New Jersey Voters Face Transportation Funding
Measure on Ballot

by Tom Stabile

Garden State construction and labor groups are campaigning for a constitutional amendment to commit 10.5¢ per gallon of the state gasoline tax to the trust fund, up from 9¢ now.

"We're trying to get the full yield on the gas tax - close the loopholes and fill the potholes," said Rob Lewandowski, spokesman for the Laborers' International Union of North America's eastern region.

The fund generates about $700 million annually, but this year nearly all of it is going to debt service, said Brian Tobin, executive director of both the Associated General Contractors of New Jersey and the New Jersey Asphalt Pavement Association. In an effort to fix the immediate problem earlier this year, New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine initiated several reforms to add money to the fund in the short term, including a refinancing for a lot of the debt.

The ballot measure is intended to help that effort. The state legislature already approved it, but because it requires a constitutional change, voters must also ratify it.

The extra 1.5 cents will add about $75 million annually to the fund, Tobin said. But while both of his organizations support the ballot measure, it is not a full solution.

"It's a stopgap financially," he added. "They needed to do something."

Tobin said that it is at least in keeping with an effective long-term philosophy.

"We in the contracting industry believe in a user fee, pay as you go, so you're not relying on debt and not have to pay for it in the long run," Tobin added. "It's almost impossible to get taxes passed here."

The proponents are planning a radio buy in the week prior to the election to promote a "Vote Yes on 3" campaign. There is little if any organized opposition to the measure, Lewandowski said.

"We built a coalition that not only includes the construction industry, but also leaders from schools, municipalities, seniors groups," he added. "We've tried to cast the net wide for people who are interested in our roads, our rails, our airports, our ports."

New Jersey voters will also be voting on whether to change the constitution to allow a portion of funds from the Corporation Business Tax currently dedicated to various environmental cleanup and pollution control programs to also fund new development of recreational facilities on state parks and other open space.

Voters had approved a constitutional change several years ago under a "Clean and Green" coalition to dedicate 4 percent of the tax to a variety of measures, said Michael McGuiness, executive director of the New Jersey Chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties. The funds are divvied between programs to clean up underground storage tanks, private brownfields, water and air pollution, and state-controlled remediation sites.

McGuinness said his group initially worried that the measure would reduce funds available for private developers, but the careful wording of the measure and the complex formula of the fund will largely redirect money from water programs, state cleanups, and the underground tank program into the new recreational projects stream.

"We don't have any problem with this at all," McGuinness said.

The measure is largely supported by environmental groups in an effort to get dedicated funding for an otherwise poorly funded state park system, and McGuinness said he has heard of no organized opposition.

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New York Air Crash Damage Is Confined to Small Area

10/23/2006 By Heather Hatfield with Nadine Post


Silvian Marcus was in a meeting at 7 World Trade Center when he got the call. A plane had struck "his building."

Marcus, CEO of WSP Cantor Seinuk, a large structural engineering firm in New York City, says he looked around. The building he was in was built as the result of a plane crash five years earlier.

On Sept. 11, 2001, 7 World Trade Center was destroyed by fire and falling debris from the twin towers. Was his secretary talking about the new 7 World Trade?

"Here I was in this new building, this strong building that we engineered, and I get this call," Marcus says. "Of course, I was then to find out it was The Belaire."

On Oct. 11 at about 2:30 p.m., New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle and his flight instructor, Tyler Stanger, took off from Teterboro Airport, Teterboro, N.J., in a 2002 Cirrus SR20. The single-engine plane rounded the Statue of Liberty before turning up the East River. Just north of 72nd Street, the plane took a 180° turn. At 2:42 p.m., the plane crashed into 524 E. 72nd street, a 50-story building known as The Belaire, killing both Lidle and Stanger.

A New York City Fire Dept. spokesperson says firefighters arrived at the scene at 2:46 p.m. and the fire was out by 4:34 p.m.

The plane penetrated the concrete- framed building with brick facade at the 40th floor, says the New York Dept. of Buildings. The 39th and 41st floor sustained collateral damage, a spokesperson says.

Marcus, who was Cantor Seinuk's principal in charge of The Belaire when it was built in the late 1980s, ran out into the rain to hail a taxi for the Upper East Side. He arrived on the accident scene but the fire department was not allowing access to the building. "The fire chief told me not to worry," Marcus says. "He said there were no structural problems."

