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Valley Stream Parking Garage
New Construction
Location: Valley Stream, NY
Project Specifications:
- Total Square Footage: 360,000
Aurora Contractors was the General Contractor for the 360,000 square foot, 4-level
above-grade parking garage at the Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream, NY. The parking
garage adjoins an existing active mall, and is located less than 10 feet away from
the fire lane of the Macy’s department store, as well as the underground delivery
tunnel that accesses the loading docks.
With such a close proximity to the mall, and large volume of pedestrian and car
traffic nearby, Aurora had to implement several safety plans and safeguards to keep
the site safe. To that end, Aurora held additional weekly meetings with mall security,
mall management, as well as the Town of Hempstead Building Department and the Fire
Marshal, to ensure construction was safe as well as on schedule. The site is located
in a high water table zone, and had to be constantly dewatered during construction,
due to the intensive excavation required to install the expansive footing and foundations;
a leeching field was also installed to control the water. The other challenge for
this project was building in close proximity of the active mall and parking lots.
It was imperative that Aurora’s work did not interfere with the operations of the
existing mall. The parking garage is surrounded on all sides by active public areas
that had to remain accessible to the public at all times. Aurora had to coordinate
construction of the exterior of the garage and all deliveries during off hours to
accomplish this.