As part of post-pandemic efforts to lure employees back to the office, this 19,000-sq-ft space on the 61st floor of One Vanderbilt Ave. for a confidential client includes amenities such as a coffee bar and a kitchen with commercial-grade equipment.
Revitalization of the 48-story, 1980s-era office building included a full upgrade of the lobby, plaza, restaurant, interconnecting stairs and communal spaces with sleek, high-end finishes as well as replacement of key mechanical and fire suppression equipment.
Upgrading an atrium, part of the Henry Bendel luxury retailer’s store for decades, allows it to connect with a neighborhood building on its west side and another building on its south side to expand across four floors.
A new interchange and four new bridges serve the more than 78,000 daily vehicles that access area industrial and commercial properties, including the Hunts Point Food Distribution Center, and remove thousands of trucks from local streets.
This design-build project was deftly coordinated in one of the most congested highway interchanges in the country. The interchange includes 10 lanes, more than 20 highway alignments and 11 curved and skewed bridge structures that connect four highways and two airports.
Capable of performing 40 million routine diagnostic tests annually, the 263,477-sq-ft, two-story wet laboratory with a five-story, 375,000-sq-ft parking structure for Quest Diagnostics is the world’s largest automated specimen testing facility.
Flooding and other building damage from Superstorm Sandy in 2012 is a distant memory following capital improvements that included a 10-story addition, interior renovations, resilient power systems and a new 4-ft-high floodwall.