Crains New York - July 22, 2013 - (Page 13)
INFRASTRUCTURE
REPORT
INSIDE THE LISTS
New York area’s largest
construction companies PAGE 14
Largest architecture firms PAGE 19
buck ennis
SHIP SHAPE:
Crews assemble the
Stack, a modular
residential building
in upper Manhattan.
(See Page 18 for a
rendering of what
the completed
building will look
like.)
NY’s modular moment arrives
Boomlet in projects
using prebuilt units
comes after many
years of false starts
BY MATT CHABAN
At the corner of Flatbush Avenue
and Dean Street at Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards, dozens of workers are
laying the foundation for a 32-story
apartment tower. They are excavating earth, bending rebar and pouring
concrete, just as countless others are
doing at construction sites around
town.
Meanwhile, two miles away, in a
factory the size of two football fields
at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, dozens
more are working on the same
building, stacking drywall, uncrating toilets, and gathering pipes and
spools of wire, all of which will be
used to complete a total of 930
trailer-size modules beginning next
month. Those will then be trucked
over to the Flatbush Avenue site,
where they will be stacked to form
363 apartments ranging in size from
BOX SET
363
NUMBER OF APARTMENTS in the
first, 32-story, all-modular
Atlantic Yards tower
930
NUMBER OF MODULES
constructed for the building
400-square-foot studios to 1,200square-foot two-bedrooms.
“There’s no reason people couldn’t
see this out their window very soon,
whether they’re in Brooklyn, downtown or even the Upper East Side,”
said Melissa Román Burch, executive
vice president at Forest City Ratner
and head of its Atlantic Yards project,
where the first of more than a dozen
modular towers is set to rise during
the next decade or so.
Work is finally getting underway
nearly three years after Forest City
Ratner Chairman Bruce Ratner was
transfixed by a YouTube video of a
15-story hotel being assembled in
China in just 46 hours. Now all eyes
are on Atlantic Yards.
“Mod” installation there is set to
begin this fall. It will be followed by
similar, though smaller, projects
ranging from a superstorm-proof
townhouse in Red Hook, Brooklyn,
to the Bloomberg administration’s
much-touted
micro-apartment
building in Manhattan’s Kips Bay.
All told, there are now more than 17
modular projects on file with the
Department of Buildings, with
more likely to come. The apparent
See MODULAR MOMENT on Page 18
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