Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park Report

NY Post, 9/30/19 The latest Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park Construction Update (bottom), covering the two weeks beginning March 20, was circulated at 4:48 pm yesterday (lead time) by Empire State Development (ESD) after preparation by Greenland Forest City Partners (GFCP), which is dominated by Greenland USA. The big change, compared with the  previous update , is the belated acknowledgment that work on the crucial first block of the platform--teased as starting last May , with a repeat in every subsequent two-week Update suggesting potential work--has been put aside for now.  That platform, between Sixth and Carlton avenues and between Atlantic Avenue and Pacific Street, would support three towers over the MTA's Vanderbilt Yard. A second platform block, one block east, between Carlton and Vanderbilt avenues, would support three more towers and help deliver the lion's share of the project's much-touted open space. That suggests that Greenland USA, having lost its Atlantic Yar...

In December 2020--more than a year after a 9/30/19 article fed to the New York Post wrongly predicted that construction of the Vanderbilt Yard platform would start in 2020-- a representative of master developer Greenland Forest City Partners said  they had signed a contractor to build that platform, the first phase of which would support three towers. Scott Solish of Greenland USA, which owns nearly all of the joint venture, confirmed a contractor had been signed, one with "tremendous amounts of experience working with directly with the Long Island Rail Road," or LIRR.  But he did not disclose the name, and has not done so since then. However, in meeting notes  (also at bottom) from the bi-monthly 5/10/22 Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park Quality of Life meeting, that question has been answered: "The work will be conducted through a joint venture with Plaza Construction and China Construction." (The meeting notes get posted weeks--sometimes months--later by Empire State ...