NEW YORK CITY — Plaza Construction and Schiavone Construction will be providing general contracting services for the new Fulton Street Transit Center. The $176 million project is part of a larger modernization of the subway system in Lower Manhattan.
The Fulton Street Transit Center will be a 180,000-square-foot facility built at the corner of Fulton Street and Broadway. The new building will provide a higher profile entrance to the subway station. The new project will feature a glass and steel oculus ceiling, which will serve as the building's main architectural feature. The building will open in 2014. In addition, the scope of the project will include the restoration of the historic Corbin Building, which is located at the corner of Broadway and John Street, as well as its integration into the new transit center.
The new transit center will also improve connections to the 1 Line Cortlandt Street Station, which is being constructed at the World Trade Center (WTC) site. The Lower Manhattan area already sees heavy traffic daily from office workers, and this will only increase in the future from tourists visiting projects under construction at the WTC site, including the 9/11 Memorial.
The project to improve Lower Manhattan's subway system has been several years in the making. The Cortlandt Street station sustained heavy damage from the 9/11 attacks. It reopened in 2002 but was closed again in 2005 to accommodate construction of the new Dey Street underground pedestrian concourse, which will connect new the Fulton Street Transit Center to the WTC site. Last year, the northbound side of the Cortlandt Street station reopened, and the southbound platform will open next September 11. The Fulton Street station itself was renovated in 2006 and 2007.
— Coleman Wood