Category : Construction & Design

Transformation underway at historic Bronx post office

REW March 17, 2016 March 17, 2016

by REWMarch 17, 2016March 17, 20161680

Hollister Construction Services is currently transforming the former and semi-vacant 175,000 s/f Bronx General Post Office at 558 Grand Concourse at East 149th Street in The Bronx. The property is being transformed with shops and marketplace retail on the ground floor, retail space and a downsized post office on the...

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Fashion brand Notations Inc. takes space at 525 Seventh Avenue

REW March 16, 2016 March 16, 2016

by REWMarch 16, 2016March 16, 20162961

Women’s fashion brand, Notations Inc. has committed to a 25,000 s/f of space at Olmstead Properties’ 525 Seventh Avenue. Notations Inc. plans to relocate and expand its corporate showrooms and offices from 1407 Broadway to a full floor at 525 Seventh Avenue that previously housed a division of Jones New...

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Housing demand fuels construction cost hike

REW March 16, 2016 March 16, 2016

by REWMarch 16, 2016March 16, 20161843

New York City’s climbing construction costs are a harbinger of the strongest new residential demand in over half a century, according to New York Building Congress President Richard T. Anderson. An NYBC report released today (Wednesday), shows that costs rose at twice the national rate over the course of 2015...

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$41B worth of apartment towers, offices changing the NYC skyline

REW March 9, 2016 March 9, 2016

by REWMarch 9, 2016March 9, 20161977

The value of New York City construction starts skyrocketed in 2015, fueled by a continued wave of major residential development projects and the start of three major office towers, according to a New York Building Congress analysis of construction data from Dodge Data & Analytics. The total dollar value of...

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DeSimone collects an engineering award for work on 170 Amsterdam

REW March 3, 2016 March 3, 2016

by REWMarch 3, 2016March 3, 20162096

DeSimone Consulting Engineers of New York City has earned a National Recognition Award for exemplary engineering achievement in the American Council of Engineering Companies’ (ACEC) 49th annual Engineering Excellence Awards for the structural design of 170 Amsterdam in Manhattan. The 20-story, 236,000 s/f residential high-rise features a concrete exoskeleton with...

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Victor Mirontschuk inducted to builders Hall of Fame

REW March 3, 2016 March 3, 2016

by REWMarch 3, 2016March 3, 20161571

Recognizing his “considerable contributions” to residential design and construction, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) inducted Victor Mirontschuk into its Best in American Living Awards (BALA) Hall of Fame at the annual International Builders Show in Las Vegas. As founder and president of the architectural firm EDI International, Mirontschuk...

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Mott Haven a magnet for developers

REW March 3, 2016 March 3, 2016

by REWMarch 3, 2016March 3, 2016934

Treetop Development has acquired a development site located at 121-129 East 144th Street on the northeast corner of 144th Street and Gerard Avenue in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx. Located in a Special Mixed Use District zoning area (MX-13), the property has 68,326 buildable square feet, as-of-right with...

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Engineers brace for driverless car craze, warn governments to ready roads

REW March 2, 2016 March 2, 2016

by REWMarch 2, 2016March 2, 20161013

As human drivers trudge towards becoming obsolete, the roads that cars have battered since the Model T remain stuck in the early 1900s. WSP | Parsons Brickerhoff, an engineering and professional services firm, is proposing an upgrade, releasing a guide for instituting policy and infrastructure updates to accommodate the coming...

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IN PICTURES: Robert Stern book launch at 520 Park

REW February 23, 2016 February 23, 2016

by REWFebruary 23, 2016February 23, 20161959

Zeckendorf Development, hosted the book launch event for City Living: Apartment Houses by Robert A. M. Stern Architects at the sales gallery for 520 Park Avenue, a new luxury residential tower created by Zeckendorf Development, with Park Sixty LLC and Global Holdings. In the new book, four partners of Robert...

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WHO’S NEWS, Construction & Design: Frizzell named VP, Dinkels joins AFG

REW February 18, 2016 February 18, 2016

by REWFebruary 18, 2016February 18, 20161891

The New Jersey chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA-NJ) announced that Verity Frizzell, AIA, of Bay Head, N.J., will serve as the organization’s first vice president in 2016. A commercial and residential architect with more than two decades of experience, Frizzell has served the organization in various capacities...