NEW YORK CITY-Elected officials gathered at the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s Admirals Row site Friday afternoon to mark the official transfer of the site from the Federal government to the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp. Along with the Yard’s owner, the City of New York, the BNYDC will redevelop and preserve portions of Admirals Row.

The RFP issued in conjunction with Friday’s announcement calls for bids for the construction of a supermarket on Admirals Row that will be no less than 74,000 square feet in size. New industrial space is also planned. Additionally, the site’s historic timber shed and a residential home, known as Building B, will also be preserved and slated for retail or office use.

A disposition for the site—and the supermarket expected by 2014—was a long time in the making, a fact not lost on US Senator Charles Schumer.