The next day, Marcus sent two of his engineers to inspect the damage. The Cirrus SR20 penetrated the brick facade in between two columns, Marcus says. The brick is supported with relief angles on each floor, so the "damage was local," Marcus says.

Inside the building, the engineers looked for visible cracks in the concrete floors but found none. In a serious fire, concrete usually delaminates, but none occurred, Marcus says. The firm recommended further tests on four apartments. The Belaire was re-occupied the night of the crash with the exception of seven apartments, the Buildings Dept. says. A vacate order remains in effect for those apartments.

The Belaire has a concrete frame with concrete core sheer walls to provide lateral support. The building was completed in 1989, 10 years before the New York City Building Code Local Law 10 required sprinklers in residential portions buildings.

There are four below-grade floors for parking, Marcus says. The first 15 above-grade floors are owned by the nearby Hospital for Special Surgery and are used for offices and temporary residences. The upper floors are condominiums.

Because of the variation in usage of the building, the column spacing shifts at different points in the structure. The performance of the building was "excellent," Marcus says.

Bidding Set for Subway Tunnels

New MTA Subway Tunnels Set for Bidding

Construction bids for two major Metropolitan Transportation Authority subway projects in Manhattan - the $3.8 billion first leg of the new Second Avenue line and the $2 billion extension of the No. 7 line - are set to go out by the end of the year, said Mysore Nagaraja, president of the agency's capital construction unit, at an industry briefing in New York.

And Nagaraja said the winning contractor may well bear strong resemblance to the team that won a $428 million contract from the MTA over the summer for its other big Manhattan tunneling job, a 1-mi., four-tube dig that will connect a new station at Grand Central Terminal to Long Island Rail Road trains from Queens

That contract for the $6.3 billion East Side Access project went to a joint venture of Dragados USA, a unit of Madrid-based ACS Group, and Judlau Contracting of College Point, N.Y., a Queens contractor that handles its share of more routine MTA work.

The rub of the joint venture's success is that the tunneling for the 2-mi. Second Avenue segment and the 7,000-ft.-long No. 7 project both will require advanced boring techniques and equipment used in other parts of the world but seldom in New York.

"You have these European contractors coming in and that's a big challenge to the local contractors," Nagaraja said.

While the winning bid may well be a repeat of a local contractor and a European firm, Nagaraja said that the advanced level of work will raise the bar and attract local players.

"That really will be the challenge to everybody to be more innovative," he added. "The local guys are now going to sharpen their pencils. It's going to be a healthy type of competition that will ultimately benefit the public."

The No. 7 contract labeled C-26503, which Nagaraja would only say is coming out "later this year" in response to bidders' questions, would cover running tunnels, caverns, and station structures in the extension that will stretch the existing line from its terminus at 42nd Street in Times Square to the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on Manhattan's Far West Side. The $900 million to $1 billion job will go out under an RFP process, as opposed to a low-bidder project, said Philip McGrade, the MTA's program manager for the project.

In a change to previous plans, the first contract has grown to incorporate all of the heavy civil structural work for the alignment. It will start with a shaft at W. 25th Street that will include the TBM assembly chamber and an area that will serve as future train storage.

The contractor would then tunnel northward along 11th Avenue, digging out a cavern for the 34th Street station at the convention center, then turn eastward at 41st Street as it heads toward Eighth Avenue. The project will cross under several Amtrak rail tunnels and the Lincoln Tunnel. The contract would include an option for the contractor to conduct the open-cut excavation for the box of a station at 10th Avenue and 41st Street.

"We're assuming we can work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, though we do have to meet noise monitoring standards," McGrade said at the briefing.

The project, which New York City is funding out of its own capital monies, also requires the city to finalize takings of several properties that would be used for stations and shafts along the route, a process that Nagaraja said is expected to be complete later this year.

The Second Avenue project would have two contracts going out, one for construction management consultant services, and a second, 37-month low-bid contract for construction of phase 1 of the line, which will run tunnels from a new 92nd Street station to the existing 63rd Street station on the F line.

