The wheels are turning in the right direction at Staten Island’s Empire Outlets even as The Wheel, the complex’s next-door but unrelated development project, remains stalled.

Empire Outlets developer BFC Partners, led by principal Joseph Ferrara, has signed another major retail tenant — Old Navy, which will have 13,382 square feet. The deal brings the Outlets’ total retail and restaurant space of 340,000 square feet to 71.54 percent leased, according to a spokesman. The openings are set for the fall.

BFC also confirmed that a lease with Nordstrom Rack, announced a few years ago, is “100 percent on” despite a recent story in a Staten Island blog suggesting otherwise.