About Us

In May 2025, NYCEDC awarded the consortium led by LACI and CIC to operate and design nearly 200,000 square feet of space at BATWorks, which includes $100M investment from the City, generating a $2.6B economic impact and supporting 150 startups over the next 10 years. BATWorks will be located at the Brooklyn Army Terminal (BAT), a 59-acre waterfront campus, which employs 4,000 New Yorkers, and is the home base for 100+ businesses across industries. 

BATWorks is a crucial part of the larger Harbor Climate Collaborative—a joint initiative between NYCEDC, the Trust for Governors Island, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation—to link together tech piloting, tenanting, and programming opportunities across all three organizations and promote climate innovation. Additionally, BATWorks fulfills a key commitment in “Green Economy Action Plan,” a first-of-its-kind plan that lays out a roadmap to growing the city’s green economy, invests in jobs and sectors that help the city combat climate change, and positions New Yorkers to benefit from green-collar jobs.




BATWorks represents the next step in building strong public private partnerships to grow the New York City climate tech ecosystem and catalyze sectors such as clean energy, zero emissions transportation, and building decarbonization.

Our Partners

Founded as an economic development initiative by the City of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power in 2011, LACI works to create an inclusive green economy; scale cleantech startups; transform emerging markets; and partner with a variety of stakeholders, including policymakers, innovators, and market leaders. LACI—which has been recognized as one of the top 10 innovative business incubators in the world by UBI—has helped over 500 portfolio companies raise more than $1B in funding, and generate $344M in revenue, with a long-term economic impact of more than $733M.

Bringing over a decade of leadership and developing a unique model of working with startups, the City of Los Angeles, and other public and private sector partners, LACI will lead piloting of startup innovations at BATWorks as well as advise on related climate programming and host related events focused on founder networking, city and startup exchanges, equitable workforce pathways, and regulatory wayfinding to commercialization. LACI will also develop programming plans at BATWorks on green job training to create equitable workforce pathways for New Yorkers to access green-collar jobs and business development services to accelerate both startup and incumbent climate innovation businesses.

CIC (Cambridge Innovation Center), founded in 1999 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a global provider of innovation infrastructure—workspaces, laboratories, and support services that make it faster and more cost-effective for innovators to launch and scale companies.

Since inception, CIC has hosted more than 10,000 companies and organizations across its campuses in North America, Europe, and Asia, which measure over 1.5M square feet across the globe. Clients based at CIC have raised over $17B in publicly announced fundraising, and the real number is likely significantly higher, given that many of CIC’s largest clients raised private rounds or had private exits.

CIC’s model reduces friction and costs for entrepreneurs by providing:

  • Specialized facilities such as wet labs, clean/controlled environments, prototyping space, flexible office suites

  • Shared services and amenities

  • Community, programming, mentorship, networking and social events, investor introductions, workshops, and curated programs for underserved or climate-tech founders. 

When the BATWorks hub opens in 2028, CIC will apply this experience in Brooklyn, particularly for climate innovation. CIC will design and operate prototyping spaces, laboratories, and workspaces tailored to startups focused on clean energy, resilient infrastructure, decarbonization, and environmental technologies. By lowering barriers, providing services, and building networks across the planet, CIC intends to help founders scale globally, hire locally, and contribute both economic and environmental value to Sunset Park, New York City, and the world.

The City University of New York (CUNY) and New York University (NYU) will both deliver programming at BATWorks, including tie-ins with startup services, workforce development programs, K-12 programs for New Yorkers from all backgrounds, and tech transfer to build a bridge between academic research and commercial industries.

NYCEDC is a mission-driven, nonprofit organization that works for a vibrant, inclusive, and globally competitive economy for all New Yorkers. NYCEDC takes a comprehensive approach, through four main strategies: strengthen confidence in NYC as a great place to do business; grow innovative sectors with a focus on equity; build neighborhoods as places to live, learn, work, and play; and deliver sustainable infrastructure for communities and the city's future economy.