A former Governor’s Island military warehouse dating to 1870 underwent a renovation to create the new Lower Manhattan Culture Council Arts Center—a safe, comfortable and engaging studio and exhibition space where emerging artists can create and display their works in a dynamic gallery and studio space that also includes administrative offices.
The $396-million facility rehabilitation program erased years of disrepair and deterioration, restoring the historic station’s appearance and functionality.
Thanks to a comprehensive adaptive reuse effort involving specialized contractors and preservationists, Tammany Hall is now a modern 63,700-sq-ft mixed-use space, rebranded as 44 Union Square East.
Faced with a highly constrained site and a mandate to minimize disruptions to airport operations, the project team developed innovative strategies to phase construction of the new seven-gate concourse even before its strategic design took shape.
Standing in the way of a new Ferry Homeport at the Brooklyn Navy Yard was a substandard Pier C, which led to a $50-million project to demolish the old 81-ft by 690-ft timber structure and replace it with a modern steel pipe pile and concrete deck pier.
Precast concrete panels with Lego-style connections form the building core for team's fast-track rehab of a 4-story Manhattan freight terminal into the tech giant's 12-story NYC headquarters.
The $2.7-billion facility, New Jersey's largest-ever Port Authority NY and NJ project, is much-anticipated economic driver in virus-ravaged region, but COVID impacts could alter its scope and schedule.