In July 2019, the States of New York and New Jersey created the Gateway Development Commission through the enactment of parallel legislation by each state and codified as the Gateway Development Commission Act (GDC Act).

The Gateway Development Commission is a public authority and a government sponsored authority with a seven-member Board of Commissioners that is empowered to facilitate and coordinate activities and encourage the actions of others to effectuate the Gateway Program, in particular, Phase 1 of the Gateway Program.

About the Commissioners

Balpreet Grewal-Virk, New Jersey Commissioner & Co-Chair

Dr. Grewal-Virk is Senior Vice President, Community Health, for RWJBarnabas Health. In this position, she develops strategic partnerships with all of the Federally Qualified Health Care Centers (FQHC’s) in the RWJBarnabas system’s service area, to increase coordination and enabling services that facilitate access to care and reduce healthcare disparities in the most vulnerable communities. In addition, Dr. Grewal-Virk is responsible for RWJBarnabas’ $25,000,000 recurring pilot grant in Newark to develop an academic health system/FQHC partnership aimed at providing highly coordinated clinical care and social determinant of health (SDOH) support to Newark residents. Previously, Dr. Grewal-Virk was Vice President for Community Outreach and Engagement, Northern Region, for Hackensack Meridian Health.

Dr. Grewal-Virk serves on a number of Boards, including the Drumthwacket Foundation, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Lower Bergen County, and the Liberty Science Center. She graduated from Seton Hall University, majoring in criminal justice, and went on to earn her Master’s in corporate and organizational culture, an MBA with a focus on marketing, and a PhD in health and medical sciences.  Dr. Grewal-Virk and her husband, Yoginder, have three children.

Alicia Glen, New York Commissioner & Co-Chair

Alicia Glen is the Founder and Managing Principal of MSquared, and is a nationally recognized expert in impact investing, urban development, infrastructure finance and housing policy. 

Alicia served as New York City Deputy Mayor from 2014-2019. During this time, she successfully implemented “Housing New York,” increasing the administration’s promise of providing affordable housing units from 200,000 to 300,000. In both 2017 and 2018, New York City broke the record for the most affordable units financed in a single year.

Twice named “Most Powerful Woman in NYC” by Crain’s, Alicia initiated large scale planning efforts at Sunnyside Yards and Governors Island, led the rezoning of the Garment District and East Midtown neighborhoods, negotiated the expansion of Google’s campus, and repositioned the City’s industrial assets to support modern manufacturing and film/TV production. One of her proudest achievements was the launch of NYC Ferry, linking emerging job centers and residential neighborhoods along the City’s reclaimed waterfront. She also started women.nyc, the first municipally sponsored platform to give women the financial and programmatic tools they need to earn money, gain power, and achieve success.

Before being appointed Deputy Mayor, Alicia was Head of the Urban Investment Group (UIG) at Goldman Sachs and co-led the firm’s 10,000 Small Businesses initiative. From 1998 to 2002, Alicia served as the Assistant Commissioner for Housing Finance for New York City where she was responsible for financing market and affordable housing, as supportive housing, tax credit and tax incentive programs.  Prior to that, Alicia practiced at two national law firms. Alicia started her legal career at Brooklyn Legal Services.

Alicia is the current Chair of the Trust for Governors Island, and Chair of women.nyc. She serves on the Boards of Common and Lex Markets. Alicia was a 2010 David Rockefeller Fellow and has also taught at Columbia Business School and the University of Pennsylvania School of Architecture, Planning and Design.

She is a graduate of Amherst College and Columbia Law School.

Tony Coscia, Amtrak Commissioner & Vice Chair

Nominated by President Barack Obama as a Director of the Amtrak Board in November 2009 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in June 2010, Mr. Coscia was elected Chairman of the Board in 2013. He has served as Vice Chairman of the Audit and Finance Committee at Amtrak since July 2011. Mr. Coscia was Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey from 2003 through June 2011. As Chairman, he had broad oversight responsibility in connection with the agency’s varied transportation businesses and $6.7 billion annual budget. From February 1992 to March 2003, Mr. Coscia served as Chairman of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority. He is also a partner at Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf, LLP. He has specific experience in the area of redevelopment finance and has worked extensively on corporate governance issues.

