Tuesday, September 15, 2026
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New York Construction & Development Intelligence

CONSTRUCTEL NYC TRACKS NYC DEPARTMENT OF BUILDINGS FILINGS, PERMITS & SKYSCRAPER PROJECTS CITYWIDECONSTRUCTEL NYC TRACKS NYC DEPARTMENT OF BUILDINGS FILINGS, PERMITS & SKYSCRAPER PROJECTS CITYWIDE
Live from DOB Job Application Filings· fetched 1:12 PM

Largest Active Projects, By Filed Cost

The 25 highest filed-cost New Building or Major Alteration filings with DOB activity in the last 3 years — DOB's own records, not a curated "biggest projects" list.

Why This Rarely Shows $1B+ Filings

DOB permit fees scale with a filing's declared "initial cost," so filers — including on genuine multi-billion-dollar towers — routinely file a fraction of true project cost; checked live against every matching filing (2026-08-10), the single highest DOB-filed cost citywide was $160M, nowhere near $1B on any one filing. That's a real, well-documented practice, not a data error — see the applicant's filed figure for what it is (a fee basis, not a project budget) rather than expecting NYC's actual billion-dollar-class construction to show up here. For projects genuinely reported at that scale — the Port Authority's Midtown Bus Terminal replacement, for instance — see Landmark Infrastructure Projects, hand-tracked with real budgets and named contractors, or News for day-to-day coverage. Figures below are the applicant's own filed estimate, not an audited or as-built total (see Data & Sources).

None of the filings above happen to cross $1B on DOB's own filed-cost field right now — expected, per the note above, not a bug.