Growing demand for luxury residential towers, particularly in Manhattan, is a key driver behind the 12% decline this year in New York City's list of stalled projects, according to the New York Building Congress (NYBC). Some of the luxury developments that have been shelved since 2009, when the Dept. of Buildings (DOB) began tracking stalled sites, "have come roaring back to life," says NYBC, which analyzed the DOB's stalled projects data from November 2012 to the present. These include the 60-story 56 Leonard Street and the 20-story 5 Franklin Place residential buildings, both in Tribeca.The city has so far this
Some $86 million of Superstorm Sandy recovery funds will be used to improve infrastructure on Amtrak's four East River tunnels that carry more than 300,000 Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) commuters a day to and from Penn Station. The aging single-track tunnels, which Amtrak owns and maintains, have been the source of numerous LIRR delays due to track issues, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in a statement and at a broadcast press conference held at the Mineola LIRR station today, Nov. 18. He says he pushed Amtrak to develop the tunnel improvement program following an LIRR service disruption last August
To transform a 120-year-old dormitory into the new $38-million Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University, the team had to build a new steel structure within the existing historical facade.
The design-build team constructing this New Britain police station had just 30 months to complete the 91,300-sq-ft structure, including six months of early design time.
The team tackling Contract C of the New York State Capitol Building Restoration project was well aware of the basic safety compliance mandates for an undertaking of this scope.
This $48-million project focused on the east quadrant of the historic New York State Capitol building in Albany, a 19th-century structure that took more than 25 years to build and had five architects.
The 120,000-sq-ft New York State Troop G campus located on 43 acres outside of Albany replaces an antiquated facility built in the middle of the last century.
1946 and exposed to a saltwater environment, the ramps of the St. George Ferry Terminal, a multimodal transport hub in Staten Island, N.Y., required extensive repair and reconstruction.
Standing as a model for redevelopment of older corporate facilities in New Jersey, the $215-million gut rehabilitation and adaptive reuse of this 1985 building created a new office space for Novo Nordisk in Princeton, N.J.
This $365-million facility will be the research and development home for the Global 450mm Consortium—a public-private partnership focused on fostering the development of 450mm wafers and related semiconductor technology.
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