Port Authority officials approved $65 million to keep work going on design, engineering, architecture and environmental studies.
Traffic passes the Seventh Avenue side of the Port Authority bus terminal in midtown Manhattan. The Authority's board allocated $65 million to keep work continuing on design, engineering, environmental and architecture for a replacement.It may not look like it to people using the Port Authority Bus Terminal in midtown Manhattan, but significant work is happening to ultimately replace it. Really.
There are no bulldozers, cranes and platoons of orange-vested construction crews working on the two massive buildings on 42nd Street between Seventh and Ninth avenues. But engineers, planners and architects are at work and the Port Authority’s board pumped another $65 million into the project to keep them working.
Of the $65 million approved on June 22, $49 million is added to a contract with WSP, hired in 2017 for the first phase of design, engineering work and to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement, Rick Cotton, Port Authority executive director told reporters last week.over the existing terminal and retrofit it, eliminating the need to condemn and use other property in the neighborhood.
No property would have to be condemned for the new terminal, answering a major concern from residential and business neighbors. The new terminal design also includes infrastructure for future construction of four high-rise towers over portions of the new bus terminal that could help fund it, through sale of air rights and payments in lieu of taxes shared by the city with the authority.
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