Penn Station Redevelopment

The Penn Station Redevelopment is a federally led, roughly $7 billion transformation of the Western Hemisphere's busiest transit hub, serving more than 600,000 daily riders beneath Midtown Manhattan. Led by USDOT and Amtrak with master developer Penn Transformation Partners, a Halmar and Skanska team, the design by PAU (Practice for Architecture and Urbanism) with HOK and HNTB returns the station to its classical roots: a stone facade with rows of Roman-style columns, a light-filled single-level ADA-accessible concourse replacing the cramped underground warren, and a new grand train hall and entrance on Eighth Avenue finished in bronze and stone. Madison Square Garden remains in place while the Hulu Theater is demolished to open up the station below, and the scheme is scoped to enable at least limited through-running on the regional rail network for the first time. An approximately 90-foot-tall, 150,000-square-foot new exterior building will surround the Garden.