Thirty-four techno artists are descending on Brooklyn this weekend as Industry City hosts the inaugural AGAPE Festival, an 18-hour-a-day electronic music marathon spread across a courtyard stage and an indoor warehouse room. The festival runs Saturday and Sunday, September 5 and 6, 2026, turning the sprawling waterfront complex into one of Brooklyn's biggest outdoor techno gatherings yet.
AGAPE is presenting this weekend's festival in Industry City, with background linked through the Brooklyn Eagle.
Programming for the debut leans into the label's warehouse roots while scaling up considerably. The Sunday program includes a stage takeover by Berlin's 44 Label Group, culminating in a Kobosil-led back-to-back set, alongside a Saturday stage design built around paired artists performing in a 360-degree format billed as Face 2 Face.
A Complex Built for Late-Night Crowds
Industry City itself has hosted this kind of large-scale, late-night programming. The Brooklyn Eagle notes that the venue has grown its entertainment offerings. The complex also hosted the Why Not Now? Festival over Memorial Day weekend. That festival brought Gorgon City and Chase & Status to the complex over Memorial Day weekend, per DJ LIFE Magazine.
House of Yes has leaned further into Industry City's outdoor footprint throughout 2026, including a 16-day soccer-and-music festival called House of GOAL in July. The pattern reflects how established North Brooklyn nightlife institutions are increasingly using Sunset Park's open-air courtyards for events too large for their home turf.
None of this is happening in a vacuum. Industry City counts more than 650 businesses on its campus, according to the Brooklyn Eagle, occupying a 35-acre, 6-million-square-foot complex of 16 interconnected industrial buildings along the Sunset Park waterfront that also employs more than 9,000 workers, per BKReader. Tech and artificial intelligence firms alone occupy roughly 700,000 square feet of the campus as of mid-2025, according to Industry City.
From Bush Terminal to Brooklyn's Festival Circuit
The complex's transformation into a nightlife and festival hub is a relatively recent chapter in a much older story. Built in the 1890s as Bush Terminal by Irving T. Bush, the waterfront property originally spanned 200 acres as the nation's first intermodal shipping, warehousing, and manufacturing facility, according to Wikipedia. A consortium including Jamestown LP purchased the property in 2013 as part of a $450 million redevelopment effort, but developers withdrew a controversial 3.3-million-square-foot rezoning application in September 2020 after opposition from local community groups and elected officials, per Metro Manhattan Office Space.
With large-scale rezoning off the table, Industry City continues to include commercial tech tenants and large-scale entertainment programming. That mix is part of Industry City's current identity.
Part of a Busy Fall Calendar in Sunset Park
AGAPE's debut lands amid a packed stretch of programming across Sunset Park and Industry City. Hoodline has reported that Brooklyn Kura will host its third annual Sake Day Brooklyn festival at its Industry City taproom on October 2, drawing more than 50 local and international sake producers. That follows other recent programming across Sunset Park and Industry City.
Whether AGAPE becomes a recurring fixture alongside those events remains to be seen, but its arrival this weekend marks another step in Industry City's evolution from a single industrial complex into a rotating stage for Brooklyn's nightlife, arts, and food scenes alike.
