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The beloved upstate grocery emporium Wegmans is set to open its inaugural city store on Oct. 27 as part of a fi ve-story offi ce and
manufacturing development at the Navy Yard’s Admirals Row. Volley Studio
Popular upstate grocery chain plans October
opening at Brooklyn Navy Yard’s Admirals Row
Upstate grocery empire Wegmans
will open their inaugural city
store Oct. 27 in the Brooklyn
Navy Yard, the company announced
Wednesday.
The highly-anticipated supermarket
will open in the Admirals Row
development of the Fort Greene industrial
complex at Flushing Avenue
and the company’s leaders are excited
to open their doors to the community,
according to a senior offi cial.
“The Brooklyn community has
been eagerly awaiting the opening
date for this store,” said Wegmans
vice president and district manager
Todd Ferrera. “Oct. 27 is just around
the corner, and we can’t wait to celebrate
with everyone.”
Bigwigs kicked off the recruitment
of 150 full-time employees in January
and plan to hire some 500 people, the
vast majority locally, according to a
press release from the company.
The popular grocery store is still
hiring for positions ranging from
prep cooks, line cooks and lead cooks
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to full-time customer service positions
throughout the store, as well as
several part-time openings.
“We are thrilled to welcome Wegmans
to Brooklyn,” Borough President
Adams said. “The grocery store
has earned the love of employees
and customers alike, and we know
it will be a great neighbor, as evidenced
by its commitment to hire
locally. We look forward to Opening
Day in October.”
The store will be larger than a football
fi eld and have a total of 760 parking
spaces, comprised of 270 surface
lot spots and 490 in the parking deck,
according to the grocery’s spokeswoman
Valerie Fox.
It will be at the base of a fi ve-story
creative offi ce and manufacturing
building set to open this fall at the
corner of Navy Street, according to
the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development
Corporation, the quasi-governmental
agency that facilitates construction
projects on the site.
The corporation released renderings
for Building 212 Tuesday that
will house some 30 units of manufacturing
space available for lease on
top of Wegmans, on the second, third,
and fourth fl oors, along with 10 units
of offi ce space on the top fl oor.
The commercial structure which
will meet the high demand for
small-scale manufacturing and creative
offi ce space in the Fort Greene
Yard, according to the development
corporation’s head.
“There is a real demand for
smaller manufacturing and creative
offi ce spaces, as this is always some
of the quickest to lease-up at the Navy
Yard,” said David Ehrenberg, the president
and chief executive offi cer of the
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development
Corporation. “Admirals Row will be a
terrifi c home for manufacturing and
creative companies, adding to an innovative
ecosystem we’re working to
cultivate at the Yard, and there are
few better tenant amenities than a
Wegmans right in the building.”
Steiner New York City will construct
the new building and is also
developing the full Admirals Row
project, which is the size of almost 10
football fi elds and will allow for further
retail space on the lot almost oneand
a-half football fi elds large.
The development is part of the
Yard’s $1 billion expansion, its largest
since WWII, which the cooperation
says will add 10,500 jobs to its existing
9,500 in the coming years.
The development is accessible
through the complex’s Sands Street
gate and has tenant parking on
site, according to the development
corporation.
The organization also provides
shuttle buses that connect the yard to
13 subway lines and the Long Island
Rail Road.
There are seven Citi Bike docking
stations within or adjacent to the
yard, including one across the street
from Building 212 and NYC Ferry will
open a stop at the riverside there this
summer.
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