TWA Hotel donates sand
to shore up Jamaica Bay
BY BILL PARRY
The development company behind
the TWA Hotel at JFK International
Airport has donated 74,000 cubic feet of
clean sand excavated from the building
site to the National Park Service for the
Spring Creek South Storm Resilience
and Ecosystem Restoration Project.
Valued at nearly $5 million, the sand
will stabilize Spring Creek Park — a
wildlife refuge in the Gateway National
Recreation Area along the Jamaica Bay
shoreline — to reduce the risk of storm
damage and flooding in the Howard
Beach, which was devastated during
Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
“Queens is the home of the TWA
Hotel and we are committed to keeping
it safe and beautiful,” MCR and MORSE
Development CEO Tyler Morse said. “We
are proud that our building can help
rebuild the Jamaica Bay shoreline.”
The sand was excavated by Turner
Construction Company and Urban
Foundation Engineering to build
the hotel’s 50,000-square-foot events
center. Ruttura & Sons transported
the sand to Spring Creek Park where
it will be used to create a protective
berm and restore more than 225 acres
of wetland and coastal forest, home to
great blue herons, egrets, red-winged
blackbirds, pheasants, mallards, deer,
raccoons and muskrats.
“Spring Creek Park is the ideal
destination for those who love nature,
but it also has the potential to be the
borough’s first line of defense against
storms that threaten to flood surrounding
communities,” Queens Borough
President Melinda Katz said. “What
a wonderful example of a community
neighbor working with government to
make smart reuse of resources. MCR
and Morse Development’s generous
donation of $5 million worth of sand will
both save taxpayers money and go a long
way toward making the TWA Hotel’s
home borough more resilient in the face
of future storms.”
The TWA Hotel is opening in the
spring with 512 ultra-quiet rooms, six
restaurants, eight bars, high-end retail
outlets, event space with a 15,000-squarefoot
ballroom, a rooftop pool and
observation deck, a 10,000-squarefoot
fitness center and a Lockheed
Constellation L-1649A transformed into
a cocktail lounge.
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