Gotham Greens
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| Private | |
| Industry | Agribusiness |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Founder | Viraj Puri Eric Haley |
| Headquarters | Brooklyn, NY |
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Key people
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Viraj Puri (CEO) Eric Haley (CFO) Jennifer Nelkin-Frymark (Chief Agriculture Officer) |
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Number of employees
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100 (2014) |
| Website | gothamgreens.com |
Gotham Greens is an American urban agriculture company founded in Brooklyn, New York, that grows produce year-round in greenhouses, sold locally in New York City and Chicago under its brand name. The company owns and operates four greenhouse facilities in the United States.
Gotham Greens was founded by Viraj Puri and Eric Haley in 2008, aiming to bring fresh, local and pesticide-free vegetables, grown using ecologically sustainable methods, to urban areas. Puri has a sustainable development and environmental engineering background, and Haley has a banking and finance background and focuses on the business side of the venture. The company is headed by Puri, Haley and Jennifer Nelkin-Frymark, who joined in 2009 to lead greenhouse operations.
After three years of planning, in May 2011 Gotham Greens opened its first location, a 15,000 square-foot greenhouse in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The company opened its second location in 2013, a 20,000 square-foot greenhouse, atop a Whole Foods Market in Gowanus, Brooklyn; its third in 2015, a 75,000 square foot greenhouse in Chicago, Illinois, the largest rooftop greenhouse in the world; and its fourth location, a 60,000 square-foot greenhouse in Queens, New York, in late 2015. Its produce is packaged and sold in local stores under the Gotham Greens brand name, and also sold to local restaurants.
The 15,000 square-foot rooftop facility in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, opened in 2011, becoming the first commercial urban hydroponic farm in the United States. It was built on the roof of a former bowling alley. The company harvested its first vegetables in May 2011, which it began selling the following month. Within a year, it was on track to deliver 100 tons of produce, expanding in its second year from salad greens and basil to include tomatoes.
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