The recently completed $15.4 million Hoover-Mason
Trestle, a one-third mile long elevated walkway that links South Side Bethlehem
properties such as the Sands Casino Resort-Bethlehem and SteelStacks, has been
honored by Engineering News Record’s enr.com
The project, which was built on the original heavy-duty
railway that was designed more than a century ago to haul iron ore across
Bethlehem Steel Property, was awarded ENR MidAtlantic’s Best Projects:
Landscape/Hardscape/Urban Development.
The Bethlehem Redevelopment Authority, Boyle Construction
Management and the entire project team shared the honor. Wallace Roberts Todd
was the architect on the project. Simpson Gumpertz & Heger and Maser
Consulting also assisted with the project.
The project marked the latest in a series of important
revitalization efforts for the South Side and is on the largest brownfield site
in the U.S.
The Trestle is considered part museum, part circulation
walk, and part attraction. It features dramatic lighting, native plantings and
a Wi-Fi-guided historical walking tour, partly in the shadow of the former
Bethlehem Steel blast furnaces.
The ENR Regional Best Projects Awards are a series of
special events to celebrate and honor the building teams that created the best
projects of 2015 nationwide. Honorees are recognized at a banquet in Baltimore
in November.
Source: LVB
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