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Re: costing out the original Penn Station
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Dave Follett <[log in to unmask]>
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The listserv where the buildings do the talking <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:49:25 -0500
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Do you also need to include the cost of dismantling the existing
structure and rerouting all Subway, LIRR, Amtrak, and NJ Transit
traffic?  Plus keep in mind that there is no reason to believe that
material costs for limestone mirror inflation, or labor, or real
estate, or shipping... or pretty much any of it.

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Martin Tangora <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> In the past I have used this construction cost index,
> which exists for 20 cities including NYC,
> but now it seems to require a password.
>
> http://enr.construction.com/economics/
>
>
> On 2/14/2013 1:21 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
>
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> In a message dated 2/14/2013 2:08:29 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> Now you can tell me why this procedure is NFG.
>
>
> You are brilliant:  from wiki:  Meanwhile, ground was broken for
> Pennsylvania Station on May 1, 1904. By the time of its completion and the
> inauguration of regular through train service on Sunday, November 27, 1910,
> the total project cost to the Pennsylvania Railroad for the station and
> associated tunnels was $114 million (approximately $2.7 billion in 2011
> dollars), according to an Interstate Commerce Commission"
>
>
> The Farley Penn Station:
>
> It is expected to cost up to $1.5 billion, the source of which has not yet
> been identified.[50]
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