Hello Everyone,
It’s been a while since I last posted. On Tuesday the 6th, PABT will be giving an update on the progress and unveiling the design for the new bus terminal. The project should start in 2025 or could even start late this year. This is one of the biggest complex projects I’ve ever been a part of, especially being in the heart of NYC. But hey if you can build in New York City then you can build it anywhere. Here’s a sneak peek below. Glad to be back on the forum.
Some initial images. as reported by the NYtimes
Why in the world did they include a statement from Bob Menendez in their press release?
Can someone drop the images here for us non-NYT subscribers?
For most developments, a lack of residential would be disappointing but since the terminal will be primarily serving inbound commuters, attaching office towers seems like good synergy.
Don’t we have an example of another “Port Authority” bus terminal in Manhattan that has a successful integration of apartments to the rear of the bus area?
Bridge Apartments - Wikipedia.
Maybe they are looking for some gold bars 
Those apartments get a lot of fumes from the traffic.
You can’t pay me enough to live on top of a bus terminal, don’t know how some people can do it.
Source: Foster + Partners: Designs for Midtown Bus Terminal in Manhattan revealed
The outer facade is giving me Old Greyhound Bus Terminal outside the original Penn Station.
Source: Wiki
Also heavy Streamline Moderne vibes.
I think they took some inspiration from the McGraw Hill building next door. 
The interior will have a lot more in common with the old Penn Station than with the old Greyhound terminal next to Penn Station
Hell yeah. What’s the timeline/process for selecting developers for the towers? I’m looking forward to another Transbay-style design competition.
Edit: For those unfamiliar with the SF Transbay project, here were a couple of the proposals:
Skidmore Owings & Merrill/Rockefeller Development Corp
Richard Rogers/Forest City/MacFarlane
And the eventual winner from Pelli Clark Pelli/Hines
The towers are apart of Phase 3 and aren’t slated to begin any construction until 2040 the last I saw. Projects this big (in reference to just the tower/commercial portions) take a while to materialize so the time frame makes sense from the point of inception to beginning of physical construction. The same with One Vanderbilt.
The main terminal reconstruction is apart of Phase 2 and is proposed from beginning to completion to last from 2028-2032, ideally, it would make more sense for the towers to be built at the same time as that because it will cause construction interruptions to operations at the new terminal once completed, let alone it will cause restrictions and limitations to the base makeup of the layout of the towers within their footprints.
Regardless, it would be nice for these to be a pair/twins (including the 3rd proposed tower), like 10/30 HYs, but please no more F+P…
