Bushwick to get two large new rock clubs in 2023, '24

The team behind Brooklyn Made has acquired two adjacent buildings with the aim to build more live music venues

Makes (Courtesy Brooklyn Made)

Bushwick is about to get a little louder.

The team that opened the luxe rock club Brooklyn Made last September has announced that they’ve acquired two additional buildings across the street, with plans to expand their live music empire.

“It’s all going to be the same type of programming we’ve had going on at Brooklyn Made already,” Brooklyn Made Presents president and CEO Anthony Makes tells Brooklyn Magazine. “A focus on rock and roll, and all types of stuff.”

Toward that end, Brooklyn Made Presents has purchased two shuttered warehouses adjacent to Brooklyn Made, at 427 Troutman Street and 444 Jefferson Street, that they’ll turn into a midsize 1200-1500 capacity venue, and a larger 2000-2500 capacity space. The target opening date for the latter room is September of 2023, with the mid-sized venue slated for March of 2024.

When Brooklyn Made opened its doors in late September, it was greeted with enthusiasm by the press. The 500-seat club opened as a spanking-new, multi-million dollar concert venue, cocktail bar and coffee house, with elite perks for performers (like a rooftop apartment and swimming pool). The new venues will also have similar bells and whistles, according to Makes. Like Brooklyn Made, the lighting design will be by Jeremy Roth (who has worked with Wilco, Nathaniel Rateliff, Mazzy Star), and sound by D&B Audiotechnik. “They’re the creative guys on that whole front,” says Makes.

The opening of Brooklyn Made also promised to herald a return to live music in a post-Covid New York. However, the Omicron variant had other plans, forcing the venue to go dark for the last half of December and all of January, according to Makes. “Now it’s going great,” he says. “We’re full steam ahead, four five shows a week, all well attended.”

The two new venues will be connected by a new bar and lounge that has yet to be built, offering up the potential to have two shows going concurrently, with people able to pass from one venue to the other. Makes says the plan is to gut out the entire cellar underneath the bigger venue, “and that’s going to be a gigantic commune for the artists to hang out there.”

As for what the new venues will be called, they don’t know yet. “Happy to take submissions,” says Makes. “But we have time to figure it out.”