Category : Construction & Design

Construction & Design

Nuts.com shells out for swanky New Jersey space

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by REW4547
Nuts.com has moved to a new corporate office headquarters at 10 Exchange Place in jersey City. A leading producer and distributor of nuts, dried fruit, snacks and pantry staples, the company retained Hollister as construction manager to develop the space across the full 28th floor penthouse providing its team with...
Construction & Design

Construction workers hail start of spring

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by REW1574
Construction workers building an extension to PS129 in College Point, Queens, are hoping they’ve said goodbye to the last of winter. Teams from Technico Construction Services, along with iron workers from Gabriel Steel Erectors, are building a 52,000 s/f addition to the existing elementary school. With temperatures hitting single digits...
Construction & Design

DOB launches no-penalty elevator inspection program

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by REW2587
The Department of Buildings announced that owners of private homes with both registered and unregistered elevators can request a DOB inspection of the device with no penalty for the next 90 days. The program comes after a woman was trapped in the elevator of a Manhattan townhouse, where she worked...
Developers join task force seeking gas pipeline solutions
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Developers join task force seeking gas pipeline solutions

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by REW1916
A new task force of business and community leaders has been formed to find short and long-term solutions to natural gas shortages at the heart of a moratorium that will start next week on new Con Edison gas connections in Westchester. The Business Council of Westchester has named 16 members...
New law to create more legal basements
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New law to create more legal basements

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by REW1840
Mayor Bill de Blasio has signed legislation to create a pathway for transforming certain basement and cellar apartments into safe, legal, affordable homes. The new law establishes a three-year demonstration program to facilitate the creation and renovation of apartments in the basements and cellars of qualifying one- and two-family homes...
EJ Electric lands contract for upgrading power authority transmission system
Construction & Design

EJ Electric lands contract for upgrading power authority transmission system

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by REW2117
E-J Electric Installation Co. has been awarded the Engineer Procure Construct (EPC) contract for Phase II of the NYPA sensor deployment program. The program allows the New York Power Authority to analyze up to 95,000 new data points across its generation and transmission system by 2019. This will improve NYPA’s...
Work gets underway on $92M seniors housing development
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Work gets underway on $92M seniors housing development

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by REW2095
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced the start of construction on Arthur Avenue Apartments, a new $91 million affordable housing development that will create 176 affordable homes for low-income seniors 62 and older. The nine-story building in the Belmont neighborhood will include 54 apartments reserved for formerly homeless seniors in need...
Camber breaks ground in Harlem for Victory Plaza homeless project
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Camber breaks ground in Harlem for Victory Plaza homeless project

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by REW2129
Camber Property Group, Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement, Inc. (HCCI), NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and NYC Housing Development Corporation (HDC) held a groundbreaking ceremony for Victory Plaza, a 136-unit, 100 percent affordable building for seniors in Harlem. The building, located at 11 West 118th Street, will...
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City to build modular homes in East New York

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by REW3161
The city is set to employ ʻnext frontierʼ building technology to develop an affordable apartment property in East New York. The Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) will develop 167 units of on City-owned land with a development team led by Thorobird Companies along with nonprofit partner Bangladeshi American...