BellTel Lofts Gets Landmark Status at Ceremony October 2009 Also, Connecticut Building Congress holds annual awards ceremony. The New York Landmarks Preservation Commission recently held a dedication ceremony to mark BellTel Lofts located at 365 Bridge Street, as a city landmark. Pictured from left are: Ilan Bracha of Bracha Group, Prudential Douglas Elliman, David Bistricer of Clipper Equity, Brooklyn Borough President, Marty Markowitz and JJ Bistricer of Clipper Equity. (Photo courtesy of Rubenstein PR.) The Pike Company recently took home a top award for its Sports and Medical Sciences Academy Project at the 2009 Connecticut Building Congress Project Team Awards. (L-R)
The New York City Economic Development Corporation recently issued a request for proposals seeking a developer to acquire and redevelop industrial an approximately 100,000-sq-ft site in the Castle Hill section of the Bronx for industrial uses. Related Links: One World Trade Center Reaches Milestone 10 Indicted in Carpenter’s Union Corruption Investigation Brooklyn’s Tallest Building Tops Out NYC Snags $1.5 Billion in Stimulus Funds for Transportation Buildings Dept. Announces New Development Challenge Process Auxiliary Lane to be Built on Staten Island Expressway CassaNY Rises on West 45th Street Skanska to Build Research Facility in New York NJDOT Announces Start of Route
CassaNY, a 50-story independent hotel and condominium designed by CetraRuddy Inc. of New York City, is currently rising on West 45th Street in Manhattan. Rendering: HWPR Once completed, CassaNY will include 57 residences and 155 hotel rooms as well as a world-class restaurant, spa, landscaped garden, and lounge. Related Links: One World Trade Center Reaches Milestone 10 Indicted in Carpenter’s Union Corruption Investigation Brooklyn’s Tallest Building Tops Out NYC Snags $1.5 Billion in Stimulus Funds for Transportation Buildings Dept. Announces New Development Challenge Process Auxiliary Lane to be Built on Staten Island Expressway NYCEDC Seeks Industrial Development for Bronx Site
New York City’s Department of Buildings has announced a new development challenge process in which architects and engineers are required to submit online diagrams of new buildings and major enlargements. Related Links: One World Trade Center Reaches Milestone 10 Indicted in Carpenter’s Union Corruption Investigation Brooklyn’s Tallest Building Tops Out NYC Snags $1.5 Billion in Stimulus Funds for Transportation Auxiliary Lane to be Built on Staten Island Expressway NYCEDC Seeks Industrial Development for Bronx Site CassaNY Rises on West 45th Street Skanska to Build Research Facility in New York NJDOT Announces Start of Route 295 Rehabilitation Proposals Sought to Transform
A grand jury recently indicted New York City’s carpenter’s union chief and nine other members and contractors following a sweeping investigation that resulted in allegations of fraud, racketeering and accepting bribes. Related Links: One World Trade Center Reaches Milestone Brooklyn’s Tallest Building Tops Out NYC Snags $1.5 Billion in Stimulus Funds for Transportation Buildings Dept. Announces New Development Challenge Process Auxiliary Lane to be Built on Staten Island Expressway NYCEDC Seeks Industrial Development for Bronx Site CassaNY Rises on West 45th Street Skanska to Build Research Facility in New York NJDOT Announces Start of Route 295 Rehabilitation Proposals Sought to
The Board of the New York City Industrial Development Agency will assist new industrial and manufacturing company, Best Mounting, acquire and renovate a 55,000-sq-ft facility located on 130-11 Atlantic Avenue in Jamaica, Queens by approving a sales, real estate, and mortgage recording tax incentive package. Related Links: One World Trade Center Reaches Milestone 10 Indicted in Carpenter’s Union Corruption Investigation Brooklyn’s Tallest Building Tops Out NYC Snags $1.5 Billion in Stimulus Funds for Transportation Buildings Dept. Announces New Development Challenge Process Auxiliary Lane to be Built on Staten Island Expressway NYCEDC Seeks Industrial Development for Bronx Site CassaNY Rises on
Terrence O’Neal Architect LLC of New York City is performing a group of multi-family rehabilitations in Brooklyn and Queens as part of the Neighborhood Homes program of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development. The work will include the full-scale renovations of nine apartment buildings in Bedford Stuyvesant and two single-family homes in Hollis, Queens. Photo: Terrence O’Neal Architect LLC The multi-family rehabilitations performed by TONA will include the full-scale renovations of nine apartment buildings in Brooklyn and Queens as part of the Neighborhood Homes program of the New York City Department of Housing and Preservation and
Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Robert C. Lieber and New York City Economic Development Corporation President Seth W. Pinsky recently announced $100 million in funding for fourteen capital projects across the borough of Queens that will create approximately 400 new jobs. Related Links: One World Trade Center Reaches Milestone 10 Indicted in Carpenter’s Union Corruption Investigation Brooklyn’s Tallest Building Tops Out NYC Snags $1.5 Billion in Stimulus Funds for Transportation Buildings Dept. Announces New Development Challenge Process Auxiliary Lane to be Built on Staten Island Expressway NYCEDC Seeks Industrial Development for Bronx Site CassaNY Rises on West 45th Street Skanska
The Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation has issued a Request for Proposals to develop a six-acre site, known as Admiral’s Row, and turn it into a neighborhood retail center attached to a supermarket on the western edge of the yard. Related Links: One World Trade Center Reaches Milestone 10 Indicted in Carpenter’s Union Corruption Investigation Brooklyn’s Tallest Building Tops Out NYC Snags $1.5 Billion in Stimulus Funds for Transportation Buildings Dept. Announces New Development Challenge Process Auxiliary Lane to be Built on Staten Island Expressway NYCEDC Seeks Industrial Development for Bronx Site CassaNY Rises on West 45th Street Skanska to
New York City Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Robert C. Lieber announced $76.4 million in new infrastructure improvements to transform Long Island City into a center for commercial, residential and retail development. Renovations for Queens Plaza began recently on the site of a former commuter parking lot at Queens Plaza North. The lot will become a portion of a 1.5-acre landscaped signature open space complete with artist-designed benches and pavers, and a continuous protected bikeway and pedestrian walkway complementing the nearby Jackson Avenue Streetscape Project which began in fall 2008 and will be completed in fall 2010. Rendering: NYCEDC The
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