The project would also include excavation for stations at 86th Street and 72nd Street, as well as tunnels stretching farther north to be used as storage capacity. Combined with future phases, the Second Avenue line in Manhattan is envisioned as $16 billion project running 8.1 miles from East Harlem to Wall Street, with future phases possible in Brooklyn and the Bronx.

Both projects would require a 19-ft., 6-in. inside diameter, precast segmental binder tunnel, though Nagaraja said the agency might consider cast-in-place concrete.

The No. 7 line is expected to open in 2012, while the first leg of the Second Avenue subway would open in 2013.

Pritzker Prize Winners Flock to Region

New WTC Tower Designs

The trio of world-class architects commissioned to design Towers 2, 3, and 4 at the World Trade Center in Manhattan recently released their designs, giving shape to what the new 10-million-sq.-ft. complex may look like in 2012 when the buildings open.

Lord Norman Foster of London-based Foster and Partners, Richard Rogers of Richard Rogers Partnership of London, and Fumihiko Maki of Tokyo-based Maki and Associates were tapped over the last year to design the towers, which will ring around the eastern edge of the site. Silverstein Properties of New York, developer of the three towers, created a studio in its recently completed 7 World Trade Center office building for the design teams to coordinate shared elements such as underground infrastructure.

Foster, a Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate, designed the 78-story Tower 2, which will be known as 200 Greenwich Street and offer 2.3 million sq. ft. of office space. The 1,254-ft.-tall tower will also have 143,000 sq. ft. of retail space, a central cruciform core, and four main blocks containing column-free office floors. Starting at the 59th floor, the glass façade will slant at a sharp westward angle.

The Rogers design for Tower 3 at 175 Greenwich St. will rise 71 stories to 1,155 ft., with 2.1 million sq. ft. of office space, five trading floors, and 133,000 sq. ft. of retail space. Positioned as the middle building, it will use diamond-shaped structural bracing, allowing for column-free spaces at the corners.

Tower 4 at 150 Greenwich St., designed by Maki, also a Pritzker Prize winner, will offer 1.8 million sq. ft. of office space in its 947-ft.-tall, 61-story frame, including five floors of retail space. The sleek-faced tower's façade will change color with the light of day.

WSP Cantor Seinuk of New York is structural engineer for Towers 2 and 3, while Leslie E. Robertson Associates of New York has that role for Tower 4. The rough $4.5 billion budget for the three towers is being developed into precise estimates, a Silverstein spokesman said.

The firm is striving for gold-level Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design ratings for all three towers and will mimic Freedom Tower and 7 World Trade Center in incorporating code-exceeding life-safety features. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the entire site, is building a new bathtub that will provide a foundation for the new towers along Church Street.

Koolhaas to Design Jersey City Tower

A new 1.3-million-sq.-ft. residential development that will offer 710 condominium units in the burgeoning waterfront district of Jersey City, N.J., has signed on a famous designer in Rem Koolhaas of the Netherlands-based Office for Metropolitan Architecture.

The 111 First Street project, valued at $400 million to $450 million, will offer 16,000 sq. ft. of art galleries, 52,000 sq. ft. of retail, and 120 work-live units for artists. Developed by two New York-based firms, BLDG Management and Athena Group, the project will move past a battle waged over the site for several years, after the artist tenants of a former tobacco factory onsite refused to leave to make way for a then-$100 million planned development.

The tenants and developer reached an agreement in early 2005, with the tenants agreeing to leave and the developer waiving back rent.

But a new battle began last year when BLDG and its New Gold Equities affiliate filed a federal lawsuit against Jersey City, alleging that the municipality was hindering the owner's development efforts at both 111 First St. and a property at 110 First St. The conflict over the 111 building involved the developer's contention that it could not preserve the 400,000-sq.-ft. complex because of structural defects in the eight timber and masonry buildings erected in stages starting in 1870.

The developer and city finally settled in July, when the two sides entered into a consent degree. The deal set new zoning rules for the site, while the developers agreed to help the city develop a Power House Arts Residence District that will retain the local artists' community that has sprouted in the area over the past 15 years.

The settlement called for the reconstruction of the 111 First Street façade by utilizing the original bricks "to the extent possible" and listed other design-specific considerations related to space usage. The developers also agreed to construct affordable housing units and the 120 live-work units for artists, as well as to provide a "high quality architectural design."

