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Sunset Park in South Brooklyn offers an impressive array of early-twentieth-century industrial buildings, including a pair of massive reinforced-concrete warehouses that were constructed in anticipation of America's entry into World War I. Collectively known as the U.S. Navy Fleet Supply Base, one of the buildings was eventually sold to a private developer, Salmar, whose vision for the 1.2 million-square-foot redevelopment included retail, office and light industrial uses spread across the building's eight sprawling floors. Intent on capitalizing on the federal and state historic rehabilitation tax credit programs, Salmar engaged Gregory Dietrich Preservation to conduct a feasibility study, get the property listed on the National Register of Historic Places, complete the three-part federal historic tax credit application, and provide ongoing input to its design team. More recently, GDP was brought back to assist Salmar's tenant, Brooklyn Grange, in securing post-certification approvals for the introduction of a large-scale rooftop farm, greenhouse and dining hall. In 2016, the Brooklyn-Queens Chapter of the American Institute of Architects awarded the project its Adaptive Reuse/Historic Preservation Merit Award.