The $260 million NewBridge on the Charles retirement community embraces a new cottage-style model for senior housing and was completed two months ahead of schedule. Photo Courtesy Of Suffolk Construction Related Links: Best of 2010 “This project was done in a relatively short period of time with a high density of construction,” says Robert Keaffer, project director for Suffolk Construction Co., in Boston. “There was a lot happening in a relatively small space in multiple buildings that are all connected together.” Suffolk approached the 1 million-sq-ft project, started in September 2007, as a collection of individual jobs, with hybrid teams
For more than three decades, the Jets and Giants have been just as much siblings as rivals in football’s largest market – the older brother crashing at the younger brother’s Shea Stadium pad in Queens for the 1975 season while Giants Stadium was being built on New Jersey swampland, and the younger one then moving over in 1984 for an extended stay at the elder’s new home. And after both scouted options to build new digs – the Jets especially hoping to finally call one their own – they ended up choosing to bunk together again, but this time in
When Apple rolls out a new product, be it the latest iPhone or a new Manhattan retail location, consumers expect something exceptional. True to form, the store Apple planned for its $26 million West 67th Street location was its largest in North America, more spectacular—involving more challenges from a construction stand point—than any of its previous New York locations. Related Links: Best of 2010 “As a client, Apple is extremely demanding—they expect perfection, anything else will not be tolerated, whether the paperwork or the process of construction,” says Shawn Taylor, the project executive for lead contractor Shawmut Design and Construction.
Most of the demolition and construction work associated with the first $93 million phase of the Atlantic Avenue Viaduct Rehabilitation project in Brooklyn, N.Y. transpired on weekends to minimize disruption to MTA Long Island Rail Road trains. Even so, Kiewit Constructors of Woodcliff Lake, N.J., completed the job five months ahead of schedule. Photo Courtesy Of Kiewit Constructors Related Links: Best of 2010 “We tried to accomplish a tremendous amount of work in a short period of time, with half of the viaduct open with live running trains and third rail,” says Wayne Thomas, area manager for transit and transportation
PROJECT COST: $220 Million Six new buildings are under construction on the largest remaining vacant parcel of land in the Melrose Commons Urban renewal area of the South Bronx. The $220 million, 641-unit St. Ann's Terrance mixed-income residential development broke ground last summer and includes 50,000 sq ft of retail space and parking for about 350 vehicles under several of the buildings. St. Ann's Terrace Related Links: Top Projects 2009 "The size of the project and the variety of different of programs-commercial, low income, middle income and community spaces in more than a normal size of a city block-makes for
PROJECT COST: $175 Million The federal stimulus funds made available by the Obama administration for tri-state area projects have had a spotty history thus far, but at least one project has secured the funding to proceed. Photo courtesy of Conti Construction St. George Ferry Terminal Related Links: Top Projects 2009 The $175 million ramp work at the St. George Ferry terminal was the biggest stimulus project in the city when it went forward last July, and for due reason: the terminal is used by 70,000 passenger every day, and, with 23 of State Island's bus lines and the Staten Island
PROJECT COST: $119 million Since the long steep plunge of 2008, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has been confidently on the rise for over a year, gaining more than 60 percent since its lows. The top banks in trouble just two years ago are this year posting record profits. To celebrate this financial exuberance, enter the Setai: a 31-story luxury condominium tower complete with lavish spa, optional butler and maid service, and a Michelin-rated restaurant inside a former office building at 40 Broad Street. Photo by Peter Rymwid The Setai Related Links: Top Projects 2009 "It's 100 steps to the
PROJECT COST: $156 Million Starting construction on a New York residential tower in the middle of 2008 has resulted in a slew of skeletons, foreclosures, and general panic across the condo industry. But at least one team has been able to proceed-cautiously, with major cost-cutting, but retaining the original design's major aesthetic attributes. Tower 111 Related Links: Top Projects 2009 Designed by New York architect Costas Kondylis, Tower 111 will rise 48 stories at 32nd Street and 6th Avenue when completed next Jun, and, in addition to the to the rentals in a tower that features several setbacks, will include
PROJECT COST: $8.7 Billion Construction began on the $8.7 billion, 9-mi Access to the Region's Core Trans-Hudson Express Tunnel in June. Two new, twin tunnels will enable NJ TRANSIT to more than double service capacity to Midtown Manhattan's Penn Station from New Jersey. Photo: courtesy NJ transit Trans-Hudson Express Tunnel Related Links: Top Projects 2009 "The current tunnels are 100 years old this year and are in fine shape and served us well, but the ridership demand has grown to the point there are bottlenecks," says Paul L. Wyckoff, spokesperson for Access to the Region's Core, a project of NJ
PROJECT COST: $103,748,350 STV will provide full architectural-engineering design services for the design/build of the new United States Military Academy Preparatory School (USMAPS) campus at West Point, NY. J. Kokolakis Contracting, the build partner, contracted with the United States Army Corps of Engineers for the $103 million project. Illustrator: sneary architectural illustration U.S. Military Academy Preparatory School Related Links: Top Projects 2009 The 256,000-sf campus will encompass 20 acres and include student barracks, academic and administrative spaces, a full-service dining facility, parking areas, and state-of-the-art indoor and outdoor athletic facilities. The existing prep school in Fort Monmouth, NJ, is being
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