The White Plains Common Council voted earlier this month to authorize a Canadian consulting firm to begin studying the potential of a multimodal transportation center at the city”™s train station.
Parsons Brinckerhoff, which is headquartered in Montreal, will do the preliminary planning, design and engineering for a White Plains Metro-North station-centered area called “functionally obsolete” in the request for proposals on the yearlong project in August.
The city received a $1 million grant from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority in December 2013 and will use it to fund Parsons Brinckerhoff to study a 0.5 mile radius around the train station and its potential for redevelopment.
A previous report by the Business Journal said plans to use the grant were held up by talks between the Development Authority and the city.
“With this authorization, we now begin our work on a revitalized, reimagined White Plains Multimodal Transportation Center,” White Plains Mayor Thomas M. Roach said. “I am excited to get started, and, with the assistance of the world class firm Parsons Brinckerhoff, I am confident we are going to come out of this process ready to move into design and construction.”
