Logan Kenney.
Logan Kenney, 30
Senior Project Manager at United Structural Works
Logan Kenney didn’t plan to go into construction. The Palm Beach native majored in business management and minored in computer programming at the University of Florida. But right after graduating in 2012, he landed a job at AT&T, working with crews installing fiber optic cables in southern Florida. He started out training installers, and then moved to working in the field to diagnose problems that would emerge during the installations deep beneath the streets.
After a few years, he moved back to Palm Beach and worked with a contractor that specialized in high-end residential construction. Then, in 2018, with three and a half years of residential contractor experience under his belt, Kenney decided to move to New York City and look for a construction job.
“I had never been to New York, and I came up to visit,” he explained. “And, as soon as I did, it was kind of game over for me. I fell in love with the city, ended up going back to Florida, getting everything in order, and moving up here.”
He did a short stint with a steel fabricator, followed in 2019 by a year at a union carpentry shop. He oversaw work on Phase 1 of the renovation of the New York Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building and the expansion of the American Museum of Natural History.
Then he spent 15 months — from January 2020 through March 2021 — managing projects for a non-union steel contractor in Brooklyn, Barone Steel Fabricators. There, he worked on the structural steel work for United Construction and Development’s Skyline Tower in Long Island City, a 778-foot-tall condo tower that is currently the tallest building in Queens.
Since March, he has been a senior project manager at United Structural Works, which fabricates and installs steel, mostly for union construction projects. Hic current projects include Facebook’s new offices in the former Farley Post Office building, which include four feature stairs weighing in at 12 tons per section; the redevelopment of the Hurricane Sandy-damaged Coney Island Hospital; and Pfizer’s new 800,000-square-foot offices at The Spiral, Tishman Speyer’s 65-story office tower under construction in Hudson Yards.—R.B.R.
