The reconstruction of the Kew Gardens Interchange, a five year, $146.5 million effort to improve safety and traffic flow has broken ground. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The reconstruction project which is expected to create approximately 200 professional and trade labor jobs as well as hundreds of supplier, fabricator and subcontractor jobs overall is being funded by a contract awarded to ECCO III of Yonkers by the New York State Department of Transportation and the 2005 Transportation Bond Act, a key source of funding for the 2005-2010 capital program. The current five year capital plan is facing a $10
The construction of a 98,433 sq ft school located on West 44th Street in Manhattan is scheduled to take place this November. Turner Construction Company will be providing construction services through a $54.7 million contract awarded by the New York City School Construction Authority and UK based RMJM will be providing architectural services. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Upon completion, PS/IS 51M will accommodate 640 students and include 24 classrooms, two special education classrooms and other educational amenities and faculty facilities. Completion is scheduled for July 2013.
Wok is currently underway on the $21 million Grand Central Station renovations which includes a new employee facility and public tennis courts in the station’s annex as a result of the Metro-North’s compliance with federal laws that require quarters for railroad conductors. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" F.J. Sciame Construction Company of New York is providing architectural/engineering design and construction services on this design-build project as part of a single contract with the project owner. Ziggurat Systems of Lynbrook, New York is providing 3D modeling and coordination services in order to reduce impacts to the construction process by identifying
The groundbreaking of two affordable housing developments, Park Terrace at Croton Heights and Grant Park at Croton Heights, located at the former site of the historic Mulford Gardens Public Housing Complex and Ashburton Avenue in Yonkers recently took place at a ceremony celebrated by the city. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The $19.1 million Park Terrace which will be a 55,644-sq-ft senior rental facility will feature 49 one-bedroom apartments that will be available to seniors earning an income no higher than 50% of the area median income. Park Terrace is expected to achieve a LEED Silver status by implementing
Construction on the first phase of City Point, a mixed-use project in Downtown Brooklyn has begun in large part to a $20 million tax exempt bond issued through the New York City Economic Development Corporation. Rendering courtesy of Cook + Fox Architects The first phase of the $24 million City Point project consists of a 50,000-sq-ft, four-story, retail building. The bond will cover most of the $24 million project which will transform approximately 1.5 million sq ft of the Fulton Mall into a combination of retail and commercial space as well as affordable and market-rate housing. The first phase of
The expansion and modernization of St. Mary’s Hospital for Children in Bayside, New York, a $114 million project that is expected to create 420 construction jobs is began in September with Turner Construction Company providing pre-construction and construction management services through a $72 million contract. Anshen and Allen of Columbus, Ohio is serving as the architect. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The project includes a five-story, 90,000 sq ft expansion of the current 90,000-sq- ft, 97-bed hospital that provides full medical care for infants through teenage patients with life threatening illnesses and injuries and the modernization of the building
Aiming to grow to meet an increasing demand for higher education, New York City’s major universities are investing in substantial upgrades to their campuses. “It’s a strong segment in the New York construction market,” says Richard Anderson, president of the New York Building Congress in Manhattan. “Institutional coupled with infrastructure is sustaining the industry at this point.” New York University, Columbia University and the City University of New York have multiple projects in the works. In addition, Weill Cornell Medical College broke ground in May on its $650 million, 18-story Medical Research Building; Mount Sinai School of Medicine began constructing
Lower Manhattan Starbucks would be the last place one would expect to find the man New York City prosecutors tried to portray as “Wild Bill Rapetti.” Photo:AP Rapetti on the media spectacle that surrounded his “perp walk” shortly after turning himself in to authorities: “It was disgusting.” Photo Courtesy Of The Rapetti Family Rapetti on his acquittal: “I feel like the Verizon commercial. ‘Do you hear me now?’” Rapetti, the master rigger who was recently acquitted on manslaughter charges stemming from the deadly collapse of a 200-ft tower crane in Manhattan in 2008, was called “reckless” by the prosecution and
“It’s not for girls.” Photo Courtesy Of Lenore Janis In the 1970s Janis lobbied then-Gov. Mario Cuomo [receiving an award from Janis above] to set a goal of 5% participation for female contractors on all state-funded projects. That’s how Lenore Janis describes the reaction to her childhood interest in the family business. As the association Janis founded – the Professional Women in Construction – celebrates its 30th anniversary this year she’s been able to reflect upon and enjoy just how much progress she and other women have made in an industry that once rejected them. Janis loves to talk about
The tri-state area’s designers were on the front lines of a construction market choking on its excesses in 2008. Today, even if temporarily, most of the rampage seems to be over, but there is little cause for excessive optimism: colleagues across the three states remain unemployed, projects are stalled, and there are few indicators that the federal or state governments will come to the rescue to the extent they did in previous downturns. Among those still standing, there’s a growing consensus that business as usual is over, and the industry as a whole will need to reinvent itself to stay
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