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Selected Higher Education Projects Under Construction or in Design
It may not be booming like it was three years ago, but the higher education market is definitely breathing across the Tri State region. Here is a look at some of the most notable projects:
City University of New York (CUNY)
• At City College in Manhattan work is underway on the 200,000-sq.-ft. Advanced Science Research Center, a state of the art science, research and laboratory facility for the university. A new 200,000-sq.-ft. for City College will go up next to the center. Together the projects will cost about $700 million.
• A 60,000-sq.-ft. Botany and Earth sciences building is under construction at Lehman College. Designed by Perkins+Will, the facility is seeking LEED Gold certification.
• Turner Construction is managing the construction of $640 million, 620,000-sq.-ft. academic building for the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan. The building will consolidate space scattered over four Westside buildings.
• At Bronx Community College a 140,000-sq.-ft. instructional building designed by Robert Stern was topped off in January.
• In Lower Manhattan, the long delayed $320,000 million Fiterman Hall for the Borough of Manhattan Community College is finally under construction. The 300,000-sq.-ft facility will provide much needed classrooms, computer facilities and offices for the space constrained college.
• Design is completed for a Towe Center for Performance Arts at Brooklyn College, which will replace Gershwin Hall. The $190 million project received a substantial gift from Leonard Towe.
• Perkins Eastman has completed the design of a new 300,000-sq.-ft. academic / science building for New York City College of Technology on the site of College’s Klitgord Center, at 285 Jay Street, Brooklyn. WSP Cantor Seinuk is working on the project.
Rutgers University, New Jersey
• A $25 million, 60,000-sq.-ft. Health Sciences Center in underway at the College Avenue campus.
• The Center for Integrated Proteomics Technologies, a $47 million research and laboratory facility housing the University’s Protein Data Bank, is in construction on the Busch campus.
• Campus wide $15 million of classroom improvement are in process.
• Bidding opened in January on a 70,000-sq.-ft. housing project with space for 500 students on the Busch campus.
• In late February bidding began for the Livingston Dining Commons, a $24.7 million 60,000-sq.-ft. multi-story dining facility to replace Tillett Hall on the Livingston campus
• Planning is underway on a multi-building complex to house 1,500 students on the Livingston campus and for an $85 million project to relocate the business school to a recently purchased office tower in downtown Newark. The cost of the project includes the building purchase.
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