Transportation
STV-Turner JV to Oversee Midtown Manhattan Bus Terminal Phase 1 Work
The Midtown Bus Terminal in Manhattan will be replaced under a $10-billion redevelopment. A Phase 1 STV-Turner joint venture will manage construction of an interim terminal, storage, and new ramp to keep operations running during reconstruction.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has selected a joint venture of STV Construction Inc. and Turner Construction Co. to provide construction management services for Phase 1 of the Midtown Bus Terminal replacement program, including the interim terminal and related storage, staging and ramp work.
Port Authority materials indicate the STV-Turner team was selected as the highest technically rated proposer under a federally compliant request-for-proposals process.
The assignment covers oversight of a roughly 900,000-sq-ft, eight-level interim terminal and storage facility and a 500,000-sq-ft ramp structure designed to connect directly with the Lincoln Tunnel. The structure will span the Amtrak Empire Corridor and connect the main terminal and interim facility.
Plans call for wider lanes designed to accommodate modern bus fleets, including double-deck buses, bypass lanes allowing buses to move around disabled vehicles and circulation routes enabling buses to change floors and gates without returning to city streets.
The steel-clad facility includes five levels, with capacity for up to 350 buses and about 65,700 sq ft of street-facing retail space between Ninth and 10th avenues.
Limited storage capacity often requires buses to idle on Manhattan streets, use surface parking lots or return empty to New Jersey between commuter periods. The new facility is designed to consolidate those functions.
The agreement establishes labor rates but "will not commit the Port Authority to any specific dollar amount/volume of services," according to board materials. Individual assignments will be requested and negotiated separately.
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The agreement term extends from the third quarter of 2025 through the third quarter of 2030, with two optional one-year extensions.
The scope includes construction coordination, scheduling, inspections, quality assurance and commissioning services.
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In June 2025, the Port Authority authorized Tutor Perini Corp. to deliver core-and-shell work for the interim terminal and all ramp construction under a guaranteed maximum price arrangement. Remaining packages—including mechanical, electrical, plumbing, façade and architectural elements—are expected to be procured separately.
Procurement materials identify future work scopes including piles and caissons, excavation, instrumentation and monitoring, structural steel, site utilities, escalators and elevators and major MEP systems packages.
"This is one of the most complex transportation construction programs in the country and it demands disciplined execution from day one, so our focus is keeping buses moving, protecting the community and delivering Phase 1 safely," says Gus Maimis, deputy project manager for STV's program management and construction management operating group.
Port Authority documents characterize the STV-Turner agreement as a task-order arrangement that establishes labor rates but does not commit the agency to a specific dollar amount or volume of services. Requests for additional details from Turner and the Port Authority, including staffing assumptions and contract information, were made, but no immediate response was received.
ENR previously reported that the approximately $10-billion Midtown Bus Terminal replacement program received a $1.89-billion loan under the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act to support first-phase work.
Bryan Gottlieb is the online editor at Engineering News-Record (ENR).
Gottlieb is a five-time Society of Professional Journalists Excellence in Journalism award winner with more than a decade of experience covering business, construction and community issues, including finance, law and real estate. He has reported for Adweek and the San Diego Daily Transcript and led a community newsroom in Santa Monica, Calif. He served as editor-in-chief of the Detroit Metro Times and as managing editor at Roofing Contractor, where he helped shape national industry coverage. At Engineering News-Record, Gottlieb covers breaking news, large-scale infrastructure and megaprojects, regulatory developments and business trends across the U.S. and global construction sectors.
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