Fulton Street Transit Center
The Fulton Center is a $1.4 billion project under construction by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), a public agency of the state of New York. The plan includes station rehabilitations, new underground passageways, and an above-ground station entrance building at the intersection of Fulton Street and Broadway in New York City, above several existing stations.
The project is intended to improve access to and connections between 11 MTA subway services stopping at the Fulton Street, the Chambers Street – World Trade Center / Park Place and the Cortlandt Street stations, with connections to the PATH service at the World Trade Center station in Lower Manhattan. Funding for the construction project, which began in 2005, dried up for several years, with no final approved plan and no schedule for completion. Plans for the transit center, however, have been rejuvenated by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, and the project is set for completion in June 2014.
Originally called the Fulton Street Transit Center, the complex has been renamed the Fulton Center since May 2012. This has come in conjunction with an increased focus on retail, especially in the upper floors of the flagship building and the ground floor of the Corbin Building, which is being renovated as part of the project. A company managing the retail space is expected to be announced by the MTA.
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