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BQE Rebuild Pushed Back to a 2030 Start
Brooklyn Heights Promenade, Brooklyn, New York, USA
DELAYED70% CONFIDENCEin 4.3 yearsStreetsblog's[3] report of 24 August 2026 on the new mayoral plan - 'Construction will start in 2030, wrap up in 2040', a 10-year $4 billion rebuild - is newer than the NYC[2] DOT project page's 2029 start, which is where the pin's earlier date came from. No day is given, so it is dated to the last day of 2030.New York's plan to rebuild the crumbling triple-cantilever section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway now targets a 2030 construction start after yet another mayoral reset.0.58Judge Rules Sable Offshore Needed Coastal Permits for Pipeline Repairs
Santa Barbara County Courthouse, 1100, Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, California, 93121, United StatesSable Offshore…
CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE343 days agoStated as a completed event, per independent.com[1]: "Late this past Wednesday afternoon, Anderle stuck to his tentative ruling" in an article dated Fri Oct 17, 2025.Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Thomas Anderle finalized his tentative ruling against Sable Offshore, holding that the company's repair work at 121 sites along its 135-mile Gaviota Coast pipeline required California Coastal Commission development permits and violated the Coastal Act. The ruling leaves intact the injunction halting further repairs and keeps the Commission's $18 million fine a live issue.$18M0.57Hudson Yards
CONFIRMED76% CONFIDENCE1.7 years agoHappened as dated, per the pin description: "…etween Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen. Once completed, the site will be home to more than 17 million squ…"The West Side of New York City is in the midst of being transformed. Construction is well underway on Hudson Yards — the largest private real estate development in the history of the United States and the source of a new neighborhood situated between Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen. Once completed, the site will be home to more than 17 million square feet of newly created space, including a public school and a much-anticipated cultural facility. Here’s an update on New York City’s largest project since Rockefeller Center.$20B0.56San Francisco's Millennium Tower Fix Declared a Success
301 Mission Street, San Francisco, California, USA
CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE3.3 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: the pile-driving and load-shifting project "was finished earlier this month," in an article published June 21, 2023.Engineers completed a $100M underpinning project meant to arrest the sinking and tilt of San Francisco's Millennium Tower.$100M0.55Earls Court Redevelopment Starts on Site
ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEin 99 daysThe developer's announcement says only that "early construction work is expected to begin in 2026", a year rather than a date.[1]The 44-acre former exhibition site won consent from Hammersmith & Fulham on 26 November 2025 and Kensington & Chelsea on 16 December 2025, a decade after the exhibition halls came down. Phase one of the GBP 10bn masterplan covers the first 1,300 homes, offices, a cultural venue and a 4.5-acre park, with the whole site due to be finished by 2043.0.55Construction Begins on New York's Hudson River Rail Tunnel
North River Tunnel, Weehawken, New Jersey
CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE2.9 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "construction finally began Nov. 3 on the Hudson River Tunnel portion of the Gateway Program[2]".Crews broke ground on the Hudson Tunnel Project, a new rail tunnel meant to relieve the century-old, storm-damaged North River Tunnel beneath the Hudson River.0.55Baltimore Jury Orders J&J to Pay $1.56 Billion Over Baby Powder Cancer
CONFIRMED81% CONFIDENCE275 days agoThe Baltimore Banner's report of Tuesday 23 December 2025 says "The jury returned the verdict in favor of Cherie Craft ... on Monday in Baltimore Circuit Court", i.e. Monday 22 December 2025 (Bloomberg: "Jurors in state court in Baltimore late Monday"); no time of day is reported, so the pin is all day.[1]A Baltimore City jury awarded Cherie Craft $59.84 million in compensatory and $1.5 billion in punitive damages, finding J&J's talc baby powder exposed her to the asbestos behind her peritoneal mesothelioma - the largest talc verdict for a single plaintiff. J&J said it would appeal.$1.6B0.55Chicago's Century and Consumers Buildings Saved From Demolition
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE2.1 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: the GSA released its final environmental review, "ultimately choosing to reuse the vacant buildings rather than demolish them," reported August 2, 2024.The US General Services Administration reversed course on a $52M congressional earmark to demolish two historic Chicago Loop skyscrapers, opting to reuse them instead after a sustained preservation campaign.0.55The One Placed Into Receivership in Toronto
Yonge and Bloor, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCE2.9 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: the tower "was taken over by a court-appointed receiver" in "October 2023" after "financiers defaulted on more than $1.2 billion in loans."The One, an 85-storey tower at Yonge and Bloor meant to be Canada's first supertall skyscraper, was placed into receivership after its financiers defaulted on more than $1.2BN in loans.C$1.2B0.54Transforming London’s Broadgate: 100 Liverpool Street
CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCE6.1 years agoMultiple independent sources (Hopkins[2] Architects’ own project page and New London Architecture) give the completion as September 2020, after this 2019 video was filmed mid-construction. Happened as dated, per the source[1]: "an outstanding new benchmark for low-carbon commercial office redevelopment".British Land completed a stripped-back rebuild of an aging 1980s Broadgate office block into 100 Liverpool Street, a low-carbon commercial tower beside Liverpool Street station.0.54GFP Real Estate Wins the Flatiron Building's Second Auction
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE3.3 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "Jeffrey Gural won Tuesday's auction outside 60 Centre Street in Lower Manhattan with a bid for $161 million."After the top bidder in the Flatiron Building's court-ordered auction failed to pay, a second sale handed New York's cake-slice tower to majority owner GFP Real Estate for $161.5 million.$161.5M0.54American Copper Buildings Complete on Manhattan's East River
ESTIMATED63% CONFIDENCE7.7 years agoDated to the end of 2018 because the sources give only a period: the east tower opened "late 2018", completing the pair (the west tower opened in April 2017). The skybridge itself was installed from January 2016.[1]Developer JDS Development Group and architects SHoP completed the American Copper Buildings on Manhattan's East River in 2018, two leaning towers joined by a three-storey glass skybridge.0.54
