Just Around the Corner
New York Area Home to Many Turner Projects

by Natalie Keith

You don't have to travel far in New York City to find a Turner Construction Corporation project.

The company is building everything from office buildings to courthouses these days, with many jobs having a price tag of $100 million or more. The following is a description of some of the largest projects currently being done by Turner:

• The Kings County Supreme & Family Courthouse, Brooklyn, N.Y. Construction on the $492 million, 32-story courthouse at 330 Jay St. is expected to be completed in spring 2005. The building will house not only 950,000 sq. ft. of space for the New York State Supreme Court and the Kings County Family Court, but also five upper floors with 172,000 sq. ft. of office space.
  
  
• Times Square Tower, New York, N.Y. Construction on the $229.7 million tower was expected to be completed this month. The project, which won a 2003 Project of the Year award in the office category from New York Construction magazine, consisted of demolishing three existing buildings and constructing a 48-story, 1.2-million-sq.-ft. office tower on a full block site at 42nd Street and Seventh Avenue.
  
  
• The Hearst Building, New York, N.Y. Construction is underway on the $226 million project at Eighth Avenue and 57th Street that will serve as the Hearst Corp.'s world headquarters. When completed in 2006, it will have 42 stories and 858,000 sq. ft. of office space and will be built within and above the existing six-story Hearst building.
  
  
• Atlantic Avenue MTA Station Rehabilitation, Brooklyn, N.Y. Construction on the $200 million is ongoing. Turner is providing both construction and construction management services for the project, which will involves the full rehabilitation of the three subway stations, the Eastern Parkway IRT lines, the Brighton BMT lines, and the 4th Avenue BMT lines and the adjacent Long Island Rail Road Flatbush terminal. The project won a 2003 Award of Merit in the transit category.
  
  
• NYU School of Medicine Smilow Research Building, New York, N.Y. Construction of a new 220,000-sq.-ft., 16-story biomedical research laboratory building on the east side of the NYU Medical Center superblock is expected to be completed in February 2005.
  
  
• Time Warner Center, New York, N.Y. Turner was responsible for construction of the office space of this mammoth project in Columbus Circle. Time Warner will occupy approximately 758,000 sq. ft. of the 2.7 million mixed-use facility. It will merge Time Warner corporate and executive offices and Turner Broadcast Sales' offices with broadcast, studio, technical and office space. In addition, there will be common areas and amenities that include a conferencing center, technology room, centralized mail and copy area, commissary and media screening center.
  
  
• Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York, N.Y. Construction is expected to be completed in June for Jazz at Lincoln Center, which will occupy approximately 100,000 sq. ft. of the Time Warner Center. Intended as the first U.S. facility designed specifically for the performance and recording of jazz music and for education related to jazz music, the new facility will provide intimate theater performance spaces of 1,000 to 1,100 seats, educational programs, broadcast facilities and recording spaces. The new facility will provide two theaters, a casual café performance space, classroom and "back-of-house" broadcast, studio, recording and technical spaces.
  
  
• Queens Vocational High School, Queens, N.Y. Construction of an 86,000-sq.-ft. addition and miscellaneous work in the existing school is expected to be completed in July 2005.

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