Koolhaas was the Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate in 2000. According to the July consent filing with the federal district court in Newark, N.J., the developers had also considered hiring David Childs, a prominent architect who works in the New York office of Chicago-based Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

The agreement also specified future development plans for the 110 First St. site, calling for a 360,000-sq.-ft. structure not exceeding 345 units or 350 ft. in height. It calls for setting aside space for a restaurant, sculpture garden, garage, and a façade allowing the "permanent display of durable public art." <<

Soccer Stadium Kicks Off

New $200 Million Stadium Part of $1 Billion Development

Work is under way on a new 25,000-seat stadium in Harrison, N.J., that will be the New York metropolitan area's first facility built especially for professional soccer. The facility is the hub of a planned mixed-use complex valued at $1 billion overall.

The stadium will be home for the New York Red Bulls, the Major League Soccer franchise that had been known as the New York/New Jersey MetroStars until earlier this year, when Austria-based Red Bull GmbH, a soft drink maker, bought the team from AEG, a Los Angeles-based sports and entertainment company. AEG will still develop the stadium however, which will be known as Red Bull Park.

The $100 million stadium will feature a 360 degree roof-canopy that covers most of the seating area and mimics the style of European soccer venues. The facility will also have locker rooms, customized sound and lighting systems, high-quality turf, and 53 luxury suites. AEG is funding the stadium budget.

The stadium project involves another $100 million in sitework and infrastructure, of which Hudson County is funding $60 million for roads and parking facilities. The Town of Harrison has put up $40 million for the purchase of the land, demolition of existing structures, and site abatement.

Upon its completion in 2008, the facility will join six other soccer-only stadiums built elsewhere in the country in recent years for MLS teams. It will also host concerts, clinics, and other sporting events.

The public-private stadium project is part of the broader Harrison MetroCentre complex on which Advance Realty Group plans to break ground in 2008, after the completion of extensive civil work to create a new roadway grid on the 110-acre site. The development will feature 3 million sq. ft. of office space, 300,000 sq. ft. of retail space, 3,500 residential units, a hotel, and 10,000 parking spaces, all within walking distance of the PATH subway system and Newark's Ironbound district.

Bridgeport Developer to Go LEED Platinum

Connecticut Complex Aims for Renewable Energy Systems

A 7-million-sq.-ft. mixed-use development is expected to break ground in the second quarter next year in Bridgeport, Conn., with an emphasis on using solar, water, and wind power.

The $1.5 billion Steel Point development would reclaim a mostly vacant industrial waterfront property by adding 3,500 residential units, a 400-slip marina, 160,000 sq. ft. of office space, 1.1 million sq. ft. of retail space, and a 2,800-ft.-long public promenade.

"It will be a live-work-shop-play community," said Dan Pfeffer, president of New York-based Midtown Equities, the lead developer.

The complex would generate 5 to 7 MW of power from solar, wind, and hydroelectric resources toward the projected annual 45 to 60 MW of consumption at build out in 2013 or 2014, said Herb Hauser, president of Midtown Technologies, the developer's energy consulting affiliate, which designed the plan.

The solar power would come through 2.5 to 3.5 MW generated by roof and window photovoltaic cells geared to heat hot water, supply heat, and create electricity. The project would generate 1.5 to 2.5 MW from wind-powered microturbines integrated into the design of tall buildings. And another 1 to 1.5 MW would come from hydrokinetic systems tapping the nearby waves and tides with generation from offshore power buoys or water turbines.

The whole complex also aims for energy-efficient design. Hauser said Midtown expects that nearly all of the property would attain a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design platinum rating, the highest on the scale.

"We want to make sure we've done all we can to not waste energy," Hauser said.

The 52-acre site was moving through a three-step municipal process to change its zoning this fall. The city had used its eminent domain powers over the years to vacate most of the property, and had already demolished various structures. Midtown negotiated deals this year to buy out the few tenants left, including an old marina and an oyster company, as well as United Illuminating, a New Haven, Conn., utility that owned 15 acres on the site.

"This was an old industrial property with virtually nothing left," Pfeffer said. "There was a lot of contaminated soil that was cleaned up."

