Texas & Southeast Pulse: June 2025
Contracts, Bids, Proposals
Florida
The Miami-Dade County Dept. of Transportation and Public Works, with consulting engineers HNTB Corp. and Parsons Transportation Group Inc., are developing designs for the $927.3-million Northeast Corridor Rapid Transit project. The county is considering infrastructure and station agreements with rail company Brightline for the railroad passenger terminal with infrastructure to be completed in late 2027 or in 2028. Part of the county’ s Strategic Miami Area Rapid Transit (SMART) Program, the project will have up to $389 million in federal funding, $337.9 million from the county and more than $200 million from the state. It is the first part of the 85-mile Coastal Link commuter rail system and one of five SMART rapid transit corridors. The 13.5-mile-long corridor in Coastal Link’ s Miami-Dade portion will run from Miami Central Station downtown to a new Aventura, Fla., station along existing Florida East Coast rail tracks and will include two existing Brightline Stations and associated park-and-ride sites. A train vehicle maintenance facility is planned for an existing rail yard at 9400 NW 37th Ave. in Miami. Miami-Dade County Dept. of Transportation & Public Works, 701 NW 1st Ct. Ste. 1700, Miami, 33136. DR#23-00381477.
Louisiana
Owners Mitsui & Co. and JERA Americas - Houston and owner-builder-developer CF Industries Holdings Inc. are in planning phases of the $2-billion Blue Point Ammonia Complex in Donaldsville. The project team includes carbon dioxide supplier ExxonMobil and engineers Haldor Topsoe Inc., Thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions Inc. and Technip Energies. Final investment decision and tax incentives are in place, with preconstruction and engineering reviews set to start in 2025, major construction in 2026 and operations in 2029. The design-bid-build project will construct three buildings for a proposed 1.4-million-metric-ton low-carbon blue ammonia plant, cooling towers, CO2 compression, plant equipment and storage and loading facilities to produce low-carbon ammonia. Full project investment is reportedly $4 billion, with $2 billion listed as hard construction costs only. CF Industries Holdings Inc., 2375 Waterview Drive, Northbrook, IL, 60062. DR#23-00313078.
Florida
Owners Related Companies, Gattuso Development Partners and Citadel are in the planning schematics phase for the $1-billion Citadel Headquarters Mixed-Use Supertall Office Tower in Miami. The design-bid-build project will include offices, retail space, a parking garage and a hotel-motel in three buildings of about 1.7 million sq ft along Brickell Bay Drive and Brickell Avenue. Phase 1 is a 54-story tower with 1.3 million sq ft of office space, 212 hotel rooms, 5,239 sq ft of health spa area, an eight-deck garage at 1221 Brickell Bay Drive, 50 underground parking spaces and a public waterfront terrace. Phase 2 will have a 408,423-sq-ft office building at 1221 Brickell Ave., and Phase 3 will be a 100-unit residential tower at 1250 Brickell Bay Drive. Project team members include Thornton-Tomasetti Group Inc. as structural engineer, Cosentini Associates as mechanical/electrical engineer, Northstar Contracting Group Inc. for demolition, AAI Architects P.C. and Foster + Partners -NYC as architects, Kimley-Horn & Associates Inc. as civil engineer and Langan as consulting engineer. Citadel, 131 S. Dearborn St. Fl. 27, Chicago, 60603. DR#04-00683320.
North Carolina
The North Carolina Dept. of Transportation is in early design phase for the $270-million Interstate 40 Interchange Improvements project in Knightdale, a design-bid-build project using $90.8 million in funds from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Bidding is targeted for January 2027 with construction to follow. The project includes reconstructing two interchanges and adding lanes on I-40. NCDOT Division 5 Office, 2612 N. Duke St., Durham, 27704. DR#22-00859642.
