Structural engineer Thomas Z. Scarangello is no stranger to the Long Island Railroad's West Side Yard in Manhattan, which is going under cover thanks to the 28-acre Hudson Yards development.
The current chairman and CEO of Thornton Tomasetti (TT) first studied the yard in the late 1990s, when there was talk of a baseball park there. And he was involved again when New York City made its bid for the 2012 Olympic Games, with the west part of the site designated for the Olympic stadium. When London won the bid, Scarangello stayed involved as part of a failed effort to build a Jets football stadium at the site.