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Tickets On Sale for Summit One Vanderbilt Observatory Experience
Tickets are now on sale for SUMMIT One Vanderbilt (ELENET 891), a 65,000-ft2 entertainment center in NYC, SL Green Realty Corp. announced in a press release on September 14. The building includes a...
TKE Canada Doubles VT Service Footprint for Retailer
TK Elevator (TKE) Canada has expanded its service footprint on vertical-transportation (VT) systems at supermarket Loblaws’ locations in Canada, TKE has announced. Lowblas, headquartered in Brampton, Ontario, has more than 2,400 stores...
Work on Liverpool Apartment Building is Underway
Work on the 22-story Pall Mall Press apartments build-to-rent building developed by Graham is underway in Liverpool, Construction Review Online reports. Designed by Falconer Chester Hall, the 280,000-ft2 scheme will deliver 336 apartments....
Elevator Replacement to Close NYC Clark Street Station
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) plans to close the 2 and 3 lines’ Clark Street station in Brooklyn Heights in NYC from November 2 until spring 2022 in order to...
Organizers Plan BuildingsNY 2021 Show for October
BuildingsNY is planning its 2021 trade show for October 20-21 at Pier 36, 299 South Street in NYC, the organization has announced. For 35 years the BuildingsNY show has been...
Phase Three of Provost Square Set to Rise This Fall
The third component of a prominent multi-tower development will soon start to rise in the Powerhouse Arts District in Jersey City, New Jersey, after months of delay due to COVID-19, Jersey...
Albuquerque Looks to Axe Elevator Inspection Program
Tim Keller, mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico, sent legislation to the City Council that would axe the city’s US$167,000 elevator maintenance program, Albuquerque Journal reports. A city planning department spokesman observes that...
Experts: COVID-19, Climate Change to Impact Tower Design
Just as the September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center in NYC prompted significant changes in skyscraper design, the COVID-19 pandemic of the past couple of years and...
Yacht Design Includes “Sky Elevator”
U.S.-based Norwegian designer Kurt Strand has revealed a concept for a 161-m Viking-inspired sailing superyacht named Norway with a “sky elevator” hidden inside the middle mast and capable of whisking...
9/11 Prompted Design of OEO Elevators in Charlotte
The Bank of America Tower at Legacy Union in Charlotte, North Carolina, features elevators that emerged within the 20 years since the 9/11 attacks: re-engineered lifts that help evacuate people...
