A joint venture between US contractors Tutor Perini and O&G has won a $3.8bn deal to build a prison in Manhattan for New York City’s Department of Design and Construction (DDC).
The facility will be able to contain 1,040 inmates. It will have indoor and outdoor recreation areas, staff offices and 125 underground parking spaces. It will also have 1,858 sq m of community and commercial space on the ground floor.
O&G has a 25% stake in the contract, with Missouri-based architect HOK as design partner. Tutor Perini is the managing partner.
Construction is due to take a total of seven years and three months. It will be located on the site of the former Manhattan Detention Complex in Chinatown, which became infamous as “the Tombs”.
The prison is one of four planned for New York. The others are being built in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens, and will replace the Rikers Island facility for people being held on remand.
In 2023, Tutor Perini won a $3bn design-and-build contract for a prison in Brooklyn and also a $49m project to improve structural deficiencies at Alcatraz.
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