The George Washington Bridge Bus Station, which is located on both sides of Broadway in the Washington Heights community, opened on January 17, 1963. It was designed by Dr. Pier Luigi Nervi, the noted Italian engineer-architect of the 1960 Olympic Stadium in Rome and other world-renowned structures.
The GWBBS Redevelopment is a $183.2 million public-private partnership between the Port Authority and a private developer, the GWBBS Development Venture (DV), which resulted from an agency-wide evaluation of PA properties that could provide retail revenue. It provides for both transportation improvements and destination retail in the resurging neighborhood. The architectural design team was an innovative collaboration between Port Authority Staff, for the bus facility, and STV, as retail architect and program architect/ architect-of record.