The McKissack Group, Inc.
Lobbying client
A construction management and program management firm, doing business as McKissack & McKissack, billed as the oldest Black-owned architecture and construction company in the country, tracing to 1905 in Nashville and headquartered in Manhattan since 2002. Its New York City public work has included a construction management retainer for the city's Economic Development Corporation covering the Hunts Point and Fulton Fish markets, MART125, and Pier 42. It filed 5 lobbying disclosures in 2024 through Davidoff Hutcher & Citron seeking city contracts, though it reported lobbying no individual council member.
- Council members lobbied
- None named (agencies/administration)
- Filings (since 2024)
- 5
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $50,000
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Professional Services
- City contracts (active)
- $25,227,321 · 9 contracts
- Awarded all-time
- $77,154,229 · 18 since 2017, incl. expired
- Paid to date
- $16,259,687
- Won without a fresh bid
- 19% of contract value · $14,750,000 · 3 contracts
- Based in
- New York, NY
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- Department of Design and Construction City agency
Funded by these agencies
- Department of Citywide Administrative Services City agency
- Department of Design and Construction City agency
- Department of Environmental Protection City agency
- Department of Homeless Services City agency
- Department of Small Business Services City agency
- Fire Department City agency
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Procurement - Seeking contracts
City contracts
Registered city contracts, largest first by current contract value (not amount spent): running now, then registered to start later, then ended. Totals count every registered contract. Each line shows its Checkbook contract ID. The tag on each row is how it was awarded (“no-bid” = non-competitive).
- RQCM_MED, Renewal of Requirement Contract for CM Services fo Department of Design and Construction · MMA185020268804183 $5,000,000
- CM Services for EMS17 station Department of Design and Construction · CTA185020227200481 $4,072,676
- Construction Management Services Department of Design and Construction · CTA185020268802267 $3,543,714
- Construction Management Services Department of Design and Construction · CTA185020278801388 $2,636,737
- Construction Management Services Department of Design and Construction · CTA185020258808157 $2,374,205
- CM Services Department of Design and Construction · CTA185020258804996 $2,299,427
- Construction Management Services Department of Design and Construction · CTA185020278801593 $2,170,901
- CM SERVICES FOR BORO HALL ,QNS Department of Design and Construction · CTA185020217207441 $2,048,898
- Construction Management Services Department of Design and Construction · CTA185020258806966 $1,080,764
- Requirements Contracts for CM Services for Medium Projects Department of Design and Construction · MMA185020238803348 · ended 2026 $15,000,000
Largest payments, by purpose
The organization's largest individual city payments (roughly $25,000 and up), grouped by purpose, to show what recent money was for. This is NOT a total — smaller payments aren't listed; see “Paid to date” above for the complete amount paid against its contracts. Fiscal years 2020 and later.
- CM Services for EMS17 station Fire Department · FY2026 · 5 payments $947,957
- CM Services for EMS17 station Fire Department · FY2025 · 5 payments $793,440
- CM SERVICES FOR NEWTOWN CREEK NATURE WALK PH2 Department of Environmental Protection · FY2020 · 11 payments $711,119
- to provide DDC Mentoring Program Services to MWBE's Department of Small Business Services · FY2024 · 4 payments $610,575
- CM Services for City Hall Steps Department of Citywide Administrative Services · FY2024 · 6 payments $593,809
- CM SERVICES FOR BORO HALL ,QNS Department of Citywide Administrative Services · FY2023 · 9 payments $556,784
- Construction Management Services for Newtown Creek Naturewal Department of Environmental Protection · FY2021 · 9 payments $535,536
- Construction Management Services Department of Homeless Services · FY2026 · 2 payments $523,308
- CM SERVICES FOR BORO HALL ,QNS Department of Citywide Administrative Services · FY2024 · 6 payments $474,211
- CM SERVICES FOR BORO HALL ,QNS Department of Citywide Administrative Services · FY2022 · 6 payments $292,080
- CM SERVICES FOR BORO HALL ,QNS Department of Citywide Administrative Services · FY2025 · 3 payments $234,401
- CM Services for City Hall Steps Department of Citywide Administrative Services · FY2025 $224,951
- Program and Program Management Support Service Department of Design and Construction · FY2022 $198,612
- Program and Program Management Support Service Department of Design and Construction · FY2024 $177,848
- to provide DDC Mentoring Program Services to MWBE's Department of Small Business Services · FY2025 · 3 payments $171,025
- CM SERVICES FOR NEWTOWN CREEK NATURE WALK PH2 Department of Environmental Protection · FY2022 $170,088
- CM Services for EMS17 station Fire Department · FY2022 · 4 payments $161,552
- Construction Management Services Department of Homeless Services · FY2027 $158,670
- Direct site assessments, the evalutaion of each alternatives' implementability, and minority-owned business (MBE) strategies. Department of Environmental Protection · FY2025 $143,001
- CM Services for City Hall Steps Department of Citywide Administrative Services · FY2026 · 2 payments $124,922
Federal awards
Federal awards made directly to this organization in fiscal years 2023 through 2026. Each amount is what the federal government has OBLIGATED on that award as recorded on USAspending.gov as of 2026-08-31 — money committed, not money paid out. These are prime awards only: federal money this
- Department of Transportation SUPPORT- PROFESSIONAL: PROGRAM MANAGEMENT/SUPPORT · Federal Transit Administration · Contract $1,978,061