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DUMBO, BROOKLYN, N.Y., Nov. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Maker's Row, a DUMBO-based tech company, just launched a groundbreaking way for product-based businesses to find American factories to produce their goods domestically. Their primary mission is to bring outsourced manufacturing back home, and to plant the seeds of the next generation of product-based businesses to be able to easily turn their product ideas into reality. By creating a more modern and inclusive manufacturing...

By Daniel TrottaNEW YORK (Reuters) - As they say in Brooklyn, David Walentas walks around the neighborhood like he owns the place. That's because he does. Well, almost all of it."The Starbucks isn't mine," says the developer.Walentas, 67, bought most of the 12-square-block Brooklyn neighborhood called Dumbo from real estate tycoon Harry Helmsley in 1979, paying $12 million for 2 million square feetof space, and eventually bought nearly all of the rest.Since then he has...

By Daniel TrottaNEW YORK (Reuters) - As they say in Brooklyn, David Walentas walks around the neighborhood like he owns the place. That's because he does.Well, almost all of it."The Starbucks isn't mine," says the developer.Walentas, 67, bought most of the 12-square-block Brooklyn neighborhood called Dumbo from real estate tycoon Harry Helmsley in 1979, paying $12 million for 2 million square feet of space, and eventually bought nearly all of the rest.Since then he has...