He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1981 and in 1984 received his J.D. degree from Rutgers University School of Law.

Jamey Barbas, New York Commissioner

Jamey Barbas, PE is the Project Director, charged with replacing the Tappan Zee Bridge in New York with the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge – one of the largest bridge projects in the US, on behalf of the New York State Thruway Authority.

A transformative senior executive with a career in the design and construction of major structures, she has held executive leadership positions in several international consulting firms. Her industry experience includes global corporate leadership with strategic and operational responsibilities. A registered professional engineer with over 35 years of experience in bridge and tunnel management, design, construction and inspection, she has special expertise on complex and long span bridges.

Barbas’ experience includes a number of award winning, domestic and international projects. She has led the inspection, design and construction support services for the reconstruction of the Williamsburg Bridge in NYC – one of the largest bridge reconstruction projects ever undertaken in the U.S. and led the design of the major bridges of the AutoRoute 30 project in Montreal, Canada – one of the largest P3 bridge projects in North America.

Barbas is a native New Yorker, graduate of Barnard College and the Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. An author of numerous technical papers, Barbas was named by Engineering News Record as one of their top Newsmakers of 2004 for her work in providing an emergency solution to a failing historic suspension bridge. She was also recognized as one of ENR’s top Newsmakers of 2020 for devising an innovative strategy that helped avert the shutdown of a New York City subway line with significant cost savings and schedule reduction.

She is a board member of the MTA (Metropolitan Transportation Authority) in New York, Commissioner of the Gateway Development Commission and has served in various organizations, such as Bridges to Prosperity, a non-profit organization that provides footbridges in rural communities to increase access to schools, health care and market. She was the Special Advisor for Infrastructure to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and a subcommittee member for cross-sector critical infrastructure security and resilience issues for of the Biden Administrations’ 2023 National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC).

Barbas is the recipient of several engineering and leadership awards, including ASCE’s John B. Jervis award and Columbia University School of Engineering’s prestigious Thomas Egleston Medal for distinguished engineering achievement.

Janine Bauer, New Jersey Commissioner

An avid bicyclist since she was five, Janine G. Bauer is now a lawyer and partner with the law firm Szaferman, Lakind, P.C., in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. She focuses her practice on environmental, land use and transportation matters in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. She is general counsel to the APA-NJ Chapter and a “grass-tops” volunteer with AARP, where she successfully lobbied NJ’s Congressional delegation to sign onto the national Complete Streets bill. From 1993-2003, Janine was the executive director of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, a leading non-profit group headquartered in New York City, where she advocated for more capital investment to create a seamless, sustainable, transit-oriented transportation network. Blending her trial lawyer skills and knowledge of transportation regulations and guidance allows Janine to opine with confidence to clients and audiences about what may, and what won’t, create risk of liability for public entities and their engineers and planners when designing Complete Streets.

Janine G. Bauer is an attorney and partner with the law firm Szaferman, Lakind, P.C., in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. She focuses her practice on environmental remediation, land use and development, and transportation and infrastructure matters in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. She is also counsel to AARP in energy and utility matters, and numerous other non-profit organizations striving to improve the quality of life for their constituents. She is a 1984 graduate of Rutgers University School of Law and clerked for the New Jersey Supreme Court; she earned her B.A. from Syracuse University. Janine was a prosecutor from 1991-1993 in Mercer County, N.J.  Janine served in municipal and county elected and appointed offices from 1999- 2018, and also was appointed to CEQ’s NEPA Streamlining Task Force. From 1993-2003, Janine was the executive director of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, a leading non-profit group headquartered in New York City, where she advocated for more capital investment in the region to create a seamless, sustainable, transit-oriented transportation network, and a “fix it first” approach to repairing existing infrastructure. Blending her trial lawyer skills and knowledge of transportation regulations and guidance allows Janine to opine with confidence to clients and audiences about what may, and what will not, create risk of liability for public entities and their engineers and planners when designing and executing capital projects.

Marie Therese Dominguez, New York Commissioner

Marie Therese Dominguez was unanimously confirmed as New York State’s Transportation Commissioner on June 20, 2019.  

Ms. Dominguez has worked in the transportation, water and energy infrastructure, safety and logistics sectors for over 25 years, having served in numerous leadership positions within the Federal government and private sector. In 2015, she was nominated by President Obama and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as Administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) at the U.S. Department of Transportation.

