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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has named five finalists to manage construction of the Fulton Street Transit Center. The teams will submit their plans for the $750 million project to the MTA on Dec. 2.
Heralded as a gateway to lower Manhattan, the new project will connect six downtown subway stations and link them to the larger PATH terminal.
The Fulton Street Transit Center will also make it easier to navigate through the web of downtown subway lines.
"It would clearly create a boost for lower Manhattan," says Lee Sander, who runs New York University's Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management and who still gets lost in the current Fulton Street subway station. "The absence of a modern, attractive terminal such as Grand Central was a major inhibitor to lower Manhattan's development."
The five finalists for the project range from well-established New York players that have long toiled at Ground Zero to firms with less experience in New York construction management.
The finalists include three teams: Turner Construction Co. and DMJM+Harris, Tishman Construction Group and CTE Engineers Inc., and Bovis Lend Lease and Parsons Brinckerhoff.
The remaining finalists, Jacobs Civil Consultants and Washington Group International, are submitting plans to complete the...