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N.Y.’s $25B Hudson Yards Hits Halfway Mark
By Jennifer Rupp
CEG CORRESPONDENT
Nearly $700M Available for State Veterans Home Funding...8
Kobelco Helps Tremson Clear Way for Amusement Park...20
New York State Fairgrounds to Gain New Expo Center...24
Table of Contents................ 4 Paving Section.............. 61-73 Attachments Section 77-101 Parts Section....................130 Auction Section...... 134-145 Business Calendar.......... 142 Advertisers Index............ 146
More than a decade ago, plans were under way for the 28-acre livework-play development in New York City’s West Side. In 2012, the Related Companies/Oxford Properties Group joint venture broke ground on the single largest piece of undeveloped property in Manhattan. The first building to be constructed was 10 Hudson Yards — a 1.7 million-sq.-ft., 47-story tower at the northeast corner of 10th Avenue and 30th Street. The LEED Platinum tower, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, opened in 2016 and is home to Coach Inc.’s world headquarters.
the planning of Hudson Yards,” said L. Jay Cross, Related Hudson Yards president. “Great neighborhoods have great healthcare providers, and by working with Mount Sinai Health System, the residential and corporate residents at Hudson Yards will have access to a seamless, integrated healthcare system that is focused on catering to their needs and schedules. Both Mount Sinai and Related share a customer-first focus and we are thrilled to create a new paradigm in healthcare here at Hudson Yards.” The first residential building in the development will open spring 2019. Fifteen Hudson Yards, the 960,000sq.-ft. LEED Gold-designed residential building, stands more than 900 ft. tall and offers 391 for-sale and rental residences. As of February, sales of the 285 condominiums had reached 50 percent. Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Rockwell Group, it is located adjacent to the High Line and The Shed, New York’s
Happening Now Scheduled to open later this year is the 1.3-million-sq.-ft. office building Hudson Yards New York photo at 55 Hudson Yards. It is situated at New York City and state have initiated major investments of the intersection of Hudson Yards, the their own to coincide with the Hudson Yards development, High Line and Hudson Park & including mass transit, new parks and cultural and recreBoulevard. A unique feature of this ational facilities. see YARDS page 46 tower is the outdoor terrace overlooking the park on the building’s tenth floor. The design also provides future tenants the opportunity to carve private, double-height terraces into the tower in flexible locations. In March, Hudson Yards markets. By Victor Paul Alvarez announced a partnership “Specific markets have not been settled on yet but CEG CORRESPONDENT with Mount Sinai Health they will include areas that are served today via existing System, and the creation of The Port Authority of New York/New Jersey and an 18,000-sq.-ft., state-ofsee FACILITY page 110 Global Container Terminals (GCT) are one the-art health center on the year into the construction of a ship-to-rail second floor of 55 Hudson port facility adjacent to the recently expandYards. The center will proed GCT Bayonne container terminal. vide comprehensive, conThe ExpressRail Port Jersey facility, or venient and exclusive care to Greenville Yard, is a $600 million project all Hudson Yards employees, that will employ 75 contractors over the residents and their families course of construction as it aims for a midwith operations scheduled to 2018 completion. (Construction began last begin in early 2019. year in May.) The project will link the GCT The ExpressRail Port Jersey facility, or Greenville Yard, is a “Providing excellent, conBayonne terminal to CSX and Norfolk $600 million project that will employ 75 contractors over the venient health care services Southern’s rail network to reach key inland course of construction. has always been a priority in
PANYNJ’s $600M ExpressRail Port Jersey Facility Construction Under Way