Who's building the platform? China Construction America, part of huge, state-owned international company, and its sibling Plaza Construction
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 ...