Aragon Construction completes 13,000 s/f office space for The Forward

Aragon Construction, New York's premier general contracting and construction management firm, has just completed building a 13,000 s/f office space for the Forward Association, a nonprofit Jewish organization that publishes The Forward, America's most influential Jewish weekly newspaper. The office suite at 125 Maiden Lane, a 17-story office building in downtown Manhattan, encompasses much of the building's 8th floor. Aragon built a new executive office wing with private offices, open department areas, conference rooms, informal meeting areas, a reception area, and a broadcast space for video, podcast, and other digital production. The space also features a gallery/performance space. The construction firm paid special attention to the installation of a broad range of materials and surfaces specified by Amie Gross Architects. Materials include marble floors, custom wood doors, several different patterns and colors of carpets, specialty paints, and laser-cut wall panels. The installation also included "borrowed lighting" from internal windows that allow daylight to permeate the office core. "By working collaboratively," said Aragon president and founder Alex Getelman, "the teams were able to make this highly conceptual space into a beautiful and functional reality." Aragon also renovated a 5,000 s/f office space for a sublease tenant for the short term; it will enable the Forward Association to expand its operations in the future.