LOOK: Renderings Show Future of Brooklyn Navy Yard

Renderings courtesy of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Industrial Park

BROOKLYN NAVY YARD, NY — According to a new marketing document released last week by the Brooklyn Navy Yard Industrial Park and flagged by Brownstoner (and embedded below), the industrial yard currently hosts 300 tenants and employs about 7,000 people, collectively generating $2.35 billion each year in all forms of economic activity.

But not for long.

Brooklyn Navy Yard officials plan to expand the yard's 3.5 million square feet of rentable space to 6 million square feet by 2018, the document says — and by 2020, they aim to increase the yard's total workforce to 16,000.

An on-site Wegmans grocery is in the works, the New York Times reported last year, and will open in 2018 or 2019, according to Yard spokeswoman Michelle Friedman.

Dock 72, meanwhile, is being redeveloped into a start-up hub that will open in 2018, Friedman said.

Other projects include a new production lot for Steiner Studios — at the current site of Building 664, B&H Photo's shady storage and shipping warehouse — and a green manufacturing center that Friedman said is already partially leased.

But the marketing document devotes most of its attention to the redevelopment of Building 77, announced in March 2013 and slated to be completed next year. (Friedman said work will wrap up in "early" 2017.)

When completed, the new and improved Building 77 will house 1 million rentable square feet and a Russ & Daughters on its first floor. It will also offer “diverse food retail options,” “communal seating,” “floor-to-ceiling windows” and “flexible, multi-purpose meeting space,” according to the document.