The public hybrid electric ferry — which would be the city’s first — is expected to begin servicing New Yorkers from Lower Manhattan to Governors Island by next summer. When the ferry starts running, powered by batteries and a diesel backup, it’s expected to transport nearly a million travelers who used the ferry.
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New designs reviewed by Crain’s provide a sneak peak at the project, known as The New York Climate Exchange, led by Stony Brook University to transform one of the island’s last swaths of developable land into a 400,000-square-foot incubator for the city’s green economy.
The climate campus will include two classroom and research buildings made of mass timber and other materials to reduce the carbon footprint of the project’s construction. It will also incorporate solar and geothermal systems to produce much of the center’s energy on-site. The buildings will be elevated by eight feet over a shoreline designed to offer the structures some protection from increasingly powerful storm surge and sea-level rise, Winters said.
The city’s 2021 rezoning of Governors Island allows for buildings up to 20 stories tall, as well as for retail, restaurants and offices. Aside from the new structures, the campus will include nearly five areas of open space, joining the existing 43-acre park and 92-acre historic district filled with dozens of old military buildings. The climate exchange project will also restore the existing Liggett Hall with student dormitories and faculty housing.
Project leaders plan to announce this week that they have decided on Skanska USA as the construction manager, after receiving eight contractor proposals. Design and engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is behind the project’s early design.
The design is expected to be finished by early 2026, Winters said, and officials expect to begin construction by the fall of that year, with an opening date of fall 2029.
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