PROJECT COST: $800 Million Cost-cutting is credited with restarting construction of Related Companies $800 million mixed-used development at 440 West 42nd Street. Photo courtesy of Tishman Construction Company 440 West 42nd Street Related Links: Top Projects 2009 Construction of the 1.2 million-sq.-ft. complex was suspended following the economic downtown while the project's development costs were realign with market conditions. The 59-story glass tower, designed by Arquitectonica and Ismael Leyva Architects, New York, will include over 800 residences comprised of condominiums, market rate rentals and 163 affordable rentals, a 669-room Yotel hotel, the Signature Center, an off-Broadway theater complex, retail space
PROJECT COST: $172 million The light will soon shine faster and brighter at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, thanks to a multi-phased project to create a new 3 billion electron-volt energy storage ring that will generate X-rays and other types of light 10,000 times more intense than the current facilities. Photo courtesy of Brookhaven National Laboratory Brookhaven National Laboratory - National Synchrotron Light Source II Related Links: Top Projects 2009 A 278,000-sq-ft, 1,000-ft-dia ring structure at the heart of the new National Synchrotron Light Source II facility is already taking shape at the lab
PROJECT COST: $508 million That most famous icon of New York's island identity, the Brooklyn Bridge, was originally constructed in 1883. By 2008, however, Popular Mechanics magazine has named the landmark one of the 10 pieces of U.S. Infrastructure the country needs to fix immediately. The bridge, after all, is the oldest suspension bridge in the nation still in operation. Brooklyn Bridge Renovation Related Links: Top Projects 2009 In 2003, shortly after the August 14 citywide blackout-during which the bridge was used by pedestrians on a scale unprecedented since the attacks of Sept. 11-a Village Voice article found that people
PROJECT COST: $292 Million Buffalo Public Schools Program ensures all district schools achieve the same technology, energy and infrastructure standards. Photo: LPCiminelli Buffalo Public Schools Reconstruction Program Phase IV Related Links: Top Projects 2009 Buffalo Public Schools and LPCiminelli of Buffalo began working at the end of last year on phase IV of a comprehensive school reconstruction program, designed to transform every facility in the district into 21st-century learning centers of excellence. Ten schools will receive upgrades during the three-year, $292 million fourth phase. When program manager LPCiminelli began the $1.4 billion program in 2002, the district's schools averaged 70
PROJECT COST: $75.8 million For more than 50 years, the School of Social Work (SSW) at CUNY’s Hunter College has promoted civic engagement and dedication to public services. Thanks in part to the largest donation in CUNY’s history and a unique public-private partnership, the school will soon be able to link its programs and services directly with some of the neighborhoods it serves through a new eight-story, 147,000-sq ft building under construction in East Harlem. Rendering Courtesy of City University of New York CUNY-Hunter College School of Social Work Related Links: Top Projects 2009 Located on Third Avenue between 118th
PROJECT COST: $93 Million Binghamton University, State University of New York has embarked on a program to upgrade its on-campus housing facilities, with the Newing Community East Campus Housing project replacing an aging facility. Photo credit LeCHASE Construction East Campus Housing, Binghamton University Related Links: Top Projects 2009 "The buildings were 50 years old, and after an intense study it was found to be more advantages to build new rather than try to retrofit the existing," says Dave Vaughn, senior regional operations manager for LeCHASE Construction of Rochester, N.Y. "Plus, they have increased the capacity, increasing revenue for the university."
PROJECT COST: $722 million The tunnel boring machines chewing through Manhattan bedrock on a high-profile journey from E. 63rd St. to Grand Central Station have been getting most of the glory when New Yorkers hear about the $7.3 billion East Side Access program. But a challenging dig is also gearing in Queens, with two TBMs set to arrive this summer to slog through a mix of sand, fill, dirt, and boulders - all in a shallow water table. Photo courtesy of Granite Construction East Side Access - Queens Bored Tunnels & Structures Related Links: Top Projects 2009 The new drive
PROJECT COST: $325 Million Nine years after the Borough of Manhattan Community College's Fiterman Hall was damaged beyond repair on 9/11, a new structure is rising in its place. Rendering courtesy of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, New York Fiterman Hall Related Links: Top Projects 2009 Construction of the 14-story, 390,000-sq.-ft. Fiterman Hall, designed by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, New York, started just weeks after completing demolition of the damaged building. The new $325 million facility will house 100 classrooms and computer labs, faculty offices, a conference center, an art gallery and caf�. The original 15-story building at 30
PROJECT COST: $120 million Not even the most ardent preservationist could argue in favor of keeping the confounding maze of six stations and 12 subway lines that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is reshaping into the Fulton Street Transit Center in downtown Manhattan. One of the more prosaic portions of the multi-year, $1.4 billion effort also happens to be one of its most transformative - a $120 million contract awarded last summer to reconstruct the mezzanine and platform levels of the Broadway-Nassau Street Station for the A and C lines and to upgrade the elevators and stairs for the Nassau Street
PROJECT COST: $198 Million Consolidating the two campuses of Gateway Community College - the Long Wharf campus in New Haven and another in North Haven, Conn., began last December with the $140 million construction of a single downtown New Haven campus, scheduled to finish in May 2012. Although the project owner, the Connecticut Department of Public Works, has budgeted $198 million for the overall project, the actual construction cost is $140 million. Rendering Courtesy of Gilbane Construction Co. Gateway Community College Consolidation/Relocation Related Links: Top Projects 2009 The new campus will occupy two city blocks where landmark department stores Macy's
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