Plant in the Park
The borough’s biggest construction project is not that baseball stadium on River Avenue you’ve been hearing so much about.
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Historic Parallels
The 405,000-sq-ft American Bank Note Company Building, with its saw-toothed roofs and immense windows, is a familiar sight along the Bruckner Expressway through Hunts Point.
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Squeeze Play
It’s not easy for the new school on the block to fit in – especially when it is being built on the playground of an existing school in the middle of a residential city neighborhood. But the project team on Early Childhood Center 361 in the Norwood section of the Bronx not only has found a way to knit the new facility into its tricky location but also is using the odd site’s features to create an urban education anomaly – clear sky sightlines, daylight in basement spaces, corridors filled with natural light, and distinct playgrounds for kids of different ages. Click here >>

Affordable Platinum
Les Bluestone, president of Huntington, N.Y.-based Blue Sea Development Co., is again raising the bar for designing and constructing healthy, green affordable housing in the city with his latest project, Melrose Commons 5 in the South Bronx. Click here >>

Building Blocks
Skanska USA Building in New York—teaming up with a local community college and an economic development council—brought its Construction Management Building Blocks program to the Bronx, empowering minority, women and small-business contractors to compete and secure work on major projects. Click here >>

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