope. At the center of the community is the Gowanus Canal, which, as its federally-mandated Superfund cleanup continues, is expected to become a new waterfront park, flanked by a promenade, retail, and recreational space. As development continues to reshape the neighborhood, we’re taking a look at the best new rental projects in Gowanus.

For developers of multiunit high-rises, where space is at a premium, the tidy footprint of the technology is particularly appealing, said Jason Hill of The Domain Companies, the developer behind 420 Carroll Street in Brooklyn, a new, all-electric, high-end apartment building. (In New York City, Local Law 97, which prohibits gas line installations in most new residential high-rises, went into effect this year.)

The kitchens feature ranges set into custom-made cabinetry with elements borrowed from old-fashioned Shaker furniture, which provides a warmer, almost suburban look, said Mr. Hill. It also sets them apart from the spare, flat laminate cabinets found in most apartments.

Three new retailers have recently opened at Jasper, bringing the total number to seven retailers at the mixed-use development, located at 2-33 50th Ave. in the Hunters Point section of Long Island City. The retailers, Matsuzuki Sakura, Frankie’s Brooklyn Pizza and Stretchlab, join Club Pilates, Glowbar, Dumbo Market and Kidstrong.