Wildflower Ltd/Bjarke Ingels Group
Wildflower Ltd., a frequent lessor to Amazon and the company behind Robert De Niro's Wildflower Studios project in Queens, has purchased an industrial site in the South Bronx for about $11 million.
Wildflower bought the adjacent properties at 1340 Lafayette Ave., 749 Whittier St. and 745 Whittier St. in Hunts Point from a Long Island-based limited liability company, which had bought the sites for about $2.3 million in 2003, according to sources and property records. The lots span 55,000 square feet and include 110,000 buildable square feet.
Wildflower Managing Partner Adam Gordon declined to get into the specifics of the company's plans for the Bronx site, but he indicated that the firm could use it for a logistics facility, noting that Wildflower “continues to be very active in the logistics business” and that Hunts Point is “one of the most desirable logistics locations in serving New York City.”