New York state and city officials are planning to build a public health and life sciences campus in New York City at an expected cost of $1.6 billion. A master plan for the Science Park and Research Campus Kips Bay, developed with design firm Skidmore Owings & Merrill, is anticipated in nine to 12 months.
SPARC Kips Bay, as it is known, would then go through the city’s uniform land use review process before requests for proposals are issued. It will likely be a few years before the project, which could create 8,000 construction jobs, goes out to bid, says a spokesperson for New York City Economic Development Corp. says.