LIC to get $61M green school

Skanska USA has been awarded a $61 million contract by the New York City School Construction Authority to build a new, highly sustainable middle school and high school at South Hunter’s Point in Long Island City, the company announced today. Plans for the five-story school building call for 26 classrooms and eight special-education classrooms, in addition to science rooms, an art studio, a music suite, a regulation-size gym with an auxiliary gym and a library. The school, which will accommodate more than 1,000 students, will be designed to meet silver LEED certification. The development plans for Hunter’s Point South, which was originally a 30-acre industrial waterfront, include a proposed mixed-use, residential building with up to 5,000 housing units, 60 percent of which will be affordable to middle-income families. The new units are a part of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s $7.5 billion New Housing Marketplace Plan.

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