The Bloomberg administration has brokered a deal to bring a ShopRite supermarket to the city-owned Brooklyn Navy Yard, the NY Post has learned.

It’s part of a plan that will finally break down a section of the 300-acre industrial park’s 12-foot-high brick walls to make it a major destination for surrounding communities and three public housing developments – all of which are in dire need of a full-sized supermarket, sources close to the project said.

As part of the city’s $60 million plan to redevelop the six-acre Admirals Row site at the Yard, PA Developers will build the mammoth 55,000-square-foot supermarket along with 30,000 square feet of other new retail space and 125,000 square feet of industrial space. The nearest supermarket is nearly a mile away.

The parts of the wall coming down are at Flushing Avenue and Navy Street.

James said the new ShopRite would be a “destination supermarket like the [Pathmark] at Atlantic Terminal Mall” in Fort Greene and finally give the neighborhood a convenient place to shop.

The project is expected to break ground by early 2012 and be finished by 2013.

Part of it will include demolishing nine historic, but dilapidated, buildings, although a former military residence and timber shed at Admirals Row will be restored and incorporated into the development.

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