What is Morgantown?

In that pipeline is 13 Grattan St, which sits across the street from an exit on the L train at the corner of Bogart Street, the de facto main drag of an area that’s become known as Morgantown—either because it’s on the Morgan Street stop on the L train, or because nobody could agree on whether it’s part of Bushwick or Williamsburg. Rialto Real Estate is preparing to break ground on the 40k SF office and retail building before the end of this month. Rialto’s Ted Hovivian tells us he’s already had one tech tenant interested in taking the whole building, but “in addition to wanting my left arm and my right arm, he also wanted my first born,” so the deal was not to be. Whoever occupies it, Ted says the glass and steel building designed by Gene Kaufman will be “completely contrary to anything in the neighborhood right now.” Based on the rendering he sent us, we concur.