The 40-year-old Delancey and Essex Municipal Parking Garage in downtown Manhattan will receive a new cable façade, under a recently announced $4-million NYC Department of Transportation renovation project. Courtesy of Michielli + Wyetzner Architects The renovated garage will include a 17-ft supergraphic. A construction manager for the work has not yet been chosen, and the project will go out to bid in September, says a spokesperson for New York-based Michielli + Wyetzner Architects, which designed the façade for the five-story concrete structure. Construction is expected to begin by early 2012 with completion anticipated by the end of 2012.The design is
RSC Holdings Inc., an equipment rental provider to the industrial, maintenance and non-residential construction markets, has purchased the operations and operating assets of Elizabeth, N.J.-based Independent Aerial Equipment, a privately held aerial rental equipment supplier. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition became effective July 8. "IAE is a leading provider of aerial equipment in the largest metro market in the U.S.," which was a key reason for the purchase, says a spokesperson for Scottsdale, Ariz.-based RSC. The acquired firm will broaden RSC's customer base in the Northeast, particularly in New Jersey, New York City and Long Island.
While neither union or contractor officials have disclosed terms of a newly signed agreement with two operating engineer locals in New York, details are emerging on key work-rule changes, says an industry source. The pact was reached June 30 between Operating Engineers Locals 14 and 15 and the Building Contractors Association, Contractors Association of Greater New York and Cement League.The industry source says one significant change involves cutting overtime pay for workers who run inside and outside elevators at jobsites. Another modification would limit use of supervisory "master mechanics" on sites, the source says. The agreement with union officials still
The Mason Tenders District Council and the Contractors Association of Greater New York reached a tentative agreement June 29, says Louis Coletti, president and CEO of the Building Trades Employers’ Association. The deal could help avert a potential strike or slowdown in New York City construction. All eyes are on the Operating Engineers, which hold the most sway over potential work stoppages. Louis Coletti, president and CEO of the Building Trades Employers’ Association says, “This is a defining moment in the history of the union construction industry,” Coletti says. “New York City is the strongest union town in the country.”
Rutgers University says it has broken ground on a new 22,000-sq-ft academic and administrative center on the Atlantic Cape Community College campus in Mays Landing, N.J. where Rutgers professors have been teaching for the past five years. Rendering Courtesy of Rutgers University The $7.5-million two-story facility is scheduled to open in fall 2012. It will contain 11 classrooms, a 20-seat computer lab and a student lounge, and will accommodate up to 2,000 students.The center aims to expand academic opportunities to students from Atlantic City, Cape May and other surrounding counties, Rutgers says. The number of students enrolled on this campus
Key unions in New York City, including laborers and structural trades, agreed to a 20% wage cut yesterday, June 15 for work on Gotham West, a residential development on Manhattan’s West Side that will consist of four buildings and about 1,240 residential units, according to a recent article in Crain’s New York Business. About 500 of the units, located between West 44th and West 45th streets and 10th and 11th avenues, will be deemed affordable housing. Gotham Organization Inc., the building’s Manhattan-based developer, did not respond for comment by ENR New York press time. “I’m not surprised by this,” said Richard T.
The Yonkers Industrial Development Agency approved a hearing to negotiate an economic development incentive package for a $40 million expansion of the Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway that is expected to create 179 construction jobs and 100 permanent jobs. If an agreement is reached, the new expansion would protect the raceway’s competitiveness with Aqueduct by creating a new 60,000-sq-ft east wing with 30,000 sq ft to be used for new gaming space including 400 new gaming tables and 350 Video Lottery Terminal machines, 20,000 sq ft of new food and beverage space and 10,000 sq ft of office and
The Dept. of Environmental Protection announced the 15 winning projects of its 2011 Green Infrastructure Grant Program and awarded $3.8 million to fund the building of green infrastructure projects designed to reduce sewer overflows and improve water quality in New York Harbor including green roofs, blue roofs, porous concrete, and bioswales. The 15 winners were selected out of 52 applications by a panel that included experts from the city’s Depts of Transportation, Design and Construction, Parks and Recreation, the DEP, the mayor’s office of Long Term Planning and Sustainability and the New York State Dept. of Environmental Conservation. Together the
ArtBridge, an organization that helps transform scaffolding or sidewalk bridges into temporary outdoor art exhibits, announced a call for entries for its Brooklyn installation, Works in Progress. Artists can submit visual art that will be enlarged and displayed on the 400-ft sidewalk bridge on Flatbush Avenue on the South Side of the Atlantic Yards Development.ArtBridge installations aim to give up-and-coming artists exposure and to liven up the nearly 1-million linear ft of scaffolding across New York City. Brooklyn-based artists have up to one month to submit visual work that somehow references the artistic process. A team of curators will then
Salmar Properties, New York was selected to develop Federal Building #2, a vacant, 1.1 million-sq-ft warehouse building in Sunset Park, into a state-of-the-art industrial center. The selection was announced by the New York City Economic Development Corporation, along with Congressman Jerrold Nadler and Congresswoman Nydia M. Velázquez. Map Courtesy of NYCEDC The project will be consistent with the Sunset Park Waterfront Vision Plan for a modern industrial waterfront that is also environmentally sustainable and is expected to create 1,300 permanent industrial jobs and 400 construction jobs. The federal building development project is also part of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Waterfront Vision
