A contractor based in Los Angeles has been awarded the most lucrative municipal project in New York City this year—a $2.95B deal to build one of four NYC prisons to replace the notoriously overcrowded and increasingly deadly Rikers Island detention center.

Tutor Perini was selected by the city's Department of Design and Construction to build in Brooklyn the first of four new prisons that will be part of what NYC is calling its Borough-Based Jails System.

Tutor Perini is well-known to NYC construction officials: the Los Angeles-based firm designed the AirTrain that was supposed to be built at La Guardia Airport before Gov. Kathy Hochul decided to scrap the project—with a price tag that ballooned to $2.4B—in favor of new bus routes that drop air travelers off at subway stations in Queens.