Midtown became a majority partner in the project last year, joining Bridgeport Landing Development, the firm that had won an RFP from the city to develop the site three years ago. He said Midtown expanded the original proposal by adding retail and residential space, with the current design based on a master plan and a circulation and massing outline, both developed by New York-based Perkins Eastman.

The first phase starting next year would erect an 800,000-sq.-ft. retail center along with some residential units on a part of the property not dependent on the extensive marine work required for the overall development. Midtown has not yet hired a construction manager, but has tapped McLaren Engineering of West Nyack, N.Y., as a consulting, civil, and marine engineer. The property juts out into Bridgeport Harbor where the Pequonnock River and the Yellow Mill Channel meet north of the Long Island Sound, giving it an extensive waterfront with "excellent prevailing winds and a significant amount of sunny days for that part of Connecticut," Hauser said.

The decision to focus on renewable energy came from a business standpoint, with an eye toward using a "free source" of energy for the long-term, Hauser said.

It isn't clear yet whether the developer, the buyers of the units in the development, or the city will ultimately control the energy generation equipment, he added.

The development would also have a streetcar loop system connecting it to downtown transit facilities.

SCA to Launch $9 Billion in Work

N.Y.C.'s School Agency to Spend $3 Billion a Year for 3 Years

by Heather Hatfield

The New York City School Construction Authority has $3 billion to spend every year for the next three years. In the past, that announcement would have gotten the stereotypical New Yorker response from the design and construction industry: "yeah...good luck with that." But today, the industry is raising an eyebrow.

In fiscal year 2007 which started July 1, 2006, the SCA plans to build 13 news schools, complete more than 700 capital improvement projects, invest in science laboratories and auditorium projects in all five boroughs. The capital plan is fully funded, and the money ready to go. The overall plan calls for building 100 new schools and 2,000 capital projects.

"Given the scale and scope of the work ahead of us, we need to be at the top of our game," says Sharon L. Greenberger, recently appointed president and CEO of the New York City School Construction Authority. In the past, the SCA was not known for even placing in the top five.

Since the agency was created in 1989 to fix the very broken process of building and improving New York City's stock of 1,200 facilities, the SCA's reputation has ebbed and flowed.

For the better part of the last 10 years, contractors across the city did not want to do business with the New York School Construction Authority for a myriad of reasons - slow payment, archaic design guidelines, close outs took forever, change orders weren't processed quickly and many more.

"My Holy Grail horror story was the time that I had a $1.5 million change order on a $3.6 million electrical contract," says Fred Levinson, president, Levinson and Santoro Electric Corp. and current president of the New York City Subcontractor's Trade Association. "I never got a penny of it until the three-year job was complete."

Levinson says the agency has come a long way. "Do they have their house in order? As well as can be expected given the number of jobs they have to put out and the scope of those projects. It's a very difficult thing to do."

To improve the project close-out process, the SCA now uses total building commissioning techniques to assure quality and to close out projects more quickly. Communication tools have improved so the entire team can work closely together on speeding along project close-outs.

To improve the change order process, the SCA now allows project managers to approve changes under $25,000. Changes over $25,000 get negotiated quickly by a change order unit. If the contractor and the SCA can't agree on a price, the SCA issues a unilateral change order that the contractor can bill against until a price is agreed upon, which should not be more than 30 days after the change order is granted. Since the SCA has a contract that requires contractors to execute on change orders whether they be negotiated out or not, this new process helps keep work and money flowing together.

"One of our biggest complaints in the past was that our change order process took too long" said Chester Yee, vice president project management. "We think this new system addresses that."

The payment process has improved, Levinson says. Over the summer he had two emergency contracts that had to be complete before school went into session in September. He asked for a payment up front for mobilization, and payment every two weeks, and the SCA did it. "Not only did they do it for my job, they did it for all job," he says. "You can't find another agency that will do that."

Industry sources credit Sharon Greenberger and Chester Yee for the positive changes at the agency.

"I'd say the SCA is now the best-run agency in city and state of New York," says Louis J. Coletti, president and CEO of the Building Trades Employers' Association, a group that represents over 1,500 union contractors in the city. His group and the Building and Construction Trades Council were instrumental last year in creating a program labor agreement with the SCA that provides SCA with straight time plus 5 percent labor rates for second and third shift work. In return, all contractors on these projects - even non-union -- must use union labor.

