Team Selected for Hudson Square Improvement Project

Hudson Street redesign, project conceptual rendering by AKRF and W Architecture & Landscape Architecture

NEW YORK CITY— New York City Economic Development Corporation, the New York City Department of Transportation, and the Hudson Square Business Improvement District have selected Prima Paving Corporation, Sam Schwartz Engineering, D.P.C. and Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects as a joint consultancy team to redesign Hudson Street between W. Houston and Canal streets.

The project is a major public-private, design-build investment to create a grand boulevard improving pedestrian, bicycle and vehicular traffic safety. It will extend sidewalks along Hudson Street up to five feet and add green space and other improvements along the seven-block corridor.