Wed January 25, 2017
“A Catskills Destination Reborn” as Montreign Casino Construction Continues
Empire Resorts, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary Montreign Operating Company, LLC (together with Empire and its other subsidiaries, the "Company") the new marketing campaign, "A Catskills Destination Reborn" for the Montreign Resort Casino ("Montreign")....
Lori Tobias - Wed January 25, 2017
Traffic Continues During 'Raise the Roadway' Project
Construction crews in New York and New Jersey are at work on a project that is a first for bridge construction. Crews in the joint "Raise the Roadway" venture of Skanska Koch/Kiewit Infrastructure are raising the roadway of the Bayonne Bridge from 151 ft....
Wed December 21, 2016
Kosciuszko Bridge on Budget and on Time
The largest single contract in New York State Department of Transportation (DOT) history — the Kosciuszko Bridge that links the Brooklyn and Queens waterfronts — is on budget and on time. A sum of $555 million has been allocated for the first phase, which involved removing the old span and constructing the first replacement....
Tue January 17, 2017
Syracuse Airport to Get $45 Million Upgrade, Create 869 Construction Jobs
The Syracuse airport will undergo a $45.1 million renovation over the next two years, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced today. New York State will chip in $35.8 million to redesign the 55-year-old airport. Onondaga County will contribute $1 million. Other money will come from the Syracuse Airport Authority and the federal government....
Matt Wheeler - Thu January 12, 2017
Contrasting Construction in Bulgaria
Students in the new course “Construction Management Practices in Eastern Europe” began their studies early last summer in the heart of Bulgaria, spending two weeks examining historic and modern construction sites throughout the country....
Erin Durkin - Tue January 10, 2017
City Council Diversity Bill for Construction Sites Slammed as Weak by Activist Groups
The NAACP and activist Bertha Lewis are slamming a bill being considered in the City Council Monday, which they say won't produce needed information about racial diversity at construction sites. Hazel Dukes, president of the state NAACP, and Lewis, president of the Black Institute, are pushing to require construction projects that get city subsidies to disclose the race, gender and zip code of workers they employ, whether the workers are union or non-union, and how long they remain on the job....
Tue January 10, 2017
Albany Med to Start Construction of New Pediatric ER
Albany Medical Center is scheduled Tuesday morning to announce plans for a new emergency department just for children. The new 75,000-square-foot facility will be the only emergency department of its kind in northeastern New York and western New England, according to the medical center....
Fri January 06, 2017
Gov. Cuomo Proposes 21st Century Updates to JFK Airport
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today presented a vision plan to transform JFK International Airport into an airport equipped to meet the demands of the 21st century and worthy of the State of New York. Based on the recommendations of the Governor's Airport Advisory Panel, the vision plan lays out a comprehensive, airport-wide framework to create a unified, world-class airport....
Jennifer Rupp - Fri January 06, 2017
LaGuardia Airport — Reaching New Heights
Vice President Joseph Biden and Gov. Andrew Cuomo ceremoniously kicked off the $4.2 billion construction of a new 1.3-million-square-foot Terminal B building at LaGuardia Airport in Queens on June 14th....
Wed January 04, 2017
New Subway Line, Awaited Since the 1920s, Opens in New York
It's been a construction project decades in the making, but New Yorkers' long wait for a subway under the Upper East Side of the Manhattan finally became a reality on Sunday, when a stretch of the new Second Avenue line opened up to riders....
