The architecture firm behind the largest new project started this year was Ohio-based Ford & Associates.
The firm was hired by Matrix Development Group, which plans to build a 2.3- million-square-foot commercial manufacturing building at 546 Gulf Avenue in Staten Island. Part of the building will be home to Amazon’s first distribution center in New York.
The Seattle-based behemoth announced in June that it planned to take 975,000 square feet. The project is the second phase of the New Jersey-based developer’s large commercial complex, which will eventually span 3.5 million square feet. The complex’s other two buildings — at 566 and 586 Gulf Avenue — were among the 10 largest project’s initiated in 2016.
By Kathryn Brenzel