SEE: New Renderings Of BK Wegmans, Building Space Now Available

FORT GREENE, BROOKLYN — The opening of the city's first Wegmans outpost may be getting the most buzz, but it is far from the only, or the biggest, addition to the Brooklyn Navy Yard this year.

The new Wegmans is part of the yard's extensive redevelopment of its Admirals Row and 399 Sands site, which is included in a. $1 billion expansion taking place at the yard.

The grocery store chain will house the bottom two floors of Building 212 in Admirals Row, but 130,000 square feet of other space in the five-story building is still up for grabs. That space, meant for manufacturing and office uses, became available to lease this week, the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation announced on Tuesday.

“There is a real demand for smaller manufacturing and creative office spaces, as this is always some of the quickest to lease-up at the Navy Yard,” said BNYDC President and CEO David Ehrenberg. “Admirals Row will be a terrific 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.”

The development arm of the the Navy Yard will market 34,000 square feet of office space and 96,000 square feet of manufacturing space for the building, which will likely be done this fall.

The manufacturing space includes 30 units up for lease, which range from 1,300 to 10,000 square feet on the second, third and fourth floors. Office space will be housed on the fifth floor and includes 10 units from 1,900 to 6,100 square feet.

Building 212 will be ready to welcome its new tenants with 5,000 lbs-capacity elevators with 4.5-foot openings, two box-truck loading docks, louvers in tenant spaces and exhaust shafts, as well as a kitchenette on each floor.

The leasing is the latest step in the Navy Yard's biggest expansion since World War II. Overall, the expansion will add 10,500 jobs to the Yard in the next few years, officials said.

Some of those jobs will also be at Wegmans, which will also open later this year. The company, with the help of the Navy Yard, has already started filling out its 500 person full and part-time staff over the last few months. Most recently the supermarket applied for a liquor license for its second-floor mezzanine restaurant.