By Sarah Trefethen and Danielle Furfaro

Contractors will begin tearing down parts of the main La Guardia airport terminal next week in the first physical move toward the $4 billion rebuild.

The plan is to tear down a few gates at a time until the whole main Terminal B is rebuilt.

by DCN News Services

ARLINGTON, VA.—Construction employment rose between April 2015 and April 2016 in two-thirds of the metropolitan areas in the U.S., a report issued June 1 by the Associated General Contractors of America indicates.

Spending on most types of structures increased for the year despite a drop in the latest month,

By Kim Slowey

Dive Brief:

• A New York City Building Congress analysis of 2015 city construction data found that $39 billion of construction activity generated an additional $22 billion in spending and output, resulting in $61 billion of total economic benefit for the city and representing a 7% increase from 2014’s $57 billion.

Vice president Joe Biden returned to La Guardia Airport — which he once said reminded him of a “third-world country” — on Tuesday to help break ground on the new main terminal.

“The greatest city in the world needs and deserves the greatest infrastructure,” said Biden.

Grants Will Rehabilitate 3 Railroad Bridges and More Than 52 Miles ofRail Track and Facilities

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced $16.3 million to fund rail and port improvement projects across New York State. These grants, from the Governor’s Passenger and Freight Rail Assistance Program,

And then there were three: Skanska, Lend Lease and Gilbane to compete for Javits redevelopment

The companies were finalists in competitions for RFPs

By Kathryn Brenzel

State officials have selected the three construction teams that can compete for a chance to redevelop the Jacob K.

Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz Contact Reporter Chicago Tribune

Cranes have sprouted in Chicago as surely as tulips, but a busy construction season is coming with concerns that there aren’t enough skilled workers to do all the building.

by Jeff Shaw in New York, Northeast, Office, Top Stories

NEW YORK CITY — SL Green Realty Corp. has chosen AECOM’s Tishman Construction unit to manage the construction of One Vanderbilt,

Matt Coyne and Mark Lungariello, mlungariel@lohud.com 7:15 p.m. EDT July 12, 2016

Legislator Shimsky: “We’re talking about the largest piece of county-owned property. We’re talking about a 99-year lease”

WHITE PLAINS — Westchester County is going to put a little more time into its review of plans for a $1.2 billion biotech center in Valhalla,

The developer, which has partnered with investment firm Qatari Diar, received a construction loan from Bank of the Ozarks. WeWork will anchor the development

By Daniel Geiger

A pair of new office towers will rise in Long Island City.

Memorial Bridge, ports among projects slated to get transportation grants

By Melanie Zanona

The Department of Transportation (DOT) has selected over a dozen transportation projects to receive funding from a newly created competitive grant program, quickly drawing the praise of lawmakers who represent districts or states that will benefit from the fresh injection of infrastructure cash.

Under the proposal, the Queens venue, Resorts World Casino, would get a hotel, spa and resort and convention center

By Amanda Fung

The Resorts World Casino in Queens may get bigger.

The owner of Resorts World Casino,

NEW YORK | By Herbert Lash and Edward Krudy

Global stock markets lost about $2 trillion in value on Friday after Britain voted to leave the European Union, while sterling suffered a record one-day plunge to a 31-year low and money poured into safe-haven gold and government bonds.

Source: Dodge Data & Analytics

At a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $636.7 billion, new construction starts in May increased 5% from April, according to Dodge Data & Analytics. Much of the growth came from the nonbuilding construction sector (public works and electric utilities),

Gov. Cuomo’s budget would spend billions on the state’s transportation infrastructure.
THE STAKES

Coupling it with a giveback to favor Thruway users is an unnecessary political ploy.As so many municipalities and school districts struggle, hemmed in by the property tax cap and only modest increases in state aid,

By David K. Li

Con Edison, KeySpan and Brooklyn Union Gas are balking at state and MTA pressure to pony up millions of dollars for work on the Second Avenue Subway.

The utility companies are already asking for rate hikes they believe are crucial to maintain an aging infrastructure — and they have no interest in shouldering the $375 million the MTA says is needed to move underground lines as it continues to build the long-awaited subway,

Michelle Jamrisko @mljamrisko

February 17, 2016 — 8:30 AM EST Updated on February 17, 2016 — 8:56 AM EST

New-home construction in the U.S. unexpectedly cooled in January, indicating there is a limit to how much gains in residential real estate will boost growth at the start of 2016.

By MATT A.V. CHABAN

Scrutiny is about to begin of a proposal for the tallest tower in Brooklyn, one that would be impossible to ignore.

Two developers have submitted plans in recent weeks for a 1,066-foot building in Downtown Brooklyn,

Bart Jansen, USA TODAY12:49 p.m. EST February 18, 2016

WASHINGTON – Nearly 10% of the country’s bridges – 58,495 out of 609,539 – were considered structurally deficient last year and needed repairs,

Road funds off-balance

By JOE LEATHERSICH

WARSAW — The Department of Transportation knows the New York City subway is important — but that doesn’t stop the roads in upstate New York from crumbling.

The Wyoming County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a resolution passed calling on Governor Andrew Cuomo restore parity between the upstate and downstate budget.