Hoboken Ferry Terminal Re-opens After 45 Years
Posted December 7, 2011
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HOBOKEN, N.J. - Culminating nine years of work and a $120 million investment, the New Jersey Transit has reinstated ferry service at the Hoboken Ferry Terminal after a 45-year lapse.
The restoration of ferry service is a milestone for the redevelopment and rehabilitation of the Hoboken Terminal and Yard complex, the largest multi-modal terminal in the New York metro. The planning and execution of the entire project has been more than 15 years in the making.
The Hoboken Terminal, which fell into disrepair in the 1960s, was added to the New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places in 1973 in an effort to save property, once the crown jewel of the New Jersey skyline.
STV has been the project manager for the entire three-phased project, providing mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and industrial engineering design services. Phase one wrapped up in 2005 and phase two was completed in 2008, the restoration of ferry service as the goal for phase three. The preservation work included re-cladding the structures with its original ornate copper cladding.
The two-story, 29,000-square-foot ferry terminal opened in 1907, with Louis Comfort Tiffany stained glass in the main waiting room. The Beaux Arts structure t was designed by architect Kenneth M. Murchison.
In addition to STV, the project team included Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners; Hatch Mott MacDonald, civil engineering; Gilsanz Murray Steficek LLP, superstructure structural engineering; Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers, foundations engineering; Leni Schwendinger Light Projects Ltd., lighting design; McLaren Engineering Group, marine engineering; 212 Associates, signage; Matthew Nielsen, landscaping; FTL Design Engineering Studio, canopies; Lynn Drobbin Associates, historical documentation; Hall Construction Co., general contractor; Schtiller & Plevy, restoration of historic copper facades; and Tishman Construction, construction management.
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