Queens Borough President Helen Marshall approved two projects in Downtown Flushing, Flushing Commons and Macedonia Plaza helping to revitalize the Borough of Queens and create approximately 2,600 construction jobs and 2,000 permanent jobs. Rendering courtesy of NYCEDC The $850 million Flushing Commons project will transform what is now a 5.5- acre, city-owned municipal parking lot into a mixed-use development including up to 620 residential condominiums, a 1.5-acre town square of open space with a fountain plaza, 1,600 parking spaces, a 62,000-sq-ft, state-of-the-art YMCA, 36,000 sq ft of community space, up to 275,000 sq ft of retail space and up to
The U.S Army Corps unveiled a $1.7-billion, 10-year plan this week to restore the ailing Anacostia River in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area to health. The plan, two years in the making, identifies 3,000 projects to help restore the severely polluted river and watershed spanning 176 sq miles of land through a combination of stormwater controls, stream restoration, wetland creation and restoration, fish blockage removal, reforestation and controlling trash and chemical contamination. “Now we can begin even more aggressive action to clean up the Anacostia River,” said U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), who has championed the development of
The 22,000-sq-ft St. Charles Resurrection Cemetery Welcoming and Information Center is currently under construction in Farmingdale, New York and is seeking LEED Silver certification. Rendering courtesy of BBS Architects & Engineers The Town of Babylon, which includes Farmingdale, requires all new public use buildings of more than 5,000 sq ft to comply with LEED requirement, according to Roger P. Smith, principal and lead designer for the design team BBS Architects & Engineers of New York. The design team which also includes structural engineer Ysrael A. Seinuk of New York and landscape designer Greenman-Pedersen of Babylon, New York developed a design
Photo courtesy of Assassi Omega Center Photo courtesy of Hopkins Architects Kroon Hall The American Institute of Architects and its Committee on the Environment have selected the top ten green projects that showcase excellence in sustainable design and reduced energy including Kroon Hall, part of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut and Omega Center for Sustainable Living in Rhinebeck, New York. Designed by London-based Hopkins Architects and Centerbrook Architects Planners of Centerbrook, Connecticut, Kroon Hall, the 68,800-sq-ft new home for the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies replaced a brownfield site and was charged as a net zero energy
It may not be the biggest job nor the most important, but workers at Clackamas, Ore.-based Oregon Iron Works are clamoring to work on one of the company�s most unusual projects: Ocean Power Technologies� PowerBuoy 150, a device designed to capture 150 kW of wave energy off Oregon�s coast. Photo: Ocean Power Technologies Oregon Iron Works crew, working on a wave-power prototype, hopes to build bigger generators. “The guys in the shop are pretty excited about this,” says Chandra Brown, vice president of Oregon Iron Works. “It’s pretty fun.” For the company, which typically builds bridges and boats, the job
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection is finding itself in a unique situation these days. With more than $11 billion in active construction contracts and another $3-plus billion in planning and design – with $14.6 billion more on the way in the form of a new 10-year Capital Plan – the DEP has become one of the most important owner-developers in the tri-state area, especially with most private sector building still frozen in place. “Through this down economy we’ve still managed to put out a couple billion dollars worth of work or more a year,” says James Mueller,
Four New York State trade associations representing heavy construction contractors are suing the state over Gov. David Paterson�s announcement in March that the New York Dept. of Transportation would halt payments on all statewide capital construction projects not funded through federal stimulus dollars. NYSDOT photo As many as 500 bridge and highway projects in New York State are being affected by Gov. David Paterson�s decision to halt payments on all non-stimulus funded projects. The suit, filed on April 16 in state Supreme Court, alleges that the state has violated construction contracts with hundreds of contractors working highway and bridge jobs
NYBC Holds Industry Recognition Dinner April 2010 Approximately 900 members of the building community gathered to pay tribute to four industry greats during the New York Building Congress 2009 Industry Recognition Dinner at the Grand Hyatt New York last November. EE Cruz & Company CEO Edward Cruz and Boston Properties Senior Vice President/New York Region Manager Robert E. Selsam were presented with Industry Recognition Awards. F.J. Sciame Construction Company Chairman and CEO Frank J. Sciame received the George A. Fox Public Service Award, and Special Recognition for Public Service was given to New York City Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan.
Image courtesy of West 8 Construction on New York City�s ambitious redevelopment of Governors Island is expected to begin in 2012. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Monday announced an agreement that gives the city long-term planning and development control of Governor’s Island, a 172-acre chunk of largely undeveloped real estate in New York Harbor. The announcement of the agreement preceded the mayor’s unveiling of a sweeping redevelopment plan for the one-time military base that includes the creation of a new, 87-acre public park and a waterfront promenade and public space. The city also has plans to build a
In roughly a year on the market, federally subsidized Build America Bonds for public-works projects have soared to $90 billion in volume and saved localities more than $12 billion in interest costs, the Treasury Dept. says. In a report released April 2, Treasury says that the Build America Bonds (BABs), created under last year's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, have increased in volume to $90 billion as of March 31. That equals more than 20% of the market for new municipal bonds. Critics have charged that investment firms' underwriting fees for issuing the new bonds have been too high. Treasury
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