The eastern portion of the project is being developed on a parallel track by Delta Air Lines, which is responsible for updating its terminals A, C and D.

The overall project calls for the disparate terminals at LaGuardia to be unified in a more accessible and fluid design. Part of that design calls for bridge-like passenger walkways that make better use of the airport’s scarce real estate and allow aircraft more room to taxi, which the developers say will reduce congestion and lower emissions from idling jets.

The state’s plans for LaGuardia are part of a larger vision overseen by the governor’s office that calls for upgrades at John F. Kennedy International Airport and two regional airports outside of New York City, Republic Airport in Farmingdale on Long Island, and Stewart International Airport north of the city in Newburgh. ESD will guide the development of both sites through real estate broker Newmark Knight Grubb Frank.

In Brooklyn, state and city agencies have funded the Green Manufacturing Center, which is adding more than 1.8 million sq ft to the Brooklyn Navy Yard by converting three buildings that formerly housed Navy machine shops into a 220,000 sq ft multi-tenanted, LEED Silver-certified sites.

Another Brooklyn Navy Yard project calls for the gutting of Building 77 down to its Carnegie-era steel beams and repurposing the former ammunition dump into a $140-million, 17-story, 960,000-sq-ft green manufacturing facility.

New York’s physical transformation is being mirrored by policy changes now working their way through the Public Service Commission’s regulatory process.

Cuomo’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) strategy calls for innovation and investment in clean energy. In June, as part of that program, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) proposed a $1.5-billion investment over the next 10 years to support the development of large scale renewable energy projects such as wind, solar and biomass power plants.

The program is designed to replace the state’s renewable portfolio standard that expires at year end and to make the procurement of renewable resources in the state more cost effective, Doreen Harris, manager of the large scale renewable program, says.

One of the changes proposed for the program would be to make various forms of renewable resources compete against each other.

Overall, the program aims “to continue long-term commitment for cost effective renewable energy sources at scale,” Harris says.