"There's a new sheriff in town," Levinson says. "She's a business person and she understands that things have to flow. I hope she's there a long time - at least until I retire."

SCA Goes Green

As if cranking out 100 new schools and 2,000 capital improvement projects next year weren't enough, the NYC SCA will be doing it green. With all new design projects commencing January 1, the SCA will be applying new Green School Standards and a Green School Rating System to all projects.

The SCA will create guidelines that will incorporate water and energy conservation requirements mandated in the new Local Law 86 right into a green school rating system, says E. Bruce Barrett, vice president, architecture and engineering for the SCA. In addition, the guidelines will offer ways to reduce the costs and complexity of implementing sustainable design.

The system will be based on LEED credits, but will be tailored to a single building type. "Because we are developing these guidelines just for schools, we will be able to better environmental and health benefits than LEED can alone," Barrett says.

One of Barrett's challenges is instituting these new guidelines while maintaining an aggressive design schedule for new and expansion projects across the city.

New N.J. Light Rail and Conn. Hwy Projects

Rt. 7 Project Begins

A six-contract project to widen and reconstruction major portions of Route 7 in southeastern Connecticut on a line from Norwalk to Danbury began this fall. The contracts are valued at $200 million, along with roughly $40 million in inspection and utility relocation work, according to the Connecticut Department of Transportation.

The agency awarded a $35 million contract in August to Tilcon Connecticut of New Britain for a segment of the reconstruction and widening effort in Wilton that is expected to run three years. The initial effort will include the installation of environmental erosion and sedimentation controls; the addition of new water main, sewer, and drainage pipes; and temporary widening of the road in order to prepare for future construction tasks. Dewberry-Goodkind of New Haven, Conn., assisted on the design.

Widening work is also about halfway complete on the Rt. 7 expressway in the Danbury area in an effort that began last year with Tilcon as contractor and Parsons Transportation group of Boston aiding on design.. That project combines with a second phase planned for 2008, and together they total $40 million in construction value.

Other projects are set to begin in the next few years, including the $100 million construction effort one the final portion of the Rt. 7-Merritt Parkway interchange in Norwalk in spring 2008, with Purcell Associates of Glastonbury, Conn., on design, and a $25 million widening of the route from Norwalk to Wilton in summer 2009, with Earth Tech of Glastonbury, Conn., contracted for design services.

NJ Transit Starts New Hudson Light Rail Extension

New Jersey Transit is planning to issue a design-build contract for the construction of a $89 million, 1-mi. extension of its Hudson-Bergen Light Rail system in Bayonne to a new station at 8th Street.

The new station will become the system's southern terminus, replacing the current end of the line in Bayonne at 22nd Street. In September, the transit agency's board authorized design planning and environmental work for the preparation of the design-build package, which would be awarded next summer.

The new elevated station at Avenue C and 8th Street will serve the city's Bergen Point neighborhood. The extension will follow a Conrail right-of-way along the current alignment, then cross over several streets on a viaduct.

The station will be designed to evoke the Central Railroad of New Jersey station that had stood near the site. Construction would begin in 2008 and finish in 2009.

The system, whose first $993 million, 16-station phase was completed in 2000, was already expanded once with a $1.2 billion, seven-station expansion that finished earlier this year. The original system was built through urban parts of Jersey City, Hoboken and Bayonne, with closely-spaced stations near major transit hubs in Hudson County, while the second leg added fewer stations but extends the system for longer distances.

The board approved $2.1 million in September for preliminary design s on the track alignment and new station through amended contracts with three engineering firms that have ongoing assignments on the light rail system. Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas of Newark, N.J., took on a $1.4 million assignment for design work; Booz Allen Hamilton of McLean, Va., has a $400,000 contract for project management services; and BEM systems of Chatham, N.J., has a $340,000 assignment covering environmental aspects..

The transit agency's board also approved construction of a new park and ride intermodal facility in Wayne at the convergence of Interstate 80, Routes 23 and 46, and the Montclair-Boonton commuter rail line. The board awarded a $16.3 million construction contract to J.H. Reid General Contractor of South Plainfield to build bus and rail platforms and a 1,000-space parking lot.

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