The Related Companies is plowing ahead with its preliminary construction work at the 26 - acre West Side
rail yards site, between 30th and 33rd streets,...
Not exact matches
THE BRONX — A
rail yard by Lehman College could be the ideal
site for mixed - income housing, new retail space and an expansion of the school's campus, according to a new report from the office of Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr..
Brownfield
sites range from abandoned gas stations to
rail yards and former heavy industrial manufacturing plants.
Related and the city envision the 26 - acre
site, currently an MTA - owned
rail yard, to be a massive new neighborhood, composed of new skyscrapers and about 13 million square feet of commercial and residential space.
It sits on a
site purchased by the city that once contained a
rail yard, a laundry and a plant that made gas from coal.
Richmond is nestled within a ring of five major oil refineries, three chemical companies, eight Superfund
sites, dozens of other toxic waste
sites, highways, two
rail yards, plus a port that supplies tankers.
The project presents several construction challenges: excavation of more than 500,000 cubic
yards of earth for a five - level, underground parking structure; demolition of four existing structures; rerouting of major utilities; working around the construction of a
rail station at the
site; and limited staging areas.