http://www.elevatorworld.com/industry-news/october-21/
TEI CONTRACTS AROUND NYC
TEI Group has won several contracts to equip new and renovated NYC buildings with vertical transportation. It will construct and install nine elevators at the under-construction 54-story residential tower 43-22 Queens Street in Long Island City. Additionally, the firm will be modernizing 11 elevators and maintaining 12 at the historic 5 Penn Plaza. Smaller contracts for TEI Group are the construction and installation of six elevators at the new mixed-use Essex Crossing development complex in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, expected to begin construction in phases soon and be completed by 2024; four elevators at the redevelopment of Brooklyn Navy Yard's BLDG 77; and one custom hydraulic elevator at 640 5th Avenue near Rockefeller Center in the center of Midtown Manhattan.
30 YEARS IN U.S. ELEVATOR MARKET FOR MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC
The elevator and escalator division of Mitsubishi Electric US, Inc., headquartered in Cypress, California, is celebrating 30 years in the U.S. market. Division Senior Vice President and Deputy General Manager Erik Zommers attributed the longevity to customer support and trust. The company reflected on milestones such as installing the first stacked, spiral escalator in the U.S. in Westfield San Francisco Centre and receiving one of ELEVATOR WORLD Project of the Year awards in 2012 for the vertical-transportation system in the expanded Blue Cross Blue Shield Tower in Chicago.
90-STORY TOWER A “BOLD PROPOSAL” FOR MELBOURNE
Crown and Schiavello are proposing a 90-story, 317-m-tall hotel/residence, Queensbridge Hotel Tower, in downtown Melbourne, Australia, that political leaders describe as a “bold proposal,” the Herald Sun reports. British firm Wilkinson Eyre beat won a design competition for the project, which consists of the main tower flanked by two others. Proponents point to job and revenue creation, and the fact it would provide nearly 400 much-needed hotel rooms. Opponents feel it would mar the character of downtown Melbourne, particularly with a proposed airwalk connecting the tower to an existing Crown property. If it is approved, the project is scheduled for completion by 2020.