At PHMSA, Ms. Dominguez managed the development and enforcement of safety regulations and oversaw safety operations for the nation’s interstate gas and liquid pipelines as well as all hazardous materials shipments by rail, highway, sea, and air. Prior to leading PHMSA, she served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works at the U.S. Department of Defense. She has served as Vice President for Government Relations and Public Policy at the United States Postal Service, where she led legislative and public policy initiatives for the country’s then, second largest civilian employer.

She has served as Deputy Chief of Staff and Counsel at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA); Special Assistant to the Chairman at the National Transportation Safety Board and as a Special Assistant to President Clinton and Associate Director of Presidential Personnel in the White House.

For the last few years, Ms. Dominguez served as a member of the Virginia Aviation Board overseeing the policy, programs, and funding for all 66 airports in the state of Virginia and as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy.

Ms. Dominguez obtained her J.D. from Villanova University School of Law and her B.A. in American Studies from Smith College.

Amy Rosen, New Jersey Commissioner

Amy Rosen is an entrepreneurial and purpose-driven executive with a demonstrated track record in leading and advising private, public, and not-for-profit organizations through transformational change. She currently serves on several public and private Boards. She is adept in all facets of enterprise management, with deep knowledge of the transportation and education sectors, and expertise in start-ups focused on technology, youth employment, and upskilling.

Amy spent nearly two decades in the transportation field as a leader of urban transit systems and railroads and as an advocate for national investment in transportation infrastructure. Her experience managing a state transportation department, leading the New Jersey Transit Board of Directors, serving as a two-term Presidential Appointee to the Amtrak Board of Directors, and working as a Senior Vice President of Lockheed Martin earned her a national reputation as a change agent in this field. Public recognition of her work includes induction into the NJ Transit Hall of Fame and being named Board Member of the Year by the American Public Transportation Association.

Amy is also a recognized expert on youth employment, the future of work, and the challenges of K-12 systems. She has advised and led mission-driven companies, NGOs, school districts, and state government. She is passionate about the need to provide all young people with the tools to be successful and is an advocate of entrepreneurship. Comfortable with public leadership roles, Amy has served as a Presidential Appointee for three U.S. Presidents and as an advisor to many local and national leaders around the globe. Amy is also a lecturer, author, and public speaker.

About the Chief Executive Officer

Thomas F. Prendergast

Thomas Prendergast has decades of public and private sector experience directing major infrastructure projects and large, complex transportation systems in the United States and internationally. Having led the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), the largest transportation agency in North America, Tom is a top expert on billion-dollar capital programs, strategic planning, and public transportation policy.

Tom previously served as Executive Vice President and New York Metro Chief Executive at AECOM. He oversaw design and consulting services across all business lines in New York and New Jersey, including transportation, water and wastewater, environment, power, and buildings and places, which encompassed more than 1,300 architects, engineers, scientists, and other support staff.

Tom’s substantial experience directing large public agencies includes four years as MTA Chair and CEO. At MTA, Tom was instrumental in securing a five-year capital plan to modernize New York’s public transportation systems, including the Second Avenue Subway and East Side Access megaprojects. He is recognized for his leadership in restoring service to the subway system after Hurricane Sandy and implementing critical rehabilitation and flood resiliency efforts.

During his tenure at MTA, Tom served in several other senior leadership roles, including six years as Long Island Railroad (LIRR) President, where he oversaw the largest commuter railroad in the United States, and more than three years as New York City Transit President, where he was responsible for operations, maintenance, and capital improvement for the city’s subways, buses, and paratransit.

Internationally, Tom led the public transportation system in Vancouver as CEO of the South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority (TransLink). He directed public transportation for the largest service area in all of Canada and successfully prepared the multimodal transportation network for the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Tom holds a Bachelor of Science in Socio-Technological Systems Engineering, Urban Transportation Systems from the University of Illinois, and is a graduate of the Harvard Program for State and Local Government Executives. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Regional Plan Association and the Eno Center for Transportation.


Key Policies and Documents

Annual Reports

2024 GDC Annual Report

2023 GDC Annual Report

2022 GDC Annual Report

2021 GDC Annual Report

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