Transportation
Tutor Perini to Build $1.9B Staging-Storage Facility for Midtown NYC Bus Terminal Redevelopment
The Staging and Storage Facility as part of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s Midtown Bus Terminal Redevelopment Program in New York City includes a new seven-floor steel-clad storage and staging facility located between 9th and 10th Avenues, and between West 39th and West 40th Streets, with space to store up to 350 buses.
Rendering credit to Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Tutor Perini will construct the $1.87-billion Staging and Storage Facility as part of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s $10-billion Midtown Bus Terminal Redevelopment Program in New York City.
Scheduled to get underway this fall, the three-year project calls for a new seven-floor steel-clad storage and staging facility located between 9th and 10th Avenues, and between West 39th and West 40th Streets, with space to store up to 350 buses.
Tutor Perini also will construct an innovative ramp structure encompassing an adjacent block in order to provide a smoother connection between the facility's above-grade levels and the Lincoln Tunnel while also reducing congestion on city streets.
Ramps will connect the Midtown Bus Terminal's future staging area directly to the Lincoln Tunnel, removing buses from city streets. Rendering courtesy Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
With limited storage space in the existing terminal, most buses spend periods between peak commuter travel times parked or idling on local streets and nearby surface lots scattered throughout Manhattan’s west side. Others drive back empty to New Jersey. Along with providing sufficient indoor storage space for vehicles and accommodate long-term commuter growth projections, the Staging and Storage Facility will support regional carriers’ transition to all-electric fleets. The building will also provide 67,500 sq-ft of street-level retail space.
Upon completion, the new Staging and Storage Facility will initially serve as a temporary terminal during the Port Authority’s planned construction of a new 2.1-million-sq-ft, 180-gate main terminal, the centerpiece of the agency’s $10-billion redevelopment program aimed at fully revamping the existing 75-year-old surface transportation hub.
The program got underway in May 2025 with the start of construction of two decks spanning below-grade portions of Dyer Avenue and the Lincoln Tunnel Expressway. When complete, the “deck-overs” will provide additional bus staging room during the new terminal’s construction phase, then be transformed into 3.5 acres of publicly accessible open space.
AECOM Tishman is construction manager for the $271-million deck-over project, with MLJ Contracting serving as general contractor.
The new main terminal is slated to be in operation by 2032, with all phases of redevelopment to be completed by 2040. A joint venture of Louis Berger and HNTB is providing program management services.
