Admirals Row redevelopment finally reaches public review

Admirals Row redevelopment renderings (courtesy of GreenbergFarrow)

The six-acre neighborhood retail and industrial redevelopment of Brooklyn Navy Yard’s Admiral Row site has finally reached the beginning of the public review process, decades after it was first proposed, Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Robert Steel and Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation President Andrew Kimball announced today.

If approved by Community Board 2, the City Planning Commission and New York City Council, the site will be transferred from the federal government to the city-owned Brooklyn Navy Yard and become home to a 74,000-square-foot supermarket, 79,000 square feet of retail space and 127,000 square feet of industrial space. It would create 500 permanent retail and industrial jobs as well as hundreds of temporary construction positions.

“One of the hallmarks of the Bloomberg administration has been the revitalization of neighborhoods in all five boroughs by catalyzing private sector investment,” Steel said.

The development of Admirals Row would be the latest in a large expansion underway at the Navy Yard, fuelled by more than $200 million in basic infrastructure investments from the Bloomberg administration, including a recent $15 million commitment to build space for green manufacturers.

Last month, it was reported that four New York legislators were pushing for the transfer of Admirals Row to the Navy Yard. The lengthy bureaucratic process had left structures at the site in danger of collapse, they said.

The project would break ground in 2012. — Katherine Clarke