“Part of the site is over the Amtrak Empire [Service] line, so the building had to be designed and constructed keeping an open rail line,” Murphy says.

A $325 million, 392,700-sq-ft building, with classrooms, laboratories and offices at the Borough of Manhattan Community College will replace the former Fiterman Hall, lost during 9/11. Hunter Roberts Construction Group of New York broke ground last year and is expected to finish the Pei Cobb Freed & Partners-designed project in 2012, according to DASNY.

DASNY has accepted bids for site work on CUNY’s $102 million, 98,000-sq-ft North Instructional Building at Bronx Community College. TDX Construction Corp. of New York is the construction manager. Also says DASNY, in the Bronx, Gilbane Building of New York serves as construction manager on the first phase of CUNY’s new $76 million, 68,000-sq-ft science facility at Lehman College for CUNY. Completion is expected in summer 2012.

CUNY did not respond to requests to confirm information about its projects.

Turner, in a joint venture partnership with the McKissack Group, is the construction manager on a $140 million, 190,000-sq-ft academic building with laboratories at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, set to finish later this year. Ennead Architects designed the building.

At Hunter College in East Harlem, Turner is working for The Brodsky Organization of New York on the $75 million, 147,000-sq-ft School of Social Work building. The project, designed by Cooper, Robertson & Partners of New York, broke ground in 2009 and is expected to finish in 2011. The private developer received land near the college’s main campus and in exchange is building Hunter the social work facility at 119th St.

“There are more public-private partnerships going on now than there was historically,” Murphy says. “I think that is a trend we will continue to see with CUNY.”

Useful Sources

NYU 2031
http://www.nyu.edu/nyu2031/

New York University Construction
http://www.nyu.edu/construction

Manhattanville in West Harlem
http://neighbors.columbia.edu/pages/manplanning/

CUNY Advanced Science Research Center
http://www.cuny.edu/about/centers-and-institutes/ASRC.html