Fulton Center
200 Broadway | also 146 Fulton Street | Financial District | built 1910
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- 2005
The MTA shrinks the transit center's dome and drops a planned subway link to save money
The MTA announced cuts to the Fulton Street Transit Center design it had unveiled in May 2004. The conical steel-and-glass dome, meant to carry daylight to the platforms below, was made shorter and less prominent. A planned connection joining the Cortlandt Street subway stop to the World Trade Center terminal was scrapped, and the Dey Street concourse was narrowed. The projected cost, which had grown from $750 million to $825 million, came down to $785 million.
Source: Internet Archive
- 2006
The MTA says the Fulton transit center is $40 million to $50 million over budget
On May 22, 2006, the MTA's head of capital construction, Mysore Nagaraja, told an authority committee that the project had overshot its original $799 million budget by $40 million to $50 million. Opening had already slipped from December 2008 to June 2009. He blamed rising real estate values, which raised what the authority paid for private property at the site, and stricter federal standards for removing asbestos.
Source: Internet Archive
- 2006
148 small businesses face a deadline to leave the block taken for the transit center
June 1, 2006 was the deadline for 148 small businesses on Broadway between Fulton and John Streets to leave buildings the MTA had taken by eminent domain on the site of today's Fulton Center. Representative Jerrold Nadler and borough president Scott Stringer asked for a three-month delay, and a federal review found the authority had not clearly shown adequate relocation help. The MTA wanted the block empty by the end of August so demolition could start in September.
Source: Internet Archive
- 2008
The MTA downsizes the Fulton main building to save money, and a columnist mocks the project
In January 2008 the MTA said cost overruns on its big capital projects meant the Fulton main building had to shrink. The planned 114-foot structure with a large dome gave way to a plain stainless-steel building with a smaller dome. By March the authority said it would spend $295 million on a structure not yet defined. New York Post columnist Steve Cuozzo mocked the project as the Folly on Fulton Street, a play on the jibe about Robert Fulton's steamboat.
“New York Post columnist Steve Cuozzo called the project "The Folly on Fulton Street", a word play on "Fulton's Folly…”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2009
Federal stimulus money revives the main building and lifts the cost to $1.4 billion
The Fulton main building came close to cancellation in 2009 as costs rose. In January the MTA received $497 million in additional federal stimulus money, which restored the building to the plan and pushed the project's total price to $1.4 billion. The MTA said final details of the above-ground building were still being worked out.
“In January 2009, the MTA received $497 million in additional stimulus money, bringing the total cost of the Fulton Street Transit Center to $1.4 billion.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2014
Fulton Center opens seven years behind schedule
The $1.4 billion transit and retail complex, nearly twice its original $750 million budget, officially opens on November 10, 2014, alongside the adjacent Dey Street Passageway. First proposed in 2002 to rehabilitate the tangled Fulton Street station complex after September 11 damaged Lower Manhattan's transit infrastructure, the project is revived only after 2009 federal stimulus funding rescues it from cancellation.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2014
The Sky Reflector-Net is installed beneath the oculus
Commissioned through the MTA's Arts & Design program, the Sky Reflector-Net is installed in 2014 at the center of the Fulton Building's oculus. Its 952 slanted mirrors and a skylight with 88 glass blades send daylight as far as four stories underground. Before it, the last deliberate skylight in the subway system was at the original City Hall station, which closed in 1945.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2016
Fulton Center earns LEED Silver certification
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority receives LEED Silver certification for Fulton Center in March 2016, credited to its renewable-energy sources and energy-saving features. No other subway station in New York City had earned a LEED rating before it.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2024
Westfield tries to end its Fulton Center lease early, and the MTA sues
Westfield signed a 20-year lease to run the shops in December 2013, shortly before the complex opened. In February 2024 news reports said it was trying to end the lease ten years early, citing rising crime. The MTA responded by filing a federal lawsuit to keep Westfield to its agreement.
“In February 2024, media sources reported that Westfield was trying to terminate its lease at the Fulton Center ten years early.”
Source: Wikipedia
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