Lakewood’s supercharged business boom hits a worker shortage bump
people thought he was trying to sell them the Brooklyn bridge.
The investors he approached for funding turned him down. Working in Lakewood meant low-key jobs or commuting to Manhattan. No one believed that an office building could be filled with local businesses.
The area that Chopp had in mind was equally unpromising: best known for hosting a minor league baseball stadium and otherwise home to acres of pine trees.
A decade on, that woodland has mushroomed — like a plant on steroids — into a full-blown corporate office park. Lining Boulevard of the Americas today is one glass-and-steel building after the next, complete with trendy lobbies, lounge chairs, and soft music.
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