Mumford & Sons’ Ben Lovett to Open New Venue At Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Refinery

Brooklyn is getting a new concert venue next year, as Ben Lovett’s tvg Hospitality is set to open Domino, a 750-cap room in Williamsburg’s Domino Sugar Refinery, next April. The Sugar Refinery is one of the most historic buildings in Brooklyn, located just off the Williamsburg waterfront. The venue, in development in partnership with Emerson Partners, will host a wide range of live events including concerts, comedy nights, film screenings and live podcast tapings among other offerings, tvg said. Lovett, a founding member of Mumford and Sons, founded tvg hospitality back in 2015, with the company opening several venues across the U.S. and U.K. over the past decade, including L.A.’s Pacific Electric, which opened in Chinatown last year. “Williamsburg was my introduction to New York City, as it was for so many artists and musicians twenty years ago,” Lovett said in a statement. “The neighborhood has changed enormously since then, but for decades, people have sought and found community in places like the one we’re building. Domino is our chance to carry that on: somewhere artists can develop ideas, audiences can discover something new, and neighbors feel they belong. Neighborhoods change. The need for a place like this never does.” tvg is a member of the National Independent Venue Association, and Domino will bring another indie option to the New York market; Dice will serve as the venue’s ticketing platform. Notably, Domino has committed not to take a cut of artists’ merchandise sales at their concerts, bucking a common practice among concert venues that has been particularly unpopular among artists. “Independent venues built Brooklyn’s neighborhoods and NYC’s nightlife economy,” Jen Lyon, owner of MeanRed Productions and the president of the New York Independent Venue Association, said a statement. Our hope is for the city and state to support us as an industry as we welcome tvg Hospitality’s new venue and the independent spirit it brings to Brooklyn.” Domino Sugar Refinery is owned by real estate development company Two Trees Management. In a statement, Two Trees CEO Jed Walentas said the refinery “was the heart of Williamsburg’s industrial waterfront for more than a century, and preserving that history while creating something new and relevant has been central to our vision for the site.” “Williamsburg has an extraordinary and diverse cultural history of its own, and we’ve always believed that arts, music and creative spaces are essential to what makes the neighborhood interesting and vibrant,” he said. “Bringing live music and cultural programming to the ground floor of this historic building is a natural next chapter for the Refinery and will add a new dimension to the cultural life of the neighborhood.”