The last time several thousand people showed up at the Bethlehem Steel plant in Bethlehem, Pa., they were reporting for a shift at the historic facility, whose 30,000 workers churned out steel for such projects as the Empire State Building and the Holland and Lincoln tunnels.
The HOK New York Office project had several challenges to overcome to achieve a smooth and successful delivery of its office space in midtown Manhattan, the first being a short and demanding schedule.
A historic 1930s-era Art Deco-style post office in Center City Philadelphia was renovated and restored as part of the $252-million IRS 30th Street Campus Project. The result is a consolidated campus and Class A office space that is home to the Internal Revenue Service.
Arverne by the Sea YMCA has chosen Racanelli Construction Co., Melville, N.Y., to provide general contractor/construction management services on a new $17.3-million project in Queens. Construction on the two-story, 36,600-sq-ft building began in September and is expected to be completed by March 2013. Rendering Courtesy of Donald Blair Architects The project will be built on a 2.2-acre site, part of the 117-acre Arverne-by-the-sea residential community in Arverne, N.Y. The facility will be constructed out of a piled foundation and contain concrete and structural steel framing. It will include a partial basement with a pool hall, locker rooms, conference rooms, multi-purpose
Bristol, Conn. The Connecticut Laborers' District Council is not a fan of ESPN's choice of nonunion contractors to build a new $100-million, 193,000-sq-ft digital center in Bristol, Conn. The council is encouraging union players in the major sports leagues to boycott ESPN. The general manager charges that the GM, Associated Construction Co., Hartford, Conn., and site contractor, Mizzy Construction, Plainville, Conn., are nonunion shops that “do not pay living wages or follow area standards.”Neither ESPN nor the contractor firms returned calls for comment by press time. However, the Connecticut chapter of the Associated Builders and Contractors throws its support behind
The failure of a nut connecting a fuel injector to a fuel pump at Manhattan’s North River Wastewater Treatment Plant is one of the most likely initial causes of the four-alarm fire that shuttered the plant for days last July, according to a Dept. of Environmental Protection report released yesterday. However, the initial cause of the blaze, which caused millions of gallons of raw sewage to spill from the plant into the Hudson River, cannot be determined with absolute certainty because the fire damaged or destroyed much of the equipment involved, DEP says. The nut may have failed because it
Luxury retailer Coach, Inc. will become the first tenant in a tower that developers Related Companies and Oxford Properties Group, both of New York, plan to build on Midtown Manhattan’s West Side. Coach will occupy more than 600,000 square feet, or more than one-third of the initial tower of the Eastern Rail Yards, part of the 26-acre, mixed-use Hudson Yards site that the city hopes to develop. The 1.7-million-sq-ft, 51-story tower will generate more than 20,000 construction jobs, according to NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s office. When completed in 2015, the tower will be the largest commercial building in New York
Macy’s announced today that it will invest $400 million in a four-year renovation of its Herald Square flagship store in Midtown Manhattan. Work is scheduled to begin in early spring 2012 and will continue in phases through the fall of 2015. The project is expected to create about 1,600 construction jobs and 800 permanent jobs. Rendering Courtesy of Macy's The majority of each floor and department as well as the exterior of the building will be renovated as the store remains open to customers, Macy’s says. The renovation will include a 100,000-sq-ft expansion of selling space to a total of
Forest City Ratner Companies, Brooklyn, N.Y., has canceled its plan to build the Four Sparrows Retail Center at Mill Basin on Flatbush Ave., in Brooklyn, according to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal. Forest City Ratner did not return calls by press time. The Mill Basin project, estimated to cost between $15 million and $25 million, according to McGraw-Hill Dodge reports, was to include an 11,000-sq-ft automotive sales and service center as well as a shopping center. It had been scheduled to begin by 2014. AKRF Engineering, New York was the architect on the project and Bical Development
The New York construction market next year is likely to mirror that of the national market, which McGraw-Hill Construction recently forecast as flat at about $412 billion in starts. McGraw-Hill Construction, the parent company of ENR New York, expects 2011 total starts to hit $410 billion, a 4% drop over 2010. The company cites slow economic growth, diminished federal and state funding, and "pervasive uncertainty." Next year "the top-line numbers are not expected to show much change, but there will be variation within the major construction sectors, with some gains predicted for housing and commercial building, assuming the U.S. economy
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