How Severud engineers are going to lift historic Palace Theater as part of $2B retail development
The Palace Theater will be permanently raised off the ground and tucked into the new $2.5 billion TSX Tower in Times Square beginning this winter.
Category : Construction & Design
Triple Five lands incentive to build aviation education center
Mall developer Triple Five has won an incentive package to build an aviation education and research center on the site of the old Dowling College campus in Shirley, NY. The Town of Brookhaven Industrial Development Agency (IDA) announced that is has closed on a package of economic incentives that will...
Fannie Mae launches $10M challenge to build healthy houses
Fannie Mae has issued a call for ideas on healthy affordable housing as part of it part of its Innovation Challenge to build homes that are good for you. Research shows that poor quality housing can have a direct, negative impact on a person’s health. In underserved communities, affordable housing...
Town pulled up by adaptive reuse of old corset factory
CPC corrals developer, lenders to create new rental housing that will help catalyze economic opportunity
NYWCC celebrates Women of Excellence
Female trailblazers in the construction and design sectors were among the women honored last week by New York Women’s Chamber of Commerce (NYWCC). During its annual Women of Excellence awards at the Battery Gardens Restaurant in Lower Manhattan, the organization also celebrated its 16th anniversary. Guests were welcomed by Quenia...
Chinese developer tops out tallest apartment building in NJ
China Overseas America has topped out 99 Hudson at a record 900 ft. The new 79-story luxury condominium will have a total of 781 apartments when it opens last 2019 when it will officially become the tallest building in New Jersey, and the third tallest residential condominium building in the...
GFI tops out Downtown Brooklyn hotel
GFI Development and Spruce Capital have topped out 61 Bond Street, a 13-story hotel and retail property in Downtown Brooklyn. Located at 252 Schermerhorn Street), the development, which is expected to be complete in the fall of 2019, will be 178,000 s/f and comprise 287 guestrooms and 5,500 s/fof retail...
GFI tops out Downtown Brooklyn hotel
GFI Development and Spruce Capital have topped out 61 Bond Street, a 13-story hotel and retail property in Downtown Brooklyn. Located at 252 Schermerhorn Street), the development, which is expected to be complete in the fall of 2019, will be 178,000 s/f and comprise 287 guestrooms and 5,500 s/fof retail...
New tariffs expected to push construction costs further
Prices for goods and services used in construction costs climbed 6.2 percent over the past year, intensifying a cost squeeze on contractors grappling with widespread labor shortages, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America of new Labor Department data. Association officials noted that the cost increases...
State awards contracts for new energy-efficent retrofit solutions
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) has awarded six design contracts for scalable energy-efficient retrofit solutions that can be replicated throughout the entire housing industry. The contracts were awarded as part of the RetrofitNY’s High-Performance Retrofit Solutions pilot program, a first-of-its-kind effort launched earlier this year...