Bruce Ratner, Atlantic City Yards Project Developer, began exploring modular construction during the recession in 2010 as a way to make good on his promise to use union labor, deliver good architecture and earmark at least 30 percent of the proposed 6,430 units for low- and moderate-income tenants. Half of the 363 apartments in the first building will be for poor and working-class families. “Modular promises higher quality, greener construction, faster delivery time and lower costs,” said Thomas Hanrahan, Dean of Pratt Institute’s architecture school in Brooklyn.
