Spanning 19 acres, the 330,000-sq-ft facility incorporates shell space of a former shopping mall department store—providing easy access to roadways and public transportation, ample parking and nearby amenities for patients.
In addition to the complexity of integrating advanced energy technologies such as geothermal into a century-old historic building, the project was made even more complicated by the need to move a 12,000-lb drilling rig below grade into a subfloor below the basement with no elevator service.
Located within historic Delaware Park, the project upgraded the original museum building with 43,500 sq ft of renovated spaces and expanded it with 67,000 net sq ft of new space and 60,000 sq ft of underground parking.
A decade after Superstorm Sandy flooded New York City’s largest transit rail yard complex, the combined Stillwell Avenue Yard, Avenue X Yard and Coney Island Yard now boast enhanced resilience to withstand future storms.
No price tag, timeline or construction procurement status for the major work were disclosed in a vision plan released Oct. 17 developed with design firms Arup and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.