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New York City Construction Costs: insight into increasing financial demands
“The cost of new hospital construction is up 12
percent per year, while renovation and alteration
costs are escalating at roughly six percent per
year.” (NYBC, 2010).
New York City Building Congress, 2010
Currently, average hospital construction in New
York City runs at close to $600 per square foot,
Boston and Washington D.C. are estimaged at
$500-$555 per square foot, and Los Angeles and
San Francisco are at $380-$400 per square foot
(New York Building Congress, 2010).
Although this represents the
construction costs for New York
City schools, the same parallel and
linear relationship can be drawn for
Hospitals built in NYC, except with
even higher construction costs.
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